Full-Stack Weather Software Engineer

Spire; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 130,500 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education Assistance Program

Generous Time Off Policy

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Reimbursement

Job summary

Spire in Boulder, Colorado, is seeking a Full-Stack Weather Software Engineer to design and build operational weather products leveraging AI and advanced forecasting models. This role involves developing customer-facing dashboards and collaborating across teams to ensure product deployment.

Qualified candidates will have a strong frontend skillset with React and TypeScript, cloud engineering experience, and a background in weather models. Spire offers a hybrid working model with weekly office attendance required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production software with a strong frontend track record.
• Strong knowledge of weather models including NWP and AI forecasters.
• Fluency with data coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex.

Responsibilities

• Design and build customer-facing dashboards.
• Own the full stack: React on frontend, Python services on backend.
• Collaborate to build operational weather products.

Skills

Frontend skills: React, TypeScript

Cloud engineering (AWS, Docker)

Knowledge of weather models

Production software deployment

Tools

Vite

Next.js

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

About Spire

Spire Global runs the world’s largest multi-purpose satellite constellation, streaming real-time weather and Earth‑observation data. Our Weather division fuses AI and NWP forecasts, initialized with Spire’s proprietary observational data, to build mission‑critical products for customers across energy trading, utilities, agriculture, and other industries. As a Full‑Stack Weather Software Engineer, you’ll work with our weather model output to build and deploy customer products and the frontend systems they are delivered through.

The Role

This role sits at the intersection of weather science, geophysical sensing, cloud engineering, and modern AI tooling, building operational products that customers depend on every day. We’re looking for engineers who combine strong frontend skills, weather domain knowledge, and effective use of modern AI tooling.

Responsibilities

• Frontend & UX: Design and build the customer‑facing dashboards and applications that present forecasts, NWP outputs, and AI model outputs through interactive maps, time‑series views, comparisons, and alerts.
• Full Stack & Delivery: Own the full vertical slice: React/TypeScript on the frontend, Python services and APIs on the backend, AWS infrastructure underneath. Take work from prototype to production: deploy, monitor, and iterate.
• Customer Products: Build and deploy operational weather products from model output for customers in energy trading, utilities, agriculture, and other industries. Collaborate with scientists, designers, and product managers to bring research and model output into production products.

Basic Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years building production software, with a strong frontend track record and experience deploying and operating production systems.
• Strong frontend skills: React, TypeScript, modern build tooling (Vite, Next.js, or similar), and a clear sense of UX for data‑dense interfaces.
• Comfort across the stack and cloud: Python services, REST/GraphQL APIs, containerization, CI/CD, and AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, Step Functions), Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of weather models—both NWP (GFS, ECMWF, HRRR, WRF) and modern AI forecasters (GraphCast, Pangu‑Weather, FourCastNet, AIFS)—and the major observational data sources (satellite, radar, surface, radio occultation).
• Strong working knowledge of the software stack for weather and geophysical data: GRIB2, NetCDF, Zarr, and the Pangeo ecosystem (xarray, Dask). Communicate fluently with scientists.
• Day‑to‑day fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex. Able to explain their use, what you delegate, and where they fit in your workflow.

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export‑controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying.

Salary & Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $130,500 USD – $171,000 USD.
• Eligible for commissions and annual equity awards.
• Employee benefits program, including vacation, sick, and personal time off; optional medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage; a 401(K) plan; health and wellness reimbursement program; and participation in Spire’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Global Perks

• Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)
• Launch Attendance
• Generous Time Off Policy
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Family Leave
• Fitness Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Program
• Healthy snacks & beverages in every office

Equal Opportunity & Background Check

Spire is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills, and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

To help maintain a safe and secure workplace for Spire employees, all candidates who receive a conditional offer will be required to complete a background check. This may include criminal history and employment verification.