About this role
Project Canary is a climate technology company offering an enterprise data platform that helps energy companies improve and report on their emissions footprint. Project Canary builds high-fidelity sensors, ingests data from various other technologies and sources, and leverages proprietary analytics and models to deliver insights that operators can act on to reduce emissions. The data-driven technology enables energy operators to stop leaks faster, reduce risk, streamline reporting, and differentiate their operations for key stakeholders. We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving hard technical problems, working across the full stack, and taking meaningful ownership in a growing company. This role leans toward backend engineering, but we expect our engineers to be comfortable contributing wherever the product needs them. This is a hybrid role based in downtown Denver, Colorado. We value in-person collaboration and build best when engineers spend meaningful time working side by side, whiteboarding, prototyping, and iterating together. Own and improve meaningful production systems Design, build, and maintain production applications across backend services and web interfaces Take on complex backend problems while remaining comfortable contributing across the full stack Solve for reliability, maintainability, performance, and evolving product needs Contribute to technical and architectural decisions within the team Partner closely with product, engineering, and company leadership Work in fast feedback loops with relatively few layers between an idea and implementation Build software with visible impact on our products, customers, and company What “Senior” Means Here Make sound technical decisions and clearly explain the tradeoffs behind them Work effectively through ambiguity and turn unclear problems into actionable solutions Independently own complex technical work from problem definition through delivery Deliver reliably and adjust execution based on business priorities Contribute meaningfully to architecture, technical decisions, and engineering practices Improve the quality of the systems and code around them Contribute to a culture of curiosity, accountability, and momentum Senior Engineers here are strong individual contributors who are expected to bring judgment, initiative, and technical depth to the problems they own.