Software Engineer
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Denver Headquarters
Compensation: $115,000 - $140,000 / year
Description
About Project Canary 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.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking a thoughtful, hands-on Software Engineer to join our team in a hybrid role based in downtown Denver. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and enjoys building high-quality software alongside teammates in real time. We value in-person collaboration and believe our best work happens when engineers can whiteboard, prototype, troubleshoot, and iterate side by side. You’ll be expected to work from the office at least three days per week—Wednesday, Thursday, and one additional day of your choice.
What You Can Expect
- Ownership of your work with a team that gives you context and trusts you to execute
- Close partnership with the engineering team to build features end-to-end, from design through delivery
- Direct access to senior engineers and product leadership, with fast feedback loops and clear technical guidance
- The opportunity to write and ship production code with confidence, while leaning on senior engineers for architectural direction when needed
- Fewer layers between idea and implementation, so your contributions have a clear path to production
- A collaborative environment where ideas are debated openly, questions are encouraged, and decisions do not get stuck
- Active participation in technical discussions, with space to learn, contribute, and strengthen your judgment
- Clear expectations around reliability: meet commitments, flag blockers early, and stay focused on what matters most for the product
- Room to expand your technical scope and independence as you build experience and demonstrate impact
This is a role designed for an engineer who has moved beyond the basics and is ready for deeper ownership.
Your Background
We care more about what you’ve built and how you reason than where you went to school or how many years you’ve been coding. A Computer Science degree, a bootcamp background, or a non-traditional path can all produce great engineers. What matters is that you can demonstrate:
- Hands-on experience designing and shipping features in production web applications
- Familiarity with the technologies listed above, you’ve worked with most of them and can ramp up on the rest
- A trajectory of growing ownership and responsibility over time
- An eye for design, attention to detail, and the ability to translate mockups into polished, performant UI components
What We Look For
- Comfortable working in a mid-stage startup where priorities can evolve and documentation is not always perfect
- Able to self-direct within a sprint and make progress without waiting for every detail to be defined
- Adaptable when requirements shift, with a practical approach to changing information
- Motivated by the opportunity to have visible, meaningful impact on the company’s trajectory
- Able to clearly explain what you are building and why, even when requirements are still taking shape
Flags ambiguity early and surfaces tradeoffs rather than guessing silently
- Gives and receives feedback as a normal part of the work
- Understands that their code is part of a larger system serving real users
- Exercises sound judgment about when to move quickly, when to ask questions, and when to escalate risks or blockers
Technical Strengths
- Comfortable working across the web stack, from database queries to UI components
- Able to produce clean, testable, maintainable code without constant oversight
- Brings hands-on experience that shows you have built and shipped real products
Examples of relevant experience include:
- Shipping features in a production web application using React, Angular, VueJS, or a comparable front-end framework
- Building and maintaining RESTful APIs in a modern typed, object-oriented backend language
- Working with SQL and relational databases, including query structure, data modeling, and basic performance considerations
- Writing meaningful tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers
- Contributing to automated testing workflows
- Deploying and supporting applications in AWS
Tools and technologies you may work with:
- JavaScript or TypeScript
- HTML5 and CSS3
- REST APIs, WebSockets, and DOM manipulation
- A modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or VueJS
- Backend development in a typed, object-oriented language
- Authentication and authorization patterns, including OAuth and JWT or bearer tokens
- ORM experience such as Entity Framework or an equivalent tool
- Git and collaborative version control workflows
Additional Nice to Have:
- Experience with large-scale time-series data, real-time processing, or IoT device integrations
- Experience with mapping, geospatial data, or visualization tools such as GeoJSON, Mapbox, CesiumJS, Leaflet, or GDAL
- Python experience for web application backends or data science applications
- AWS infrastructure configuration, including EC2, authentication, and build pipelines
Benefits
- Salary range: $115,000 - $140,000 annual base
- Hybrid work environment (3 days/week in Denver office)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance with low deductibles and premiums paid by company 99% for self and 50% for dependents and/or spouse
- 401K with company match (no vesting period)
- Opportunity for equity ownership
- Student loan assistance
- Generous culture around time off, including:
- Unlimited PTO
- 6 days of sick time per year
- 11 paid company holidays per year
- up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave (gender neutral) including adoptions
- Dog friendly office environment
