Role & Team

As a Staff Engineer, you will work across multiple teams to evolve a suite of web and internal tools that enable utility companies to more effectively manage risks associated with climate change and wildfires.

We are seeking improvement in the following areas:

• Performance & Scalability: ensure that our product can handle 3x YoY growth 
• Accelerate time to value of new product capabilities
• Reduce the amount of manual work required to ingest vegetation analysis into our customer facing tools

At Overstory, our Staff Engineers are hands-on technical leaders whose influence extends beyond their team either through leading cross team initiatives, making technology choices for critical aspects of our technology platform or solving for critical technical challenges within teams enabling our business to achieve our rapid scaling plans (growing 3x YoY). 

This role will start off being primarily team scoped solving critical scaling challenges. There is scope to expand remit as we grow.

Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and Eastern North America (NST, AST, EST)

What You'll Do

Technical Skills:

• Broad and deep understanding of system design with an ability to select the correct paradigm/technology given the situation and constraints.  
• Develops a deep understanding of our business domains and how technology can be applied to drive business impact. 
• Innovates and introduces new technologies or methodologies.
• Resolves complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.

Ownership:

• Leads cross-team initiatives or leads on architectural system design at team level
• Drives pragmatic technology choices/decisions making sensible trade offs in order to  balance current and future business needs.
• Defines coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Evaluates and recommends new tools and technologies.
• Hands-on contribution 

Leadership:

• Mentors and coaches engineers.
• Influences technical decisions at the organizational level.
• Collaborates with product managers and CTO to inform how technology can influence or enable the product strategy.

Skills & Experience

• Experience of working in a high growth scaleup environment 
• Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
• Proven experience of full stack development across the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres DB, Data pipelines)
• Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar
• Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment
• Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends

Nice To Have

• Demonstrated experience scaling large distributed architectures
• Experience working in a remote-first environment
• Experience working with satellite data and/or imagery

Note: We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

What We Offer

• Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits 
• Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust - we build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
• Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets 
• A company culture that genuinely embodies each of our core values
• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis

📍Dublin | 💰€57,000 - €72,000 + Benefits 

*This is a 12 months fixed term contract*

⭐ Our EA team

We’re looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to join our EA team to support our CEO, COO and CFO for Monzo EU 🇪🇺

We know that an excellent EA leads to better outcomes for our customers by enabling the performance of the Executive they support. This is why we are looking for a passionate, ambitious EA who relishes working in a fast paced environment where they have an opportunity to make a real difference. 

You’ll be joining a close knit community of EAs at Monzo, 16 based in London and 2 in the US, who play a critical role in keeping Monzo running smoothly and continuously raising the bar for exceptional support.

🔑 You’ll play a key role by...

• Managing our leaders’ time to ensure their diaries are accurate, free from clashes, prioritised and creating space for them to get work done. Anticipating changes and proactively supporting them to keep their plates spinning.
• Supporting our leaders with their important weekly meetings whether that is with agenda, deck preparation, taking minutes or following up on actions.
• Keeping your finger on the pulse of their world by proactively managing their inbox and keeping it clear of clutter and escalating important information to ensure it is addressed in a timely manner.
• Relationship building across your leaders organisation and the wider company to keep your finger on the pulse of engagement. 
• Owning the logistics of your leaders work life and their events. This could look like arranging day to day transport and accommodation, planning away days and socials for their team or ensuring they have a meeting room for every meeting.
• Working as part of an Executive Office, collaborating with the Chief of Staff and People Partner to deliver for your exec. 

While your focus will be on the leader that you’re supporting there will also be opportunities to get involved in project work and other initiatives across the organisation that interest you. 

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have experience working as an EA previously within a fast paced environment. (While not a requirement, previous experience in a start-up or scale up is preferable)
• You’re resilient and tenacious in your approach to getting things done and you’re not afraid to ask questions to gather the context you need to work autonomously
• You are excited by the opportunity to be involved in a broad surface area  and able to context switch with ease.
• You have excellent communication skills with a proven ability to write and adapt style to different audiences
• You enjoy work where attention to detail is a key strength
• You enjoy collaborating as a team to get things done
• You have prior experience using Google suite & Slack or similar tools. 

Unfortunately we cannot provide sponsorship for this position. 

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves 4 main stages: 

• Recruiter Call (30 min): One of our Hiring team will reach out to you for an introductory conversation. 
• Take home task 
• Final interviews (2 x 60 min interviews): Role Specific & Behavioural 
• Final call with Monzo EU CEO

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰€57,000 - €72,000

📍This is a hybrid role is based in our Dublin office. Normally the Dublin team work 2-3 days in the office per week, but this can be flexible. 

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team

📚Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

➕And much more, see our full list of benefits here

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. 

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