Senior Software Engineer

Project Canary • Denver, CO

3d • $150,000 - $185,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to reason through complex systems and make sound engineering decisions
• Experience designing and shipping production systems
• Experience building products from 0 to 1 in ambiguous environments
• Experience working across different systems, technologies, or problem domains
• Experience solving problems that required thoughtful system design, tradeoff analysis, or non-obvious technical decisions
• Experience developing and maintaining production web applications and services
• Strong backend fundamentals and comfortable contributing to frontend work
• Ability to transfer experience from Java, Spring Boot, or comparable technologies into a .NET environment
• Ability to get productive quickly in unfamiliar technologies
• Takes ownership of learning rather than waiting for formal training
• Ability to understand and explain the code you ship
• Ability to evaluate technical and architectural decisions independently
• Ability to review generated code critically
• Ability to identify bugs and troubleshoot without relying on AI tools for reasoning
• Ability to recognize when a generated solution is wrong, overly complex, or not a good fit
• Ability to reason from first principles when needed
• Expanded scope through new systems, domains, technologies, or increased responsibility
• Comfortable stepping outside primary area of expertise when the problem requires it
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and domain concepts quickly
• Ability to connect product needs, customer impact, and technical design
• Ability to bring ideas and patterns from previous experiences without assuming every past solution fits the current problem
• Thrives in environments with evolving structure
• Takes ownership of learning new systems and domains
• Proactively identifies next steps rather than waiting for assignments
• Comfortable on small teams where engineers contribute broadly and step in where needed to get work shipped
• Stays anchored to business goals, not just technical elegance
• Clear reasoning behind technical and architectural decisions
• Ability to articulate tradeoffs, not just best practices
• Awareness of business context when estimating timelines and choosing solutions
• Discipline to meet commitments
• Judgment to increase intensity when the situation calls for it and simplify when complexity is not justified

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to complex or real-world data problems
• Experience with systems interacting with physical processes
• Experience with geospatial or spatial data
• Experience combining multiple data streams to infer meaningful signals
• Experience with problems requiring modeling, interpretation, or non-obvious conclusions
• Production applications built with .NET/C#, Java/Spring Boot, React, or comparable technologies

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Salary range: $150,000-$185,000 annual base
• 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)
• Student loan assistance
• Unlimited PTO
• 6 days of sick time per year
• 11 paid company holidays per year
• Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed