Senior Backend Software Engineer

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Job brief:

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on the Consumer Weather API Team, you will play a key role in the design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of our extensive suite of API products. You will work on REST APIs that heavily leverage edge caching and edge computing to deliver data efficiently to customers at very high volumes. Our platform processes millions of weather data requests per second, making high performance at every level of our stack a critical priority.

Working within a distributed team of local and remote engineers, you must excel at written communication and online collaboration. In this role, you will act as a technical liaison between our US-based team and a team of developers, QA, and DevOps engineers based in India. As a senior member of the development team, you will share your knowledge and experience with junior team members in both the US and India to support their growth, while also providing input to management and product teams.

Our technology stack includes several JVM languages (Scala, Clojure, and Java) for maintaining existing systems, while new software development is primarily conducted in Go.

The impact you'll make:

• Lead the architecture and development of scalable software solutions.
• Design and optimize high-performance REST APIs to support business needs.
• Serve as the technical liaison between US and India-based teams to ensure seamless collaboration.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct thorough code reviews to uphold code quality and best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Drive technical excellence and promote best practices in software engineering.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues, participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support system uptime.
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning to shape the future of the software ecosystem.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD processes for streamlined software delivery.

What you've accomplished:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is a plus.
• 5–8 years of software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Scala, or C.
• Proven experience leading technical projects and delivering results.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS preferred), database systems (SQL), and data modeling.
• Technical leadership and architectural design experience.
• Expertise in performance optimization and code reviews.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with remote teams and mentoring team members.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with DevOps tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Expertise in containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of serverless computing frameworks.
• Experience optimizing performance in complex systems.
• Contributions to open-source projects.