Senior Software Engineer - Operational Systems @ WindBorne — application info & challenge
Make a POST request to https://windmc.windbornesystems.com/career_applications.json with the following body:
{
"career_application": {
"name": "Your name",
"email": "Your email",
"role": "Senior Software Engineer - Operational Systems",
"resume_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your resume",
"submission_url": "A publicly accessible URL pointing to your written submission — see below",
"portfolio_url": "Optional — a portfolio site, GitHub, or representative project",
"notes": "Optional — anything you'd like to say about yourself"
}
}The role name must match exactly: Senior Software Engineer - Operational Systems. Make sure the request returns a status code of 200 — anything else means it wasn't accepted, and the response body will tell you what's wrong.
Pick a project you're proud of. Then write two short explanations of it:
- For a non-technical audience — what was it, and why should they be impressed?
- For a technical peer — what was it, and why should they be impressed?
Hopefully you came across this gist from our careers page, but if not, here's the summary!
- WindBorne Systems designs, builds, and launches a new kind of smart weather balloon, then plugs this unique data into our own AI-based weather models. Our mission is to build a planetary nervous system. In the process, we can both save a huge amount of carbon emissions and help humanity adapt to extreme weather.
- We're looking for an impact-driven Senior Software engineer to embed in our operations team. Good for someone who likes being the customer and owning a system end-to-end.
Experienced Software Engineer with 5+ years in full-stack development, operational systems, and cloud-native services, with hands-on background in Python, Postgres, Ruby on Rails, and internal tooling. Experienced in building backend platforms, improving system reliability through testing and observability, and translating operational needs into technical requirements. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, LeetCode Knight with 1,082 problems solved, and 4.0 MS GPA.