Overview
About Us
At Saildrone, we sustainably explore, map, and monitor the oceans to understand, preserve, and protect our world. Saildrone provides real-time access to critical data from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and uses proprietary software applications to transform that data into actionable insights and intelligence. Saildrone’s fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), powered by renewable wind and solar power, have a minimal carbon footprint and operate 24/7/365, without the need for a crewed support vehicle. We work with governments, civil agencies, foundations, universities, and private companies around the globe to drive better information about our oceans and seas—from sailing drones into the eye of a Category 4 hurricane to obtain new scientific storm data, mapping the ocean floor, collecting new CO2 data in hard-to-reach areas, counting biomass to establish fishing quotas, or detecting and stopping illegal fishing and drug trafficking. As a result of our work, we have been included on Fast Company’s annual list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2022” and earned the 2022 Ocean Awards’ Innovation Award, presented by the Blue Marine Foundation. Saildrone’s hurricane mission was included as one of the New York Times “Top 21 Things that happened (for the first time) in 2021”, and Popular Science’s “100 Greatest Innovations of 2021”.
We are based in Alameda, CA, with offices in Washington DC, St. Petersburg, FL, and Fall River, MA, and operate our missions worldwide. We are backed by top-tier investors in the frontier-tech and sustainability sectors, including Social Capital, Capricorn, Lux Capital, BOND Capital, and Emerson Collective.
This is an exciting opportunity with a fast-growing team at the cutting-edge intersection of big data services and autonomous hardware. You will be an integral part of a high-performing multi-disciplinary delivering high impact for humanity and future generations.
The Role
As a Frontend Software Engineer at Saildrone you’ll be responsible for delivering high quality, user friendly interfaces across our suite of internal and customer facing web and mobile web products.
You should have a solid understanding of modern web technologies as well as experience or at least enthusiasm for modernizing code.
This is a frontend role, but you’ll also be exposed to some backend and middleware services (Node & Python). You’ll work closely with other engineers, designers and product managers to help define feature requirements and execute on them.
Required skills and experience
Professional experience building, testing and deploying customer facing web applications using React, Redux, TypeScript, jQuery, VanillaJS, HTML & CSS.
BS/BA
Desired skills and experience
Map Libraries: Google Maps, Mapbox, Open Street Maps, Cesium
Data Viz Libraries & APIs: D3, Canvas, SVG, WebGL, kepler.gl, Three.js
DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, CI
Protocols: Websockets, gRPC, protobuf
Languages: Python (Django)
Location: This position is in Alameda, CA. Only candidates with proper permits to work in the United States can be considered. Our waterfront office offers beautiful views of San Francisco Bay in always sunny Alameda. Even our walls have good karma, our offices mix software development with a hardware production line in the former airplane hangar used to film ‘The Matrix’.
Benefits:
Medical, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents.
Short and relaxing ferry ride from the Ferry Building for SF residents
Enhanced Parental Leave Programs
Competitive benefits including excellent medical, life insurance, 401k plan
