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Company & Mission Overview: Our mission: We exist to connect climate and financial risk. Who we are: First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. For over a decade, we’ve been translating climate risk into decision-useful financial outcomes for investors, businesses, communities, and property owners worldwide. With backing from world-class firms, including Innovation Endeavors, Galvanize, General Catalyst, and others, our team has raised millions to change how the global economy thinks about climate change. Read more about our culture here https://pitch.com/v/first-street-culture-deck---public-6sv4i5 and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about here https://youtu.be/GLTGXKwJlRI. Our data: We’ve assembled leading climate scientists and economists to develop transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for properties and asset classes spanning real estate, infrastructure, and companies. Using physics-based deterministic models, we predict the likelihood of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and other hazards at any location on Earth, along with associated damage and downtime. Our customers: We aim to incorporate climate risk data into every financial decision made today. We are relied on every day by: - Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone. - Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third. - Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut. - Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com http://Realtor.com, Homes.com http://Homes.com, and more. Come join us and use your talents to change the world. Team & Role Overview The engineering team at First Street is the backbone of our mission: using technology and data to help the world understand and adapt to climate risk. We’re an AI-native team building the systems that power our global products—tools relied on by customers to make informed, climate-aware decisions. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will primarily be a hands-on individual contributor responsible for architecting and delivering end-to-end features across frontend and backend systems, while also providing technical leadership and management for a small team of engineers. You will spend the majority of your time on software execution, working closely with product managers, designers, and data partners to translate complex climate data into performant, accessible, and intuitive user experiences. This role is ideal for an engineer with strong frontend fundamentals who is comfortable working across the stack and collaborating deeply with cross-functional partners. What You’ll Do - Serve as a lead individual contributor, personally building and shipping critical product features across the frontend and backend. - Develop user-facing experiences with attention to UI architecture, performance, and accessibility. - Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs and services (primarily written in Go). - Collaborate closely with product managers and designers, actively contributing ideas, tradeoffs, and technical perspectives. - Debug and reason about issues across the stack, including identifying whether problems originate in the frontend, backend, or underlying data. - Work with platform engineers and data partners to ensure product behavior aligns with real-world data and customer expectations. - Drive high standards for code quality, documentation, and engineering excellence through direct technical contribution and mentorship. - Deliver reliable, maintainable software that advances First Street’s mission to connect climate and financial risk Technologies We Use Our stack includes (but is not limited to): AWS, Go, Linux, Kubernetes, MySQL, PostgreSQL (+ PostGIS), Elasticsearch, Redis, Git, Docker, JavaScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL, REST, and Python. What You’ll Need -