Founding software engineer mexico city (xico)

about watershed

watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like airbnb, carlyle group, fedex, visa, and dr. Martens use watershed to manage climate and esg data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including csrd, and drive real decarbonization.

role

we are looking for a founding engineering technical lead in mexico city. This is an opportunity to bootstrap a team, set the culture for an entire office, and guide the team’s technical vision while upholding the technical and operational bar for the team.

responsibilities

• be the tech lead of a co‑located team of 4‑8 engineers who will own our supply chain product module.
• be the thought partner for the engineering manager, product manager, and designer to drive the team’s product and architecture vision.
• partner with peer tech leads and domain experts in the us and uk to align standards, roadmaps, and execution.
• participate in our technical lead forum to steward our architecture and accelerate our velocity.
• be a hands‑on partner and mentor for your fellow engineers who have been tasked with leading design and implementation of a specific feature or project.
• lead by example by writing performant, well‑crafted, tested, and maintainable code across our technical stack.
• foster a culture of technical excellence and efficient execution within your team.

qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building products with javascript/typescript or a similar object‑oriented programming language.
• strong full‑stack development skills.
• 2+ years of experience leading teams or projects.
• experience building enterprise products and understanding the quality and level of service expectations of enterprise customers.
• experience working in a multi‑national distributed engineering organization.
• experience building with any of the following is a plus: data‑centric applications and python, continuous deployment, gcp, postgres, temporal, and duckdb.

location & working conditions

the position is required to be in person in our mexico city office. Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week.