Fullstack Job: Software Engineer (Fullstack)

About Vibrant Planet

We are a team of leaders in science, forestry, policy, and tech, building a cloud-based, data-driven platform to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and reduce catastrophic wildfire, tree mortality, forest degradation, and deforestation. Our current software modernizes land management planning and monitoring with AI-driven data development, user friendly scenario building and decision support, and forest resilience trends and treatment outcome detection. The system quantifies potential and actual treatment benefits, helping to grow markets for ecosystem services (carbon, water, biodiversity, sustainable forest-derived products).

Our initial platform (launched in September 2021) is focused on temperate, “fire adapted” landscapes in California and the Western US. Our mission is global; our roadmap expands into other geographies and forest types accordingly.

Driven by our sense of urgency to protect vital forests and the services they provide, we use our expertise to build sophisticated, AI/ML-driven, user friendly products to democratize the use of data and accelerate the process of stabilizing and restoring our forests.

Vibrant Planet is backed by climate and ecosystem resilience solutions leaders, including Grantham Foundation, Earthshot, Elemental Excelerator, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Chris Cox (CPO at FB), Neil Hunt (ex CPO of Netflix), Cisco, Valia Ventures, and Halogen Ventures.

For further information please visit: VibrantPlanet.net

Equal Opportunity Employer: Vibrant Planet is committed to diversity. We encourage applicants from all cultures, races, colors, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, or other status protected by law to apply.

We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may come from a less traditional background, but have capacity to grow into and thrive in the position after some mentoring. We do not require that you have experience with every job description task. We will consider any equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet minimum qualifications. We encourage each candidate to think broadly about their unique background and skill set and how it may relate to the role. This is important to us. We aren’t just saying this, we mean it.

For further information please visit: https://vibrantplanet.net

About the Role

We are looking for a versatile, hands-on full stack engineer to help us scale and build our core product. You will be part of a small team of engineers and scientists, tackling some of the most important climate change related issues facing the world today. This is a remote role (and company) so being comfortable and effective working in a distributed team is crucial.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, scale, and maintain the core applications, and associated algorithms, databases etc.

• Optimize application performance and cost efficiency by leveraging cloud-based technologies and services.

• Collaborate with engineers, scientists and other stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise.

• Lead and participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing, and production release.

• Contribute to our evolving engineering culture, standards, tooling, and processes.

• Mentor and support other engineers and deeply review code.

Technical Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skill set.

• 2+ years experience in data engineering or a related field.

• Experience with full stack application frameworks (e.g. React/JS, Ruby on Rails, Flask, Elixir/Phoenix).

• Proficiency with a programming language such as Python or an equivalent.

• Familiarity with cloud based environments like AWS, Azure, GCP

• Ability to write clean, high-quality code and tests to keep our system fast, reliable, and monitorable.

Bonus Qualifications - Absolutely not required, but nice to have

• Elixir/Phoenix

• Postgres/Postgis

• Airflow

• Geospatial processing

Other Expectations:

• Strong communication skills; discussing complex technical concepts to engineers and non-engineers is no problem to you.

• Collaborative and supportive team player, with a desire to enrich our engineering culture.

• Eagerness to learn, think creatively, and share knowledge with others.

• Ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.

• Proactive and empathetic mindset - you love to roll up your sleeves to fix problems

Location - We are a remote first company with the majority of the team in the US west coast time zone. We also have a small and growing presence in New Zealand. Location can be flexible, but we are primarily targeting those two time zones and anything in between.