# Staff software engineer, sustainability platform

**Company:** [Watershed](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/watershed)
**Location:** Denver, CO
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $215k – $254k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Full Stack Development, Data Pipelines, Data Transformation, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Complex Data Models, Frontend Development, Backend Development
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Staff Full-Stack Engineer building Watershed's core sustainability measurement platform. Own end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, emissions calculations, querying, and visualization for enterprise customers. Requires 8+ years full-stack experience with data-intensive products; hybrid role based in Denver.

## Job Description

## 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.

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