Software Engineer, Route Optimization Engine

The Company

Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future.

The Position

We are looking for a product-driven software engineer to join our team as we scale our groundbreaking Wayfinder weather routing service for the maritime transport industry. In this position you will help design, develop, and maintain services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine – an optimal ship-routing tool that combines weather data with ship performance models and user-specified constraints to find the most efficient routes across the worlds' oceans, saving fuel, emissions and reducing risk.

You’ll collaborate with a top-notch team of engineers and ocean scientists to translate abstract requirements into great code in a novel problem space. You’ll spend a lot of time implementing and improving core algorithms, but will also contribute to the higher level web services and infrastructure in the ecosystem.

You'll be working in our optimization engine, which is written in Rust with some elements in Python and Fortran (yes - it’s actually still pretty great for certain applications!). Our tech stack includes Typescript and React on the frontend with backend APIs written using Typescript. You should be comfortable working with both high- and low-level languages. You’re excited to learn new technologies when needed and are a great communicator with other engineers and non-technical team members.

About You

Requirements:

• Passionate about the opportunity to join a growing mission-driven startup to make a big positive impact on the world
• A great communicator with a collaborative mindset who enjoys working with other engineers, designers, product managers, and scientists
• 3+ years professional experience as a software engineer
• Proficient in a compiled, typed, scalable, performant, non-garbage collected language (Rust, C++, etc)

Bonus Points:

• Experience building software for optimization problems, pathfinding algorithms, and/or controls systems
• Experience working with modeling and data science applications and teams
• Experience working with scaled application deployment and management
• A personal connection to or passion for the oceans

Employee Conduct

It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers, and vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.