The Weather Company

The Weather Company

Lead Software Engineer, Meteorological Technologies

Andover, MA

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$190kDetected 26 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonGoReactNext.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentGitVector DatabasesAWSCI/CDDevOpsAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningLLMsRAGAI OrchestrationForecastingLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 7+ years in cloud-based (e.g., AWS) solutions architecture, software development, DevOps, or related technical roles
  • Domain experience in meteorology, weather forecasting, aviation, or scientific operations
  • AI-assisted development - practical experience using AI coding assistants such as V0, GitHub CoPilot, Cursor to accelerate development workflows.
  • LLM and modern AI integration - practical experience with APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, or similar capabilities
  • Multi-language programming. proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or similar languages
  • Modern web development. experience with React, Next.js, or similar frameworks for building production web applications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, Meteorology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Nice to have

  • DevOps practices - CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, monitoring, and observability
  • Process mining and optimization - formal experience identifying and quantifying automation opportunities
  • Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, Meteorology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Skills

  • Pragmatic decision-maker - ships simple, effective solutions over complex, perfect ones
  • AI innovator with discernment - aggressively evaluates emerging tools but applies critical judgment about practical, trustworthy application
  • Systems thinker - understands dependencies, integration points, and how solutions fit into larger workflows
  • Balanced risk-taker - pushes for innovation while ensuring solutions are reliable and maintainable
  • Comfortable with ambiguity - thrives when creating structure where little exists
  • Cross-functional partnership - delivered solutions by collaborating with non-technical domain experts
  • Influence without authority - achieved adoption and buy-in across organizational boundaries
  • Change management - helped teams successfully adopt new technologies while maintaining confidence
  • Nice To Have
  • Experience deploying and managing web apps on Vercel or comparable hosting services
  • Practical AI deployment - built and shipped AI solutions that solve real operational problems with appropriate monitoring and safeguards
  • Advanced AI techniques - vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, or multi-agent orchestration patterns

Compensation

  • The base salary offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region of work premises, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.
  • $150,000 - $190,000
  • Hybrid work model
  • An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
  • Impactful work in a collaborative environment

Benefits

  • Flexible Time Off program
  • Variety of medical insurance options including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
  • Benefits effective day 1 of employment include competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
  • Progressive family plan benefits
  • TWCo Benefits/

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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 from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).
  • 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.
  • As a Lead Software Engineer of Meteorological Technologies at The Weather Company, you will transform meteorological operations by strategically building meteorological tools and applying intelligent workflow automation and AI where they deliver real value.
  • You'll partner with our 24x7 Forecast Operations team to evaluate emerging automation tools, build practical solutions and unlock higher productivity from our meteorologists.
  • This is both a leadership and hands-on technical role requiring someone who can co-design, build, manage, sustain and rapidly evolve cloud-based technology solutions in an operational meteorological environment, co-architect AI workflows and assess cutting-edge tools with discernment, and influence-often across multiple projects simultaneously.
  • You'll aggressively evaluate AI capabilities in partnership with science and technology colleagues while thoughtfully deploying them in trustworthy ways, knowing when AI adds value versus when traditional solutions are smarter, and building pragmatic intelligent systems that operational meteorologists actually use.
  • The impact you'll make:
  • Build, maintain, and leverage intelligent meteorological tools and workflow automation using AI and traditional software
  • Unlock value by adding capacity to meteorological operations through automation, capturing expertise, and integrating solutions across consumer and business verticals
  • Aggressively evaluate emerging AI tools and traditional software while thoughtfully assessing which platforms deliver trustworthy, practical value for our operations
  • Partner with meteorologists and developers to co-create solutions through collaboration, not top-down directives
  • Make pragmatic technology decisions balancing innovation with operational reliability, feasibility, simplicity, cost, and effectiveness
  • Manage multiple concurrent projects, advancing 3-5+ initiatives from assessment through production deployment and sustaining engineering
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