Software engineer, full-stack

Transition Ventures; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Mental health programs

Job summary

Watershed, a climate data platform with offices in multiple cities, is hiring a software engineer to ship customer‑facing features and build data visualizations and APIs for emissions data. You will work on a frontend/backend stack centered on React, TypeScript, CSS, and Node.js, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver product outcomes that customers love.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering, customer interaction, and mastering climate domain knowledge, with hybrid in‑office

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering industry experience, preferably in Node.js web development or data pipelines.
• Experience building scalable software starting from user needs.
• Excited to join a startup and help evolve a growing engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Build new interactive data visualizations to help climate leads understand their company's emissions.
• Build APIs to unify carbon data access for customers and other engineers.
• Build tools that help financial institutions measure and report emissions across their portfolio companies.
• Ship code to production on day one; collaborate with product, design, climate science, and data science to iterate on software that helps our customers understand their climate data.

Skills

Node.js web development

Data pipelines

React

TypeScript

CSS

Job description

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

TechEngineering

Compensation

• $166.5K – $210K

At Watershed, we strive to design consistent, fair, and competitive compensation programs. The total cash compensation range may be inclusive of several levels at Watershed and final offer will be determined by a number of factors, including the candidate’s skills, capabilities, and location, as well as scope of the role.

The anticipated cash compensation range is in addition to a total rewards benefit package including equity, health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility, and mental health programs, etc.

About Watershed

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.

We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!

The role

We are looking for a team member who is excited to do everything involved in shipping great products, including hands‑on engineering, talking with customers, and mastering the climate domain. Your past experience should include a track record of building things that users love.

Watershed’s technical stack is the web frontend that our customers use, together with a backend of climate data, climate models, and plug‑ins to various financial systems. We build new products in a customer‑first way so you’ll be working quite a bit in React, TypeScript, CSS, Node.js, etc. There’s no need to be a prior expert in our stack — it’s more important that you’re good at picking up technologies quickly.

Some traits that are important to our company culture: customer‑obsessed, outcome‑oriented, and inclusive. And we’re looking for owners, so we hope you’ll help us evolve this list.

What You Could Work On

• Build new interactive data visualizations to help climate leads understand their company's emissions.
• Build APIs to unify carbon data access for customers and other engineers.
• Build tools that help financial institutions measure and report emissions across their portfolio companies.
• Build tools for customers to effectively ingest and interpret business data.

You Will

• Ship code to production on day one
• Collaborate with product, design, climate science, and data science to build and iterate on software that helps our customers understand their climate data

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have 4+ years of software engineering industry experience, preferably in Node.js web development or data pipelines
• Have experience building scalable software starting from user needs
• Are excited to join a startup and are ready to help evolve a growing engineering team

Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so.

What’s the interview process like

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience interview (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

What if I need accommodations for my interview

At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long‑term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy‑related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.

Compensation Range: $166.5K - $210K

What You Could Work On

• Build new interactive data visualizations to help climate leads understand their company's emissions.
• Build APIs to unify carbon data access for customers and other engineers.
• Build tools that help financial institutions measure and report emissions across their portfolio companies.
• Build tools for customers to effectively ingest and interpret business data.

You Will

• Ship code to production on day one
• Collaborate with product, design, climate science, and data science to build and iterate on software that helps our customers understand their climate data

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have 4+ years of software engineering industry experience, preferably in Node.js web development or data pipelines
• Have experience building scalable software starting from user needs
• Are excited to join a startup and are ready to help evolve a growing engineering team

Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so.

What’s the interview process like

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience interview (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

What if I need accommodations for my interview

At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long‑term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy‑related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.

Compensation Range: $166.5K - $210K

What You Could Work On

• Build new interactive data visualizations to help climate leads understand their company's emissions.
• Build APIs to unify carbon data access for customers and other engineers.
• Build tools that help financial institutions measure and report emissions across their portfolio companies.
• Build tools for customers to effectively ingest and interpret business data.

You Will

• Ship code to production on day one
• Collaborate with product, design, climate science, and data science to build and iterate on software that helps our customers understand their climate data

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have 4+ years of software engineering industry experience, preferably in Node.js web development or data pipelines
• Have experience building scalable software starting from user needs
• Are excited to join a startup and are ready to help evolve a growing engineering team

Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so.

What’s the interview process like

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience interview (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

What if I need accommodations for my interview

At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long‑term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy‑related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.

Compensation Range: $166.5K - $210K