The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.
The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.
One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.
That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.
Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.
Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.
Our engineering team is growing! We are looking for multiple senior full stack engineers to join our web product team(s) and help us scale our product suite.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Overstory, you will have a direct impact on our mission by building new capabilities and features that in turn enable utility companies to more effectively manage risks associated with climate change, wildfires and storms. We will also look to you to effectively partner with product, design and tech leads on key initiatives and mentor other engineers from time to time.
What You Will DoOver the next 6-12 months you will contribute to:
- Performance & scalability: ensuring that our product can handle 3x year-over-year growth
- Velocity: accelerating time to value of new product capabilities
- Leverage: reducing the amount of manual work required to ingest vegetation analysis into our customer facing applications
- Based in GMT/CET or North America East time zone for maximum team overlap / successful collaboration
- Proven experience of full stack development across the following (or similar) technologies: *Python/FastAPI, React/Typescript, Postgres DB, data pipelines; (*Python experience a core requirement)
- Recent experience working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar
- Experience working in a high growth scaleup environment across distributed, remote teams
- Deeply committed to tackling the climate crisis
- Possess a product mindset; deep understanding of leveraging technology to directly impact business outcomes
- Proven ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to effectively collaborate in a cross-functional team environment
- Committed to ongoing education, perpetual learning, mentorship; interested in evolving technologies and industry trends
- Experience working with maps/imagery/geospatial domains
- Experience working on globally distributed teams
Note: We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.
What We Offer- To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
- Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
- Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
- To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
- Equity and a competitive salary.
We are a group of 100 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from eleven different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.
Diversity & InclusionWe place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.
We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.
Our valuesTackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.We act with urgency.
Our curiosity fuels our growth.We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
We’re rooted in diversity.Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.
We care for each other.We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.
Trust is fundamental.We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.
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Use of AI in Our Hiring Process
We sometimes use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as helping us manage applications more efficiently or ensuring job descriptions are clear and inclusive. But don’t worry, all hiring decisions are always made by people, not machines. Any data processed by AI is handled securely in line with GDPR and our Privacy Notice.
