Remote Staff Software Engineer — Enterprise Cloud Solutions

Western Climate Initiative, Inc.; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Climate Initiative, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive end-to-end software solutions across frontend and backend, with emphasis on reliability and security. You will influence product direction, lead design reviews, and ensure performance at scale.

You will work with NodeJS, Typescript, React, and cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), building both microservices and modular APIs while mentoring teammates and promoting best practices across teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years in architecture and design.
• 5+ years with AWS, GCP, Azure or another cloud service.
• Experience in React and modern UI frameworks.
• Proficiency in microservice and monolithic architectures.
• Experience with REST APIs, OAuth/SAML/RBAC patterns, and serverless.
• Strong DevOps, IaC, testing, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own complete solutions across their life cycle.
• Influence and build product vision with managers and customers.
• Ensure quality, usability, and performance of solutions.
• Lead design sessions and code reviews to raise engineering quality.
• Work across NodeJS, Typescript, SQL/NoSQL, and AWS services.
• Mentor junior team members and share best practices.
• Help design scalable, reliable architectures for new and legacy systems.

Skills

NodeJS

Typescript

React

Microservices

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Security concepts

OO/FP design

Tools

AWS Lambda

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Western Climate Initiative, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive end-to-end software solutions across frontend and backend, with emphasis on reliability and security. You will influence product direction, lead design reviews, and ensure performance at scale.

You will work with NodeJS, Typescript, React, and cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), building both microservices and modular APIs while mentoring teammates and promoting best practices across teams.