Staff software engineer, sustainability platform

Responsibilities

• Build and extend Watershed's core measurement platform, turning raw enterprise data into auditable carbon footprints.
• Work across the full stack on data ingestion and transformation pipelines, interactive querying, and visualization tools.
• Own features and systems end-to-end, from understanding customer needs to shipping, monitoring, and iterating.
• Navigate complex data domains including multi-currency inputs, global regulatory frameworks, diverse data formats, and large-scale aggregation.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Climate Science teams to translate complex sustainability concepts into intuitive, trustworthy user experiences.
• Help build Watershed's Denver engineering presence, contributing to hiring, mentoring, and office culture as a founding team member.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering industry experience across both front-end and back-end.
• Track record of ownership, shipping end-to-end features, and high-impact projects.
• Experience building data-intensive products, comfortable with complex data models, transformation pipelines, and making large datasets accessible to users.
• Comfort with ambiguity; experience scoping and shipping work in environments where problems weren't fully defined upfront.
• Mission-driven and excited to build products that help companies measure and reduce their carbon emissions.
• Must be willing to work from the Denver office 4 days per week.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with sustainability, climate, or ESG data domains.