Remote Lead Real-Time Weather Backend Engineer

AccuWeather, Inc.; State College (Centre County); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AccuWeather, Inc. in State College, PA or remote is seeking a Software Developer III to own real-time backend data processing systems for alerts, observations, and AccuWeather Alerts.

You will lead design and development of backend software powering consumer and enterprise products, mentor engineers, and drive reliability and scalability across cloud platforms. You will collaborate with data operations, product managers, and stakeholders in an Agile environment to deliver end-to-end processing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5 years of experience designing and developing backend software or distributed systems.
• Advanced experience with Scala or Java, including functional programming concepts.
• Cloud deployments in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Deep experience with relational database architecture, schema design, SQL, and performance at scale.
• Experience with structured and semi-structured data formats (XML, JSON) and RESTful APIs across multiple providers.
• Experience leading design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Preferred: event-driven/distributed or message-based systems; weather/environment data experience; API integrations; MS SQL Server; Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex backend software processors that ingest, validate, transform, and distribute real-time weather data.
• Own end-to-end backend data flows from source system through validation to production database, including monitoring and incident response.
• Design and implement new processing capabilities and enhance existing processors for new providers, formats, and features.
• Build data processing software that’s easily tested, deployed, and monitored.
• Own design and implementation of database schemas and supporting SQL objects used by backend processing apps.
• Define reliability, performance, and scalability bar for backend processing software and ensure compliance.
• Drive technical alignment across engineers, data ops, product managers, and stakeholders.

Skills

Scala/Java

Cloud platforms

Relational databases

SQL optimization

RESTful APIs

Code reviews/mentoring

Functional programming

Data processing

Education

Bachelor’s or Masters in CS/Software Engineering/IT

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

AccuWeather, Inc. in State College, PA or remote is seeking a Software Developer III to own real-time backend data processing systems for alerts, observations, and AccuWeather Alerts.

You will lead design and development of backend software powering consumer and enterprise products, mentor engineers, and drive reliability and scalability across cloud platforms. You will collaborate with data operations, product managers, and stakeholders in an Agile environment to deliver end-to-end processing