Senior Backend Software Engineer, Weather & Aviation

Job overview

The Senior Backend Software Engineer, Weather & Aviation role follows a hybrid arrangement, with at least three days per week in the office in Boulder, CO. The base salary range is $171,000–$202,500 per year. Spire’s Weather & Aviation business delivers weather forecasts, flight tracking, and aviation data for customer operational decisions. The engineer owns and improves backend services and APIs that deliver weather and aviation data, with a focus on availability, security, performance, and reliability at scale. The role also contributes to production operations, architecture, observability, and engineering practices, including participation in an on-call rotation.

What you'll do

• Build and improve AWS backend services for availability, fault tolerance, and performance
• design authentication and authorization using OIDC and OAuth 2.0
• develop REST APIs and streaming endpoints
• improve metrics, logging, tracing, and SLOs
• participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and postmortems
• apply secure engineering practices
• lead projects from design through rollout
• mentor engineers
• contribute to testing, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, and change management
• document APIs and architectures.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior backend software engineer

weather

aviation data

aws

python

rest apis

oidc

oauth 2.0

hybrid

boulder co

$171,000–$202,500/year

on-call rotation

production systems

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Vacation, sick and personal time off
• optional medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage
• 401(k)
• wellness reimbursement
• employee stock purchase plan
• education assistance
• family leave.

Why this role

At least six years of backend development experience; hybrid work with a minimum of three office days weekly; base salary range $171,000–$202,500 plus eligibility for commissions and annual equity awards.

About the employer

Spire is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.