Full-Time

Senior Backend Engineer

Remote

Posted on 6/28/2024

Pachama

Pachama

51-200 employees

Forest conservation and carbon offset marketplace

Social Impact
AI & Machine Learning

Compensation Overview

$106.2k - $168.5kAnnually

Senior

Remote in USA

Preferred to be within 3 hours of Pacific time.

Category
Backend Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Python
Heroku
React.js
Postgres
TypeScript
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • Strong software engineering practices, with a background in Python, Postgres / PostGIS, and GraphQL, and some knowledge of front-end frameworks such as React / Typescript.
  • Experience building scalable APIs and other system architecture using GCP, Heroku, or other cloud infrastructure and containerization tools such as Kubernetes.
  • Experience leading large cross-team engineering efforts with a bias toward collaboration, transparency, great documentation, and clean, elegant, and pragmatic code.
  • You don’t necessarily call yourself a full-stack engineer, but you have supported frameworks like React/Typescript and obsess over usability and the user experience.
  • Comfort with fast-paced execution and rapid iteration in a startup environment.
  • Passion for environmental sustainability and a desire to make a meaningful impact on the planet.
Responsibilities
  • Empower our interdisciplinary teams and customers to derive insights needed to originate and compare high-quality nature-based projects from our multi-TB datasets by building the systems which give access to our innovative geospatial and remote sensing technologies.
  • Lead cross-functional projects and connect product value across teams with core design and technologies. Develop and implement strategies and vision for our products and systems.
  • Mentor teammates to raise the bar across engineering teams, enabling step-level increases in efficiency.
  • Code the systems and tools that enable all engineering and science teams to produce high-quality insights for forest carbon projects, optimizing and simplifying our infrastructure to run as efficiently as possible across large amounts of data.

Pachama focuses on forest conservation and carbon offsetting to address climate change and support biodiversity. The company provides a platform for individuals and organizations to offset their carbon footprints by purchasing carbon credits from partnered forest projects worldwide. Using remote sensing technology, Pachama monitors forests to create accurate models that measure carbon storage, ensuring transparency and reliability in their projects. Their clients include both individuals and large corporations aiming for net-zero emissions. Recently, Pachama introduced an AI-based tool to evaluate forest carbon projects, enhancing the quality of the carbon market and establishing itself as a trusted partner for brands committed to environmental sustainability.

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$85.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2018

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-6%

1 year growth

-17%

2 year growth

-2%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Growing corporate commitments to net-zero emissions boost demand for Pachama's solutions.
  • Partnerships with firms like Shopify enhance Pachama's reforestation project credibility.
  • Advancements in satellite technology improve Pachama's forest monitoring accuracy.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from AI-driven platforms may reduce Pachama's market share.
  • Changes in satellite data access policies could affect Pachama's operations.
  • Evolving carbon credit regulations may impose new compliance costs on Pachama.

What makes Pachama unique

  • Pachama uses AI and satellite data for precise forest carbon measurement.
  • The company offers a marketplace for carbon credits and project impact tracking.
  • Pachama's AI-based tool enhances transparency in evaluating forest carbon projects.

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