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About the Role

Project Canary is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their technology team. This role involves solving complex technical problems across the full stack, with a primary focus on backend engineering, and taking ownership within a growing climate technology company.

Responsibilities

Own and improve meaningful production systems
Design, build, and maintain production applications across backend services and web interfaces
Take on complex backend problems while remaining comfortable contributing across the full stack
Solve for reliability, maintainability, performance, and evolving product needs
Contribute to technical and architectural decisions within the team
Partner closely with product, engineering, and company leadership
Work in fast feedback loops with relatively few layers between an idea and implementation
Build software with visible impact on our products, customers, and company
Make sound technical decisions and clearly explain the tradeoffs behind them
Work effectively through ambiguity and turn unclear problems into actionable solutions
Independently own complex technical work from problem definition through delivery
Deliver reliably and adjust execution based on business priorities
Contribute meaningfully to architecture, technical decisions, and engineering practices
Improve the quality of the systems and code around them
Contribute to a culture of curiosity, accountability, and momentum
Use AI and other development tools where they improve speed, learning, and productivity
Understand and explain the code you ship
Evaluate technical and architectural decisions independently
Review generated code critically
Identify bugs and troubleshoot without relying on the tool to do the reasoning for you
Recognize when a generated solution is wrong, overly complex, or simply not a good fit for the problem
Expand scope through new systems, domains, technologies, or increased responsibility
Step outside primary area of expertise when the problem requires it
Learn unfamiliar systems and domain concepts quickly
Connect product needs, customer impact, and technical design
Bring ideas and patterns from previous experiences without assuming every past solution fits the current problem
Thrive in environments with evolving structure
Take ownership of learning new systems and domains
Proactively identify next steps rather than waiting for assignments
Be comfortable on small teams where engineers contribute broadly and step in where needed to get work shipped
Stay anchored to business goals, not just technical elegance
Demonstrate clear reasoning behind technical and architectural decisions
Articulate tradeoffs, not just best practices
Be aware of business context when estimating timelines and choosing solutions
Meet commitments
Increase intensity when the situation calls for it and simplify when complexity is not justified

Requirements

Demonstrated ability to reason through complex systems and make sound engineering decisions
Experience designing and shipping production systems
Experience building products from 0 to 1 in ambiguous environments
Experience working across different systems, technologies, or problem domains
Experience with research, open-source contributions, or other technically rigorous work
Experience solving problems that required thoughtful system design, tradeoff analysis, or non-obvious technical decisions
Experience developing and maintaining production web applications and services
Strong backend fundamentals and comfort contributing to frontend work
Ability to transfer experience from Java, Spring Boot, or comparable technologies into a .NET environment
Ability to get productive quickly in unfamiliar technologies
Take ownership of learning rather than waiting for formal training
Ability to understand and explain the code you ship
Ability to evaluate technical and architectural decisions independently
Ability to review generated code critically
Ability to identify bugs and troubleshoot without relying on AI tools for reasoning
Ability to recognize when a generated solution is wrong, overly complex, or not a good fit
Ability to reason from first principles when needed
Ability to expand scope through new systems, domains, technologies, or increased responsibility
Comfort stepping outside primary area of expertise when the problem requires it
Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and domain concepts quickly
Ability to connect product needs, customer impact, and technical design
Ability to bring ideas and patterns from previous experiences without assuming every past solution fits the current problem
Thrive in environments with evolving structure
Take ownership of learning new systems and domains
Proactively identify next steps rather than waiting for assignments
Comfort on small teams where engineers contribute broadly and step in where needed to get work shipped
Stay anchored to business goals, not just technical elegance
Demonstrate clear reasoning behind technical and architectural decisions
Ability to articulate tradeoffs, not just best practices
Awareness of business context when estimating timelines and choosing solutions
Discipline to meet commitments
Judgment to increase intensity when the situation calls for it and simplify when complexity is not justified
Exposure to complex or real-world data problems is compelling
Experience with systems interacting with physical processes
Experience with geospatial or spatial data
Experience combining multiple data streams to infer meaningful signals
Experience with problems requiring modeling, interpretation, or non-obvious conclusions
Experience with production applications built with .NET/C#, Java/Spring Boot, React, or comparable technologies

Skills

.NET
C#
Entity Framework Core
React
Backend engineering
Full-stack development
System design
Problem-solving
Technical decision-making
Communication
Collaboration
Adaptability
Ownership
Pace
Judgment
Java
Spring Boot

Location

Denver Headquarters
Denver, Colorado

Work Type

Full Time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$150,000 - $185,000 / year

Benefits

Salary range: $150,000-$185,000 annual base
Hybrid work environment (3 days/week in Denver office)
Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and premiums paid by company 99% for self and 50% for dependents and/or spouse
401K with company match (no vesting period)
Student loan assistance
Unlimited PTO
6 days of sick time per year
11 paid company holidays per year
Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Dog friendly office environment

About the Company

Project Canary is a climate technology company offering an enterprise data platform that helps energy companies improve and report on their emissions footprint.
Project Canary builds high-fidelity sensors, ingests data from various other technologies and sources, and leverages proprietary analytics and models to deliver insights that operators can act on to reduce emissions.
The data-driven technology enables energy operators to stop leaks faster, reduce risk, streamline reporting, and differentiate their operations for key stakeholders.
We are a mid-stage startup.