Software Engineer

The Natural Capital Project is seeking a thoughtful, curious, and pragmatic Software Engineer to join our software team. The engineer will work closely with scientists and other software engineers to develop and maintain a family of open-source software tools and libraries including InVEST, our suite of models for mapping ecosystem services, and PyGeoprocessing, a library of memory-efficient geoprocessing routines. In addition to ongoing maintenance and science project support, the software engineer will contribute directly to our next-generation software platform to help address critical issues common to ecosystem service analyses. Our next-gen platform involves integrating cloud data services into InVEST, creating a scalable and distributed computational infrastructure for large-scale modeling runs, and developing a reporting framework for scientific results. The engineer can expect to engage in all aspects of the software lifecycle and develop pragmatic solutions to challenging, real-world problems.
The software team is remote and works across time zones, collaborating over Slack, Zoom, and through GitHub pull requests. To fit well into our remote team and interdisciplinary organization, we are looking for someone who can work independently, take initiative, and communicate clearly with other software developers, scientists, and practitioners. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, polite, curious, and pragmatic. We are excited to talk to any engineer with a track record of developing and deploying any kind of software project. Even if you only meet some of the preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply.

Your Responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining NatCap’s current and future open-source software, including the InVEST and PyGeoprocessing Python libraries.
• Writing efficient, readable, and well-tested code that aligns with our software development methodology.
• Supporting the NatCap science team with data processing, numerical computation, and writing research scripts.
• Collaborating on design documents and code reviews.
• Supporting InVEST users via NatCap’s online forum.
• Contributing to the development of our next-generation software platform.
• Making use of the right programming languages, frameworks, and tools for the problem at hand.

The expected pay range for this position is $80,000 to $135,000 per annum for the Stanford Work Location. The expected pay range for this position is $82,000 to $124,000 per annum for all other locations.