Full Stack Software Engineer, Carbon Direct
$143-175k
Delivering quality CO2 management at scale
Open for applications
Delivering quality CO2 management at scale
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$143-175k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable organizations to reduce, remove and utilize their emissions with carbon science.
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 science is clear - any path that avoids global warming in excess of the 1.5C Paris Target requires us to pair emissions reductions with huge amounts (billions of tons) of CO2 removal from the atmosphere. Carbon Direct is one of the leading facilitators of a growing voluntary market to make that happen.
Instead of operating its own carbon removal technologies, Carbon Direct is focused on catalysing the industry as a whole. To that end, it has built two distinct leading services: software for Fortune 500 companies developing long-term carbon management plans and an investments business scaling the supply of quality removals.
Thus far, the company has built an impressive team of researchers that have been at the forefront of high-quality research & development including advising on Elon Musk’s $100M XPRIZE for Carbon Removal projects. The company is now using that reputation to launch software products that bring efficiency to carbon accounting, removals vetting and credit purchases.
The biggest challenge for the company will be executing with speed. Time is running out to reach the scale of carbon drawdown that we need to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2022
$60m
LATE VC
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's
- 16 weeks of fully paid paternal and family leave with no tenure required
- Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
- Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup and monthly work-from-home stipend
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jonathan Goldberg
(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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