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# Software Engineer at The Weather Company

- **Company:** The Weather Company
- **Location:** Andover, MA
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/theweathercompany/jobs/5190840007

## Job description

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

AI is part of how we work:

Human judgment, expertise, and creativity remain essential and are amplified by AI. We expect everyone in this role to use AI thoughtfully and proactively to accelerate their performance, improve the quality of their work, and explore new possibilities. We are looking for people who are curious, adaptable, and excited to help shape an AI-enabled culture that delivers better outcomes for our customers and our company.

Job brief:

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at The Weather Company, you will join our commercial aviation engineering team and play a key role in building and evolving the products that dispatchers and pilots rely on every day to make critical, time-sensitive decisions. You will harness TWC's industry-leading weather and flight data to develop compelling, high-performance visualizations and the APIs and services that power them. Working across a diverse technology stack, from modern tools like React, Go, MongoDB, and AWS to established platforms in .NET/C# and SQL Server, you will have the opportunity to make a genuine impact on the safety and efficiency of commercial aviation worldwide.

This is a hybrid role (3 days per week in office). Engineers on this team participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation following a structured training and onboarding period.

The impact you'll make:

- Build and maintain full stack features across frontend and backend systems, delivering data-rich aviation applications used by dispatchers and pilots globally
- Develop high-performance, intuitive visualizations that transform complex weather and flight data into clear, actionable information for aviation professionals
- Design and extend RESTful APIs using Go and Node.js to serve real-time weather and flight data at scale
- Build responsive, performant frontend interfaces in React that meet the demanding needs of aviation operations environments
- Work with MongoDB and SQL Server to store, query, and manage large volumes of weather and flight data efficiently
- Contribute to established products built on .NET/C# and SQL Server, ensuring continuity and quality across the full product portfolio
- Deploy, monitor, and manage services on AWS, following cloud infrastructure and security best practices
- Actively use AI coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to accelerate development velocity, improve code quality, and solve complex problems more effectively
- Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Participate in code reviews, contributing constructive feedback and raising the bar for engineering quality across the team
- Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and fellow engineers in an agile delivery environment
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across multiple systems, minimizing impact to aviation operations
- Participate in the team's 24x7 on-call rotation (after a structured ramp-up period), supporting system reliability and incident response

What you've accomplished:

- 1–5 years of professional software development experience, with meaningful contributions to full stack applications
- Demonstrated, practical experience using AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) as part of your regular development workflow — in code generation, debugging, testing, or documentation
- Proficiency in React or a comparable modern frontend framework, with the ability to build and maintain complex, data-driven UIs
- Backend development experience in one or more of: Go, Node.js, or .NET/C#
- Working knowledge of both relational databases (SQL Server or equivalent) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB or equivalent)
- Solid understanding of REST API design and HTTP fundamentals
- Experience with Git-based version control workflows in a collaborative team environment
- A track record of writing readable, testable, maintainable code and taking ownership of quality
- Ability to work effectively across multiple codebases and adapt to varying technology stacks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to diagnose and resolve issues in complex distributed systems

Nice to have:

- Experience building AI-powered product features or integrating LLM APIs into applications
- Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, or similar services)
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
- Experience with legacy system modernization
- Background or interest in the commercial aviation or weather technology domain

Base Salary: $105,000 - $135,000

The base salary offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region of work premises, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

TWCo Benefits/Perks:

- Flexible Time Off program
- Hybrid work model
- Variety of medical insurance options including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
- Benefits effective day 1 of employment include competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
- Progressive family plan benefits
- An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
- Impactful work in a collaborative environment

## About The Weather Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Weather Company is a global leader in weather data, forecasting, and insights, providing scalable solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments through its portfolio of trusted brands and a robust API platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of IBM)
- **Headquarters**: Brookhaven, Georgia, United States (also major hubs in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY)
- **Founded**: 1982 (as The Weather Channel)
- **Founders**: John Coleman (co-founder of The Weather Channel)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Weather Data & Forecasting, Technology, Media, Advertising, Aviation
- **Target customers**: B2B (Aviation, Media, Advertising, Government/Defense) and B2C (Consumers via The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Storm Radar)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To instill confidence, drive decisions, and propel the world by putting science and technology to work. The company aims to "drive better, faster decisions for the millions of consumers, clients, and partners who rely on us every day."

## Products & Services
- **[The Weather Channel App & Website]**: The flagship consumer brand and the most downloaded weather app, available on iOS and Android across 178 countries and 83 languages. Provides hyper-local forecasts, severe weather alerts, and lifestyle content.
- **[Weather Underground]**: A community-driven weather platform that provides hyper-local data and forecasts from a network of personal weather stations.
- **[Storm Radar]**: A dedicated severe weather tracking app providing real-time, interactive radar and storm path predictions.
- **[Weather Data API]**: A robust, enterprise-grade API platform that allows businesses to integrate weather data into their applications, business processes, or custom models. Guarantees 99.9% uptime SLA.
- **[Aviation Weather Solutions (Pilotbrief)]**: Provides preflight and in-flight weather briefings, safety tools, and performance optimization data for the aviation industry. Originally pioneered dial-up aviation weather briefings.
- **[Media Solutions]**: Provides enterprise-class production tools, visualizations, and advanced weather data to television stations and broadcasters to create personalized content and cross-platform experiences.
- **[Advertising Solutions]**: A privacy-forward, contextual advertising platform that leverages weather as a signal to deliver predictive insights and more relevant, precise campaigns for marketers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held subsidiary of IBM). Estimated annual revenue of **$133.4M**.
- **Key Metric**: **~2.2 billion** weather forecasts produced each day for **2.2 billion** locations. The Weather Channel app has **3x more cumulative downloads** than its closest competitor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IBM (parent company). Key partners include hundreds of global broadcasters and thousands of enterprise customers across aviation, media, and government.
- **Growth Signals**: Named the **#1 most trusted brand in the U.S.** (Morning Consult, 2025) and the **world's most accurate forecaster** (ForecastWatch, 2021-2024). The company is investing heavily in AI to power predictive insights for advertising and consumer products. Employs 523 people (-1.6% YoY).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched Accuracy & Trust**: Consistently ranked as the world's most accurate forecaster and a top 10 most trusted brand, creating a massive competitive moat in both consumer and enterprise markets.
- **Massive Data & Scale**: Processes data from billions of locations daily, with 89% of users opting in to share location data. This creates a unique, privacy-forward data asset for AI and advertising.
- **Patent Portfolio**: Holds dozens of patents for weather forecasting, data processing, and visualization technologies.
- **Deep Industry Integration**: Long-standing, mission-critical relationships in aviation (70% of air traffic delays are weather-related), media (the #1 reason people watch local news is weather), and government.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Innovation**: Leveraging AI to enhance forecast accuracy, deliver predictive advertising insights, and improve consumer experiences.
- **Expanding Enterprise Solutions**: Growing the B2B side of the business, particularly in Aviation, Media, and Advertising, by offering more integrated, data-rich solutions.
- **Consumer Engagement**: Maintaining and growing the massive consumer user base (50M+ daily users) through continuous app innovation and personalization.
- **Climate Adaptation**: Positioning the company as a critical partner for businesses and governments navigating an increasingly volatile climate.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are driven by a purpose to help people and businesses make better decisions in the face of increasingly volatile weather. The culture is described as "curious, collaborative, and purpose-driven."
- **Strong Stability & Longevity**: Nearly half of employees have spent more than a decade at the company, indicating high retention and a stable work environment. Backed by IBM.
- **Flexibility & Perks**: Offers **partial remote work options** and a **Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy** with no limit on paid days off. Comprehensive benefits include $0 premium employee medical coverage, strong 401k match (no vesting), tuition reimbursement, and progressive family planning benefits (fertility treatments, adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, paid parental leave).
- **Cross-Functional Opportunities**: Roles span product design, technology, weather science, data & analytics, sales, marketing, and operations. Notable open roles include Senior Data Engineer, Staff Software Engineer (AI/Weather Science), and Cybersecurity Analyst.
- **Locations**: Major offices in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY.

## Sources
1. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/careers/)
2. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/)
3. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/about-us/)
4. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/leadership/)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weather-company)

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