Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Lithos Carbon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive health coverage

401k plan access

Unlimited PTO and sick days

Job summary

An innovative environmental technology firm in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop an interconnected platform aimed at optimizing carbon dioxide removal efforts. The ideal candidate will have extensive full-stack development experience and excel in ambiguous environments. This role offers a competitive salary and meaningful equity compensation in a mission-driven company.

Qualifications

• Experience building apps for non-technical power users in a fast-paced environment.
• Fluency in modern web development across the full stack.
• Excellent communication skills and comfortable in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to balance resourceful solutions while identifying tech debt areas.

Responsibilities

• Develop interactive geospatial tools for mapping and analysis.
• Create automated workflows for digitizing maps and records.
• Build pipelines for converting and analyzing data logs.
• Manage laboratory information systems for field samples.

Skills

Full-stack development

Excellent communication skills

Experience in ambiguous environments

Web development technologies (React, Typescript)

Tools

Postgres/PostGIS

SQL

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer at Lithos, you'll work directly with our Head of Engineering to build the operating system for one of the largest carbon dioxide removal efforts in history.

How does software play a role? Carbon removal is a mass transfer problem. We need to create an entirely new industry capable of removing tens of billions of tons of CO2 — the same order of magnitude as humanity's entire global production of food, or concrete, and to do all this within the next decade.

At Lithos, we're building the operating system to plan, orchestrate, track, and optimize enhanced rock weathering. You''ll combine deep full-stack technical skills with empathy and design thinking to build and scale our interconnected platform.

Base pay range

$140,000.00/yr - $180,000.00/yr

Responsibilities

• Interactive geospatial tools for mapping, analysis, and optimization
• Creative automated and human-in-the-loop workflows for digitizing PDF maps and records
• Pipelines for ingesting, converting, and analyzing raw data logs from agricultural machinery
• Audit-ready representation, tracking and reconciliation of an array of real-world activities
• Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) for tens of thousands of field samples

Qualifications

• You have experience building apps for non-technical power users in a fast-paced, early-stage environment. We''re flexible on your background, but candidates without mid-senior engineering experience are not likely to be a fit
• You are fluent in modern web development across the full stack and have experience with technologies similar to our current stack (React, Typescript, Phoenix and LiveView, and Postgres/PostGIS/SQL). We expect successful candidates will be able to rapidly pick up a new language or technology from first principles rather than look for YoE in a particular language or tool
• You have excellent communication skills and are comfortable operating in a highly ambiguous environment. You''re capable of operating independently and are able to scope your work and collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to achieve business goals without tight supervision
• You are comfortable balancing scrappy and relentlessly resourceful solutions while recognizing key areas for longer-term investment. You have an opinion for when to take on tech debt and when to pay it down

Benefits

• Competitive salary (the posted salary range for this role is $140,000 USD - $180,000 USD, depending on experience) and meaningful equity compensation
• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
• Access to our 401k plan
• Unlimited PTO and sick days

Lithos provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Location

San Francisco, CA