Staff Engineer, Sylvera
App Platform
+ Equity
Software underpinning carbon markets
Job no longer available
Software underpinning carbon markets
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make carbon offsets work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Can demonstrate extensive experience having designed and scaled public APIs (strong preference for GraphQL here)
- Embodies a ‘You build it you own it’ approach, with experience not just building out API platforms, but also ensuring these are reliable, secure, and performant
- Is experienced with implementing an agile approach for rapid and iterative development, breaking down complex work and deliverables to drive incremental gains
- Has a hands-on coding background in Typescript/Node.js (and who wishes to remain 20% to 50% hands on!)
- Can demonstrate a strong delivery track record, with proven experience driving the strategic direction of a small agile team, whether in a Lead, Senior or Staff Engineer capacity
- We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a mission-driven Staff Engineer to lead our App Platform Team, reporting directly to our CTO
- You will play an essential role in leading on technical initiatives for the team building core API-related components that sit between our data platform, and front end
- Playing a key role in the completion of the build and roll out of our public GraphQL carbon data API, ensuring compliance with non-functional requirements, as well as giving consideration for authentication and authorisation
- Devising and implementing clear strategies to shorten our time-to-value from data creation to customer deliverable, for the rapid creation of end to end solutions
- Applying an agile approach in terms of our development lifecycle, allowing us to build complex Back End solutions incrementally
- Longer term, as our apps continue to evolve, devising and implementing strategies for monitoring and scaling, to deliver industry leading reliability to our enterprise customers
- Leading, mentoring and coaching our lean and talented team of two backend engineers, in conjunction with our Principal Engineering function
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sylvera is scaling carbon markets with software, by developing tools to quantify stocks of carbon stored in vegetation using AI applied to satellite or drone data.
Using current quantification techniques, it is not possible to provide accurate and regular data on the performance of forestry projects, which leads to issues with corruption, fraud and uncertainty. This leads to significant financial and reputational risk for corporates purchasing offsets and makes it hard for high quality forest projects to secure fair prices and low cost finance at large scale.
By providing a quantitative sequestration audit trail and associated risk ratings, Sylvera intends to underpin effective voluntary carbon markets. Its 2023 funding round is being put towards its entrance into the US market and hires across engineering and product.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
279% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Unlimited Holiday
- Christmas Shut Down
- Private Medical & Life insurance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Monthly Friday lunch budget
- Team social budgets
- One-off WFH allowance
- Enhanced Paid Sick Leave
- Mental Health support
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Allister Furey
(CEO & Co-Founder)Allister is a repeat entrepreneur with a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA from London Business School. As well as 10 years developing technology in the renewables industry, he has built and operated business units in Asia, Continental Europe and the UK
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