Software Engineer, Product

About the role

Make it rain. Make Snow. Make Earth Habitable.

Rainmaker builds and deploys audacious technologies that work with nature to create an abundant, habitable planet. We are modernizing proven cloud-seeding science with weather-resistant UAS, radar and satellite observations, numerical weather prediction, novel sensing and validation systems, and sustainable seeding technologies. We are building an integrated system to make more freshwater available to farms, ecosystems, and communities.

Our ambition is bold, but we pursue it with humility. We take on difficult problems in the real world with technical rigor, grit, integrity, and an openness to learning and course-correcting. We are hiring individuals with evidence of exceptional ability. If you want to build systems that endure, restore and deliver the future we were promised, we want to hear from you.

Rainmaker builds systems to make it rain. Our autonomous drone fleets and weather modification platform operate worldwide, expanding freshwater supplies, protecting agriculture, and proving that cloud seeding works at scale.

We need a product engineer to build software across Rainmaker.

Context

Rainmaker is about 120 people, and the software team is small. Our work combines autonomous aircraft, atmospheric science, field operations, data analysis, and customer delivery. Product engineers work across those areas and take meaningful ownership of what Rainmaker builds.

The role

• Rainmaker's software supports campaign planning, field operations, weather analysis, aircraft operations, and customer delivery. You will build across that system, including internal tools, our operational platform, data products, and customer-facing software.

You will work directly with operators, scientists, engineers, and business teams. You will find important problems, decide what software should do, and own the solution from the first prototype through production.

This is a hands-on, full-stack role on a small software team. The work is not tied to one product or department. You will go where better software can have the most impact.

What you'll do

• Build internal tools that replace manual workflows and help teams coordinate
• Develop the operational platform used to plan, monitor, and review campaigns
• Make weather, geospatial, flight, and campaign data useful to the people making decisions
• Build customer-facing products when the problem calls for them
• Work with users to understand problems, test ideas, and improve what you ship
• Own products through deployment, maintenance, and continued development
• Improve the shared components and technical patterns behind Rainmaker's software

What we're looking for

• You have owned software from an ambiguous problem through a maintained production product
• You are strong with React and TypeScript and can work across a backend using Python or Node, databases, and cloud infrastructure
• You have good product judgment and can create useful interfaces without a complete specification or finished design
• You have built software for complex, technical, or data-intensive workflows
• You work well with users and can distinguish the underlying problem from the first requested feature
• You communicate technical ideas clearly to people with different backgrounds

Supporting the Rainmakers behind the mission

Making earth more habitable is ambitious work and we want the people doing it to feel supported:

• A stake in what we build: Meaningful stock options and the opportunity to help shape Rainmaker as an early member of the team.
• Support for your health: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• An investment in your future: A 401(k) with employer matching to help you build long-term savings.
• Time to recharge: Unlimited PTO for rest, exploration, and the people and pursuits that matter to you plus a generous paid holiday schedule.
• Time for a growing family: Paid parental leave for both parents to welcome a child and spend time together.
• Lunch together: Daily lunch provided at our El Segundo headquarters, giving Rainmakers a chance to share a meal and connect with teammates.
• Help making the move: Relocation assistance for eligible roles to support your transition to Rainmaker.