Founding Software Engineer (Xico) (Valle de Chalco Solidaridad)

Overview

Location: Mexico City

Employment Type: Full time

Location Type: Hybrid

Department: Tech Engineering

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.

This role is part of building a world‑class engineering team with a new office in Mexico City. We are looking for team members who love product‑building, want to work hard at a mission‑oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe.

Role

Do you love to build great technology and great teams? Watershed is scaling a world‑class engineering team, and we are starting an office in Mexico City and looking for our founding Engineering Technical Lead. This is an opportunity to bootstrap a team and set the culture for an entire office. The Tech Lead for our Engineering teams is a seasoned engineer responsible for guiding the team's technical vision, ensuring alignment with other teams' product surface areas, and upholding the technical and operational bar for their team. Hands‑on coding is an important part of the job.

You will report to the CDMX founding Engineering Manager and work with them as well as Engineering leadership and Watershed's co‑founders to set the new team up for success in Mexico City. We already have successful engineering teams distributed across our offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London.

Responsibilities

• Be the Tech Lead of a co‑located team of 4‑8 engineers who will own the Supply Chain product module.
• Be the thought partner for the team's 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 the Technical Lead forum to steward architecture and accelerate velocity.
• Be a hands‑on partner and mentor for engineers leading design and implementation of features or projects.
• Lead by example by writing performant, well‑crafted, tested, and maintainable code across the stack.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and efficient execution within the team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building products with JavaScript/TypeScript or a similar language (e.g., C#).
• Strong full‑stack development skills.
• 2+ years of experience leading teams or projects.
• Experience building enterprise products and understanding the 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.
• Must be based in person in our Mexico City office and willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles).
• Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week.

Interview Process

It starts with 1 to 2 conversations to get to know the team, Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps vary by role, but typically include a skill or experience interview (e.g., coding for engineers, portfolio review for designers) which leads to a virtual or in‑person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

Accommodations

We are committed to inclusive recruitment. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long‑term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy‑related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.