Technosylva · 2 months ago
Engineering Lead - KatRisk
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffTechnosylva is a leading provider of catastrophe risk modeling solutions, dedicated to helping businesses manage and mitigate risks associated with natural disasters. They are seeking a hands-on Engineering Leader with deep C++ expertise to lead and mentor engineers while enhancing their catastrophe risk assessment platform and driving strategic transformation towards a scalable, cloud-native system.
ConsultingEnvironmental ConsultingSoftware
Responsibilities
Own & evolve the core C++ modeling system: Maintain, refactor, and enhance an established codebase that drives large-scale peril specific loss simulations with complex financial modelling
Implement new catastrophe risk and financial models as they are designed
Modernize the stack: Refactor legacy components toward a modular, containerized architecture with improved deployment automation
Data-driven simulation accuracy: Work with historical and meteorological datasets to ensure scientifically sound, reproducible results in partnership with our Science team
Performance & reliability at scale: Profile and optimize an I/O-intensive architecture (distributed processes, partial in-memory reads, lz4 binary outputs ~500 MB/core) to meet strict enterprise SLAs both on client infrastructure deployed environments and as a cloud based SaaS solution
Guide integration: With APIs and visualization components to support new user experiences
Distributed compute orchestration: Enhance the server-side job scheduler, proxies, and API daemon that coordinate asynchronous batch processing for API clients (including the web front end)
Modernize the web layer: Lead the transition from R Shiny components to a more traditional web stack (IIS/Apache, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) while keeping the system loosely coupled
Database stewardship: Guide data modeling and performance tuning on our SQL Server backend; ensure data quality, lineage, and operational resilience
Engineering leadership: Set technical direction, establish coding standards and CI/CD practices, mentor engineers, and drive pragmatic execution across a cross-disciplinary team
Security & reliability: Strengthen authentication (pluggable approach), observability, and incident response; champion testing and automation throughout the stack
Customer impact: Collaborate with Product and customer-facing teams to translate enterprise needs into roadmaps, features, client specific consulting projects, and measurable outcomes
Qualification
Required
Strong proficiency in C++ for scientific/engineering or high-performance systems
Experience working with large datasets and performance-sensitive pipelines (I/O intensive workflows, compression, concurrency)
Solid debugging, profiling, and optimization skills across Linux/Windows environments
Demonstrated ability to lead or mentor a small engineering team
Ability to collaborate effectively with Data Engineering, Science, and Product teams; clear written and verbal communication
Minimum level of written and spoken English, C1
Preferred
Experience with geospatial data, risk or simulation systems
Familiarity with cloud computing, containerization, or distributed systems
Experience modernizing or migrating legacy systems
Familiarity with geospatial data/visualization and map-based UIs
Experience with SQL Server performance tuning and data modeling
Exposure to R and/or migrating R Shiny workloads to modern web stacks
Distributed systems experience (job scheduling, batch processing, multi-process orchestration, API-driven controllers) on windows and linux environments within a cloud and client side infrastructure
Building enterprise-grade systems with strong authentication, observability, and SLAs
Knowledge of catastrophe modelling concepts and understanding of insurance based financial structures
Benefits
Competitive annual salary.
Attractive benefits package based on country of employment.
Flexible working hours.
Remote work options available.
Company
Technosylva
Technosylva provides GIS-based solutions for wildland fire protection planning, analysis, modeling, and operational response.
Founded in 1997
51-200 employees
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Funding
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unknownKey Investors
General AtlanticTA Associates
2024-11-21Private Equity
2022-08-15Private Equity
Leadership Team
Bryan Spear
Chief Executive Officer
Joaquin Ramirez Cisneros
President and Chief Technology Officer
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