Full Stack Software Engineer, Carbon Direct
$143-175k
Science-backed carbon management solutions
Job no longer available
Science-backed carbon management solutions
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$143-175k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable meaningful, equitable, and science-based climate action.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in Application Development and/or Platform Engineering
- JavaScript familiarity is a must, Node and React experience is a strong plus
- Experience building web applications with modern UI frameworks (Next and Material UI)
- Ability to work directly with stakeholders and scientific experts to translate complex needs into technical requirements
- Experience building products from scratch and solving real user problems
- Self-starter with a track record of building and shipping impactful features independently
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, outcome-oriented environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in distributed teams
- Interest in AI-driven innovation and ability to leverage AI coding tools
- Passion for addressing climate change
Desirable
- Demonstrated ability to independently execute projects while incorporating guidance as needed
- Experience building AI-powered features and/or working with Python or LangChain or similar agentic frameworks
- Background in climate technology or decarbonization solutions
- Experience with application security, authorization levels, and authentication
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure providers and CI/CD
What the job involves
- As a key member of our engineering team, you will build new products and deliver innovative carbon management solutions
- You will put the user first, prioritize business impact, and uphold engineering excellence
- You will actively contribute to strategy, architecture, and roadmap discussions, leveraging your technical expertise and commercial awareness
- You will participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations
- You should be capable and confident in contributing to full-stack engineering initiatives
- You thrive in a dynamic environment, quickly onboarding into new problem sets and domains
- With a strong product engineering mindset, you focus on solving real user problems and delivering value to maximize climate impact
- While working directly with stakeholders and scientific experts, you make informed tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and technical complexity to deliver impactful solutions
- You effectively communicate these tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
- Finally, your passion for delivering world-class carbon management software will be essential
- Rapidly develop high-quality frontend features that support user needs
- Design well-structured backend data models and APIs that allow for long-term adaptability and scalability
- Drive features from conception to implementation to delivery and post-release support
- Support system maintenance, including relevant on-call rotations and incident response
- Develop tests and assessment metrics to maintain overall quality of deliverables
- Work closely with a diverse team across engineering, product, science, and marketing to build impactful solutions
- Drive pragmatic, impact-driven choices that balance business outcomes, product value, design goals, and engineering excellence
- Advocate for the end-user, ensuring products solve real problems and deliver tangible value
- Maintain an inclusive culture where shared successes are valued over personal wins
Our take
The urgency in addressing climate change has intensified, with the scientific consensus emphasizing the necessity of removing billions of tons of CO₂ annual to meet the 1.5°C target. Carbon Direct is playing a pivotal role in facilitating this transition by bridging the gap between carbon science and actionable climate strategies.
It does so through two main services: software for Fortune 500 companies to build serious carbon management plans, and an investment arm that backs high-quality carbon removal projects around the world. It's all grounded in science and its known for its team of experts, some of whom helped shape efforts like Elon Musk's $100M XPRIZE for carbon removal.
And its momentum isn't slowing down anytime soon, It now counts big names like Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Meta, and JetBlue as clients. It's also been chosen as an Implementation Partner for the World EconomiC Forum's First Movers Coalition and made LinkedIn's Top Startups list two years running. The challenge now? Keeping up the pace. With the clock ticking on climate change, execution at scale matters now more than ever.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$60m
LATE VC
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- overage: While we love our work, our lives aren’t defined by it. At Carbon Direct, we offer a robust benefits package that considers the whole person, their partners, and their families – and we’re always looking to improve
- Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break
- WFH reimbursement: Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup
- Parental leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
- Remote-friendly: Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jonathan Goldberg
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Carbon Direct, Jonathan was the founder and Managing Partner of BBL Commodities. Before this, they were a partner at Glencore and an Investor at Goldman Sachs in the J. Aron commodities division.
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