Staff software engineer, finance

About Watershed

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.

We have offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!

The role

Watershed is a software platform for running a world-class climate program. We measure our success in the carbon reduction achievements of our customers. We are looking for team members to join our team focused on delivering outcomes for our Financial Institution customers.

The Financial Institutions team customizes the Watershed platform for the specific needs of Asset Managers, Banks, Portfolio Companies and others. This involves; modelling finance specific entities like portfolios, assets and holdings - calculating data quality metrics like PCAF scores - and supporting customer report on Financial Regulations like SFDR.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with Product, Design and our Customer teams to define technical roadmap that balances time to market for innovative features with stewardship of the codebase

• Be a great customer to our platform teams to maximally leverage existing capabilities and educate them on the Financial customer needs to help define the platform roadmap

• Build high leverage additions to the platform to bring value to our customer segment

• Partner with other engineering leadership to make Watershed a productive, innovative and impactful place for engineers to do their best work

You might be a good fit if you have:

• 8+ years of engineering experience

• Experience building user facing applications considering usability, performance and scale

• A systems thinker; able to grok the big picture, identify the load bearing challenges and help others to focus on what matters most

• Experience leading high performing engineering teams

• Some experience with the financial domain is beneficially but no required

This role will be based in our New York City office.

Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so.

What’s the interview process like?

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience interview (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

What if I need accommodations for my interview?

At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy-related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.