Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Enabled Climate Tech

Remedy Scientific Inc.; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Job summary

Remedy Scientific Inc. in Oakland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build Remedy’s core product systems.

This backend-focused, full-stack role emphasizes services, APIs, data models, and data processing workflows, while delivering complete product interfaces end-to-end. You will collaborate with the Software Engineering Lead and cross-functional teams, owning requirements, design, deployment, and iterative improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of strong technical judgment and independent ownership.
• Significant experience designing, building, and operating backend systems in production
• Strong production experience with TypeScript, Python, or another modern language used to build web applications and backend services, with the ability to become productive quickly in a TypeScript-first codebase
• Experience designing APIs, relational data models, and data processing workflows that preserve data quality and behave reliably under real-world conditions
• Experience building and maintaining frontend features and user interfaces for production web applications, using React or a similar framework
• Strong software design fundamentals, including system boundaries, failure modes, testing strategies, maintainability, and performance tradeoffs
• Experience deploying and operating software in a cloud environment such as GCP or AWS
• Demonstrated judgment in making pragmatic tradeoffs among delivery speed, reliability, maintainability, and the long‑term health of the codebase
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a small, cross‑functional team

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, data models, and data processing workflows that power Remedy’s core product capabilities
• Build and maintain the frontend features and user interfaces that bring those capabilities to users, delivering complete product workflows across the stack
• Own product and engineering problems from discovery through design, implementation, deployment, and iteration
• Collaborate with scientific, product, and operational teammates to understand real-world workflows, identify underlying needs, and develop effective solutions
• Investigate complex and evolving problems, identify requirements, risks, and edge cases, and translate them into clear technical approaches
• Contribute well-reasoned proposals to technical design discussions, evaluate alternatives, and collaborate with the team to refine solutions
• Partner with the Software Engineering Lead to shape and evolve system architecture as requirements change
• Build systems that transform documents, laboratory results, field data, and operational data into structured and reliable outputs
• Integrate applied AI capabilities such as document extraction, retrieval, and report generation into reliable product features
• Write clear, tested, and maintainable code, and conduct thoughtful code reviews that improve code quality and share technical context across the team
• Balance delivery speed with reliability, maintainability, and the long‑term health of the codebase
• Help improve engineering practices around testing, deployment, observability, documentation, and system reliability

Skills

TypeScript

Python

APIs

React

Cloud deployment

Data processing

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Remedy Scientific Inc. in Oakland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build Remedy’s core product systems.

This backend-focused, full-stack role emphasizes services, APIs, data models, and data processing workflows, while delivering complete product interfaces end-to-end. You will collaborate with the Software Engineering Lead and cross-functional teams, owning requirements, design, deployment, and iterative improvements.