[Hiring] Staff Engineer @Overstory

Join Overstory as a Remote Staff Engineer

Location: Europe, USA

About Overstory

Overstory is on an ambitious mission to tackle the climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. Using machine learning applied to satellite imagery, we track forests and vegetation to help reduce wildfire risks and improve grid reliability. We partner with over 40 leading utility companies worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities.

We are scaling rapidly, supported by a $14 million Series A funding round led by , and joined by alongside other climate-conscious investors.

Our remote-first team spans the U.S. and Europe, united by our drive to create impactful, technology-driven solutions for the planet.

Your Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Overstory, you will join the Vegetation Management Experience team, enhancing web tools that help utility companies manage climate change, wildfire, and storm risks. Key areas for improvement include:

• Ensuring performance and scalability to handle 3x year-over-year growth.
• Accelerating time to value for new product capabilities.
• Reducing manual tasks to integrate vegetation analysis into customer tools.

Our Staff Engineers are hands-on technical leaders, influencing cross-team initiatives, making critical technology choices, and solving significant technical challenges, facilitating our rapid scaling plans.

What You Will Do

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of system design to select appropriate technologies considering constraints.
• A strong grasp of our business domains to apply technology for business impact.
• Innovating and introducing new technologies and methodologies.
• Resolving complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.

Ownership

• Leading cross-team initiatives or team-level architectural designs.
• Making pragmatic technology choices balancing current and future business needs.
• Defining coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Evaluating and recommending new tools and technologies.
• Hands-on contribution to projects.

Leadership

• Mentoring and coaching engineers.
• Influencing technical decisions at the organizational level.
• Collaborating with product managers and CTO to meld technology with product strategy.

About You

• Experience in a high-growth scale-up environment.
• A product-minded approach with a demonstrable impact on business through technology.
• Full stack development using technologies like React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres DB, and Data pipelines.
• Comfort with working in a “build it, run it” environment (GCP, Cloud Run, Grafana, Kubernetes).
• Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills for engineers at all levels.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional teamwork.
• Passion for continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends.
• Residing within the GMT/CET time zone or US ET with significant overlap with GMT/CET working hours.

If you don’t meet all of the above but have much to offer, please apply.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience scaling large distributed architectures.
• Experience working in a remote-first environment.
• Experience with satellite data and/or imagery.

What You Get

• A mission-driven role reducing wildfires, protecting natural resources, and tackling the climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with autonomy.
• Benefits like a remote working budget, educational budget, and time for skill development.
• A cohesive, supportive, and diverse team culture.
• Equity and competitive salary.

About Our Team

Our team consists of 62 people from