Software Engineer, Geospatial Data

Senior Software Engineer, Geospatial Data

Remote:
United States | Canada | United Kingdom | The Netherlands | Denmark | Estonia | France | Ireland | Portugal | Sweden | Switzerland

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting‑edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. Our team works with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re a diverse, mission‑driven group committed to solving complex problems.

As a Senior Engineer, you will have a direct impact on the development of core geospatial products and internal data‑processing and annotation tools ’ll set the technical vision for web applications, ETL pipelines, and backend services, partnering with product managers, external resources, and your team members.

Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and North America (NST, AST, EST, CST, MST, PST)

• Explore best practices to combine coding agents with software craftsmanship and teach other engineers these practices
• Optimize the orchestration of several object detection and image‑alignment models
• Design and maintain robust data and feature pipelines for millions of geospatial entities
• Contribute to the technical vision for the development of our internal annotation and QA web applications
• Work closely with your Product Manager to discover and propose new products to solve use cases such as anticipating the impact of an outage at a particular location

• You love working in a remote‑first, fast‑moving environment where collaboration and adaptability are essential
• 5+ years of experience as a senior software engineer
• Skilled in designing ETL pipelines with near‑real‑time orchestration, in Python
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable web‑applications with React
  , FastAPI
  , PostgreSQL
• Experience with XP practices such as TDD or trunk‑based development
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to various audiences

• Experience with the geospatial ecosystem such as PostGIS, Geopandas or Deck.
  
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• Experience with Dagster, Airflow or similar orchestration frameworks
• Experience building web‑applications tailored for repeatable human or agentic workflows
• Experience working in B2B, in particular with electrical utilities

• To be part of truly mission‑driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance, and respect
• Equity and a competitive salary

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

Our leadership team is 4 out of 9 female and 46% of the overall team is female, 20% are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages.

Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission

We act with urgency

Our curiosity fuels our growth

We’re rooted in diversity

We care for each other

Trust is fundamental