Software Engineer, Supercritical
£50-60k
More information about location
Carbon removal marketplace
Open for applications
Carbon removal marketplace
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£50-60k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring radical transparency to the carbon removal market
Role
Who you are
- You’re comfortable working across the stack, whether that’s building APIs, working with databases, or developing user interfaces
- You have experience implementing frontend code using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- You have experience in a high-level language (e.g. Ruby, Python and JavaScript)
- You have experience with a web framework (e.g. Rails, Django)
- You’ve worked with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and understand how to design and query them efficiently
- Have a quality mindset and are passionate about testing
- You’re a self-driven and proactive engineer who can unblock themselves by asking questions and collaborating with others
- You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and working through open-ended problems
What the job involves
- You'll report to the Director of Engineering and join our small team of three full-stack engineers
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help us build and improve our product
- You’ll be working across the stack, contributing to both backend and frontend development in our marketplace product, as well as internal tooling
- You don’t need to be an expert in everything, but you should be comfortable picking up new technologies and collaborating with the team to ship great features
- This role is ideal for someone developing in their career who wants to grow their skills while working in a highly collaborative environment
- Working with product, design and the wider team to understand requirements and shape features
- Writing simple, readable, maintainable code across the full stack in our Rails applications
- Designing, documenting and implementing database model changes, and writing database migrations as needed
- Participating in code reviews with the rest of the team
- Deploying and monitoring features to ensure they perform well in production
- Learning from and contributing to a growing engineering culture
- If you want to learn more about our engineering culture, check out our intro page: https://gosupercritical.notion.site/engineering-at-supercritical
Application process
- Talent partner screening call (30 mins)
- Interview with our Director of Engineering (1 hour)
- Technical interview with our Principal Architect (1.5 hours)
- (Optional) Meet the team (30 mins)
- An opportunity to meet some of the wider team, such as Design, Product and other disciplines
- Founder interview (45 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Supercritical is a startup offering businesses the option to reach carbon net zero output. It measures a company’s carbon footprint, creates an actionable plan for reducing emissions, and recommends a portfolio of high-quality carbon removal offsets to buy. It does this through unprecedented transparency of price, availability and quality, so its customers know exactly how its carbon output is being reduced, and what effect this reduction will have.
Businesses create a lot of pollution that either needs to be lowered or removed from the atmosphere to keep the earth’s warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. With a greater carbon footprint than the entire aviation industry, Supercritical has made the tech industry an initial target.
When companies buy conventional offsets, the carbon emitted still remains in the atmosphere as someone else gets paid not to emit the same amount of carbon. Supercritical differentiates itself by focusing exclusively on carbon removal offsets that actively remove toxins from the atmosphere through methods such as tree planting, biochar, enhanced weathering, bio-oil sequestration, and direct air capture. It partners its customers with teams of climate scientists on carbon removal procurement, offering live pricing and granular vetting to simplify carbon reduction for the fluid and volatile tech industry.
Supercritical counts well-known businesses The Economist Group, Virgin Atlantic and Rothschild & Co as customers. It is using its Series A funding from Lightspeed Ventures to grow its carbon removal to a mass scale, and it is well placed to do so with its unique strategy.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2023
$13m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$2.7m
SEED
Total funding: $15.7m
Company benefits
- Generous stock options
- Purchase high quality carbon removal offsets for your personal emissions from our inventory
- Unlimited annual leave
- 1 company-wide day off every month
- Remote-first work with the option to use our London Shoreditch office whenever you want
- £1000 annual wellbeing allowance plus a working-from-home equipment budget up to £500
- Monthly company socials and annual company multi-day offsites
Company values
- Ownership mentality: We relish autonomy and we create it for others. We are deeply curious and thrive on understanding the root cause of complex problems. We take ownership over our own and our team’s development by giving and soliciting direct and actionable feedback.
- Move fast: We identify the most important problems to solve and cut everything else. We test ideas early so we don’t waste time on dead ends. We default to action and deliver awesome results.
- Radiate positive energy: We come to problems with energy and passion. We nurture new ideas and engage positively in testing them. We inspire our colleagues to go further and are resilient to set backs. We recharge by taking time off. We are here for a great day, not a long day.
- Communicate proactively: We communicate simply and directly. We broadcast updates, insights and lessons learnt, especially when things haven’t gone to plan. We give as much context as possible so our teammates can make great decisions.
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle You
(CEO)Co-founder of Songkick and was CPO for 9 years. Product Consultant & Advisor for several startups and was a Venture Partner at LocalGlobe. Current Board Member of Subak and Member of Getting to Zero Steering Group.
Aaron Randall
(CTO)Progressed from Software Developer to CTO of Songkick over the course of 7 years. Previously interim CTO and then Technical Advisor at Lingumi.
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