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# Sr. Software Engineer at The Weather Company

- **Company:** The Weather Company
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/theweathercompany/jobs/5212268007

## 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:

The Weather Company's Spatial Data Services (SSDS) team is the backbone of data visualization across our entire platform. We operate one of the largest geospatial tech stacks in the industry — over 100 services delivering thousands of layers of geospatial and weather imagery data to hundreds of millions of users, enterprise partners, and mission-critical clients including major OEMs and aviation carriers.

We're looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer who can co-design, build, manage, sustain and rapidly evolve cloud-based technology solutions in an operational environment. We expect this individual to support the architecture of AI workflows and leverage cutting-edge tools with discernment and influence - often across multiple projects simultaneously. You will aggressively evaluate AI capabilities in partnership with science and technology colleagues while deploying these in trustworthy ways, knowing when AI adds value. The role requires the individual to ship with AI at their side — someone who treats AI coding assistants as a core part of their workflow, not an afterthought. You'll work on a small, high-ownership team where your contributions directly shape how the world sees and interacts with weather data.

The impact you'll make:

- Champion thoughtful AI adoption, helping teams embrace intelligent automation while maintaining trust and reliability
- Modernize select legacy systems by proposing sustainable replacements when they block automation opportunities
- Influence technical direction across SSDS development and operational support teams beyond your direct scope
- Manage multiple concurrent projects, supporting the advancement of 3-5+ initiatives from assessment through production deployment and sustaining engineering
- Design, build, and maintain high-scale services that ingest, store, transform, and distribute geospatially referenced data in a cloud environment
- Drive innovation in how consumer, aviation, and B2B datasets are visualized and delivered
- Support and evolve internal tooling that enables sellers, product owners, and support teams to access and expand the SSDS product catalog
- Contribute to cost optimization, security compliance, and platform reliability across a large distributed service fleet
- Use AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) daily as a force multiplier in your engineering workflow
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, operations, and external enterprise clients

What you've accomplished:

- Demonstrated daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
- 5-8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems hosted in cloud (AWS strongly preferred)
- Geospatial data experience — worked with spatial data systems, tile serving, coordinate systems, or related tooling in a production environment
- Production software delivery across the full lifecycle from design to deployment to support of large-scale distributed systems
- 24x7 operational environments - worked with mission-critical systems where trustworthiness and reliability matter
- Multi-project execution - successfully supported 3-5+ concurrent technical initiatives to completion
- LLM and modern AI integration - practical experience with APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, or similar capabilities
- Production-level proficiency in Java or GoLang
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in a high-ownership environment

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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