Loon · 3 weeks ago
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Climate Finance project
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$165K/yr - $245K/yr
5+ years expLoon is a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs aiming to tackle the world's most intractable problems. They are seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to architect and develop distributed modeling and design infrastructure focused on climate finance, utilizing advanced machine learning and data management systems.
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Responsibilities
Empower the ML team by optimizing workflows for deployment, testing, and development
Partner with UX engineers to build customer-facing products that utilize our modeling and compute power
Organize and manage diverse datasets and schemas to ensure seamless team access
Create monitoring and management tools that allow the team to proactively address or avoid system failures
Uphold rigorous standards for test coverage, documentation, and code quality
Lead the development of a large-scale compute, data and machine learning infrastructures
Support the design and deployment of breakthrough customer-facing tools
Architect efficient, scalable and maintainable system designs and APIs, ensuring the entire application is secure, performant, and reliable
Collaborate directly with research scientists and ML engineers to understand user needs, define product requirements, and build features that fit seamlessly into our workflows
Own the end-to-end deployment and operations of the application on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), utilizing services like Cloud Run, GKE, and BigQuery
Champion software engineering best practices, including comprehensive testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code, to build a resilient, production-ready system
Qualification
Required
A minimum of 5 years of professional experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade, user-facing applications
Demonstrable expertise in building and hosting front-end focused products on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Proficiency in modern frontend development with TypeScript and React, including experience with frameworks like Next.js, state management libraries and data fetching/caching strategies
Strong backend development experience in Python with frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask
Proven experience with relational databases (BigQuery, PostgreSQL), containerization (Docker) and distributed compute management systems (CloudRun, Kubernetes)
Experience with MLOps and technologies for training and serving ML models
Experience with Large Language Models (Gemini) and Agentic workflows (Agent Development Kit)
A strong product mindset and a passion for building exceptional user interfaces
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform
A solid understanding of MLOps and DevOps principles and experience building robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Cloud Build, GitHub Actions)
Experience working at start-up or small teams environments
Preferred
Ability to thrive in ambiguity and navigate the '0 to 1' phase of product development
Experience working in a startup environment or with early stage projects
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Loon
Loon is a network of high altitude balloons used to provide stable internet coverage on the ground. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$125MKey Investors
HAPSMobile
2019-04-25Undisclosed· $125M
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