Staff Software Engineer, Climate X
Python, React, AWS
3 days a week in office
Climate risk intelligence and analytics
Job no longer available
Climate risk intelligence and analytics
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Climate X's mission is unlocking the power of climate risk data and analytics to build a better future for everyone and everything on our planet.
Role
Who you are
- Strong Python development experience, with expertise in building scalable backend services and APIs
- Proven experience with modern React development, including state management and component architecture
- Proven track record of AWS / Cloud-based application architecture and development
- Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
- Experience building data pipelines and working with semi-structured/unstructured data
- Strong background in startup environments with rapid iteration and scaling challenges
- Previous experience mentoring, coaching, or leading engineering teams, either formally or informally
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams
- Excellence in communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Track record of successfully delivering large-scale technical projects
- Experience in technical planning and roadmap development
- Ability to balance technical debt with delivery priorities
- Strong track record of building consensus across engineering teams
- Experience in conducting technical interviews and growing engineering teams
- Proven ability to develop and maintain engineering best practices and documentation
Desirable
- Advanced understanding of Python numerical libraries and application frameworks
- Experience developing GIS applications using Python or JavaScript
- Knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial-optimised databases
- Experience with ArcGIS and/or QGIS and the GDAL/OGR library
- Background in environmental data analysis and visualization
- Experience working with climate science or environmental datasets
- Previous exposure to financial risk modelling or similar quantitative domains
- Experience with real-time data processing and analytics platforms
What the job involves
- As Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across our product suite, including Spectra, Adapt, and our upcoming Spectra for Corporates platform. Working alongside two other technical leads and reporting to the Director of Engineering, you'll shape the technical direction of our enterprise solutions while maintaining hands-on involvement in development
- Your time will be thoughtfully balanced between strategic technical leadership and hands-on development. While the majority of your focus will be dedicated to complex technical challenges and system architecture, you'll invest meaningful time in mentoring and managing select team members and providing technical oversight that elevates our entire engineering organisation
- Architect and implement scalable full-stack solutions handling complex, semi-structured data streams
- Design and evolve our enterprise-level server-side frameworks for efficient data processing and analysis
- Lead technical design reviews and establish best practices across our engineering teams
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members while fostering a culture of engineering excellence
- Drive technical strategy for integration between our Spectra, Adapt, and Carta platforms
- Collaborate with data scientists and researchers to optimize our climate risk models for production environments
- Champion scalable architecture decisions that support our growing user base and expanding feature set
Application process
- 1. Telephone call with Talent team (15-30 mins)
- 2. Video call with Engineering Director (30 mins)
- 3. Take home challenge (2 hours max)
- 4. Online or in office Skillset interview (1 hour)
- 5. Online or in office Culture interview (1 hour)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Climate Change is one of the most pressing global issues and the UK has already set the way for clean and green growth and established a National Adaptation Programme. Therefore, there has been a rise in Climate-tech companies developed in the UK to address these issues. In comparison to ESG-assessment platforms or climate fintechs focused on cleaner investment and climate mitigation, Climate X aims to change the way the world manages assets, property and infrastructure through a new vertical of climate adaptation software. They are modelling climate effects that are inevitable due to past and current greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate X works through an API which simulates multiple climate projections and then estimates how these climate projections would damage the assets. The platform then quantifies this damage and models the impacts' valuations and cashflows. Its models will update automatically and self-calibrate in response to the latest available scientific data and will be built on a cloud-based architecture for seamless access, secure data exchange and integration.
The future of Climate X is promising, as it is working with the UK’s leading climate scientists, AI specialists, financial services professionals and the London School of Economics. Adding to its strong position, a Series A of $18M awarded in 2024 will be used to grow its market share internationally. If successful, Climate X will save customers millions of pounds, helping individuals and organizations to be more resilient to climate change, meet incoming regulatory requirements and make smarter investment decisions.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$17.8m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$5.2m
SEED
Total funding: $24.4m
Company benefits
- Share Options
- 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews
- Annual Christmas party and Summer event
- Pension
- Pawternity
- 36.5 days annually (including bank holidays)
- Core hours 10am-4pm and flexibility case by case
- Working from abroad (3 weeks per year after 1 year tenure)
- Oliva Mental Health and Wellbeing access (therapy & coaching)
- Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)
- A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office
- Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Company values
- Customer Empathy
- Team & Belonging
- Purposeful Impact
- Deep Diversity
- Empowered Ownership
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Kamil Kluza
(COO & Co-Founder)Kamil leverages over a decade of expertise in climate risk analytics, regulatory compliance, and financial strategy to empower organisations to tackle climate impacts with data insights.
Lukman Ahmed
(CEO & Co-Founder)Over nine years at HSBC, Lukky led risk and transformation initiatives worldwide. As CEO, he's brought 4 years of impact-driven leadership, building climate resilience for global financial services.
People progressing
Aatish joined as a Data Engineer in 2021 and has since become the Director of Engineering, leading and expanding the team with 15 new hires, including new DevOps and Data Engineering functions.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Climate X
Lukky Ahmed (CEO and Co-founder)
- Diversity matters: we’re feeling very strongly about diversity with founders and existing team members coming from a variety of backgrounds. We’re not building just a team but a place of innovation where brains and fun coexist to address the biggest challenge our society is facing now.
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