Back End Data Infrastructure Engineer
Terranova
Back End Data Infrastructure Engineer
Terranova
Sequesters CO2 with underground wood chips
Company Description
Backed by leading climate and American dynamism investors, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods and sea-level rise.
Our mission is to preserve the built environment, create new habitats, and usher in an era of abundance. Our work supports climate resilience, disaster recovery, and defense across the United States and beyond.
We’re assembling a world-class team that wants to work on something real, physical, and civilization-scale. If you want your work to reshape the world (literally), this is the place to do it.
What to to Expect
We are looking for a full-stack engineer who can design and maintain modern, scalable applications while owning our cloud and infrastructure layer. You’ll build responsive user interfaces, develop backend APIs, and architect deployments that can scale globally. OAuth/OIDC. You’ll thrive if you’ve worked on platform or infra teams (Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS) or as a product engineer at performance-oriented orgs (Stripe, Notion, etc.). Check out plan.terranova.inc for an idea of some of the web dev stuff you'll need to develop.
What You’ll Do
Design and implement performant, maintainable web apps using TypeScript, React/Next.js, and Node/FastAPI/Go.
Build and operate distributed backends with Postgres, Redis, and task queues.
Manage infrastructure-as-code deployments (Terraform/CDK) on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Implement CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and incident-response workflows.
Collaborate with product and robotics teams to integrate data, telemetry, and control interfaces.
Build customer facing and internal tools
Full stack application development
Comfortable with the pace and intensity of early-stage startup life, including long days, and 6-day workweeks
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
U.S. permanent residency required
Preferred Skills and Experience
TypeScript
React/Next.js
Node/FastAPI/Go
Postgres/Redis/queues
Terraform/CDK
GitHub Actions/Argo
OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Sentry
iOS and Android app development
Terranova provides carbon credits by sequestering carbon in the ground using underground wood chips to raise land and prevent inundation of plots and structures. The wood chips method works by distributing and burying wood chips underground, offering a low-cost way to elevate land and capture CO2 in trees and soil; the credits are sold through their website. The company differentiates itself through a low-cost, scalable approach to elevation compared with traditional methods and by tying forest-management incentives to chip-based sequestration, including encouraging removal of dead trees to prevent future fires that would release CO2. The goal is to build a market for wood chips that incentivizes local forest stewardship and CO2 sequestration, encapsulated in the motto “Think Globally, Sequester Locally.”
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