Staff software engineer, AI product

About the role

We’re seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to join the Product Footprints team. You’ll be a leader in building new 0 → 1 products and scaling them, tackling large and ambiguous challenges across technical systems and product engineering. You’ll work side-by-side with product managers, AI engineers, and climate scientists.

Responsibilities

• Build new products and features for Watershed’s biggest customers and most complex use cases.
• Recent examples include:
• A sandboxed agentic workflow that translates emissions reductions scenarios from natural language into repeatable data transformations.
• A full-stack application to manage supply chain data, including data upload, AI model orchestration, and integration with the rest of Watershed’s platform.
• A new data model to extend our core backing database and expose more granular emissions breakdowns to customers.
• Work across our full stack, with an emphasis on back-end systems and data models.
• Partner with Product Management and Design to understand user workflows and needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Partner with AI engineers and climate scientists to build ergonomic and trustworthy agentic workflows.
• Lead by example by writing performant, well-crafted, extensible, and maintainable code.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience across both front-end and back-end, with an emphasis on back-end.
• A track record of ownership and high-impact projects.
• Experience building early-stage products.
• Experience with, or interest in, building AI-powered and data-centric products.
• Mission-driven and excited to build products that will help companies reduce their emissions.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• Our Denver office is one of Watershed's newest and fastest-growing hubs.
• Located at 1615 Platte Street in LoHi, it's home to a collaborative team of engineers, product managers, and business partners working together in person.
• We provide lunch every day in the office, and you'll have the opportunity to help shape the culture and future of a growing engineering presence in Denver.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Our Denver office is one of Watershed's newest and fastest-growing hubs. Employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week (except for remote roles).