Full Stack Engineer, Root Global
Carbon operating system for food industry
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Carbon operating system for food industry
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build software that helps food brands get to net zero emissions - by becoming the data infrastructure that powers pricing and purchasing decisions across the food industry.
Role
Who you are
- You have built full-stack web applications before – that people are actually using
- You have worked in an early stage VC-backed startup (pre-seed/seed), preferably with a B2B business model
- You feel comfortable with broad product requirements and enjoy participating in the product conceptualisation phase
- You feel comfortable guiding teams through technical troubleshooting and delivering feedback on topics beyond technical performance
What the job involves
- Build and scale our software products with a sense of full ownership
- In the first 6 months, your focus will be on
- Coding (this is a very hands-on role) our web application – frontend, backend and infrastructure
- Adjusting and expanding our tech stack where necessary
- Setting up and improving our infrastructure set-up – with a focus on database structure, data pipelines and analytics, which is a big part of the value we offer to our customers
- Setting the foundations for our engineering practices in line with our broader operating model to attract and retain the best engineering talent in Europe
- Our tech stack, much like our business and product, is still in its early stage. Joining at this point means you will still play a key role in defining what tools and technologies we will use to build up Root Global for years to come!
- Our product consists of multiple web applications our customers use, based on a backend consisting of user input data (procurement, product composition, etc.) calculation models, and plug-ins to various emission factor/LCA databases
- Frontend: React and Next.js
- Backend: Node.js w/Typescript, Nest.js, PostgreSQL
- Infra: AWS
Application process
- Our ambition is to offer you an end-to-end experience that is fast and uncomplicated
- Every step is a conversation, which is both an opportunity to meet more of the team as well as express yourself
- 30-minute Screening with the Talent Acquisition manager
- Goal: identify initial fit and gaps, clarify the process, and answer any questions
- 45 min Intro with the CTO
- Goal: Get to know each other, introduce Root Global and the role in more detail, and align on baseline expectations
- 60min Technical Interview with one Engineer from the team
- Goal: Discuss your technical experience, how it overlaps with the challenges ahead of us and what you can expect from the day-to-day of an Engineer at Root Global
- Approx. 2 hour office visit, where you will 1) meet the rest of the Engineering team on a team session where you will dive into our product and a real world scenario and 2) one or two (depending on availability) 30min coffee chats or walks - weather allowing - to get to know other team members outside of the Engineering team
Our take
Food chains are responsible for anywhere between 20% and 30% of global greenhouse emissions, and it’s something businesses can’t sweep under the rug any longer. Tightening regulations require that businesses disclose their climate performance - and stakeholders and customers are paying close attention. Bad climate practices are increasingly bad for business, and Root Global is looking to help businesses keep their performance up.
The Root software platform is designed to help food and beverage companies shoot for a zero-carbon future, by offering what Root hopes will become an industry-wide carbon operating system. Essentially, a database providing full life-cycle carbon emission data so businesses can make climate practise decisions based on accurate, comprehensive data - instead of the current system of upstream and downstream estimates.
This could prove a highly valuable proposition. Increasingly large numbers of companies are setting science-based climate targets, but research suggests the majority of these are distant, imprecise, or lack actionable road maps to get there. So solid carbon accounting software is in urgent demand, and if Root can build out the client base necessary for industry-wide coverage, it stands to make a substantial impact.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$2.8m
SEED
Total funding: $2.8m
Company benefits
- 🚚 Financial and administrative support with your move to Berlin
- 🏖️ Minimum of 25 days of vacation days per year. Yes, minimum
- 🧠 Individualised learning budget to get 3x the horse power
- 💌 Participation in a unique climate-tech and food-tech community
- 🚲 A mobility subscription that reduces or offsets your emissions from commuting
- 🎧 A Spotify subscription so you can do your most productive work
- 🏋️ A fitness subscription so you can clear your head in your time out of the office
- 👗 Probably the coolest startup merch in the world
Company values
- Think Clearly
- Execute Swiftly
- Have Fun
Company HQ
Moabit, Berlin, Germany
Articles
Leadership
Eric Oancea
(MD)Has held Strategy Consultant roles at McKinsey, BCG, and Oliver Wyman. Also worked in Company Building at BCG Digital Ventures, and co-founded women's startup community Cocoon.
Maurice Hensel
(MD)Previously MD of Frankfurt School Student Consulting, then took up various internships at HomeToGo, Luminovo, and Project A Ventures. Served as Head of Growth at Acapela, and co-founded Cocoon.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Root Global
- We train our team on biases during onboarding.
- Everyone has a dedicated colleague or an external stakeholder (e.g. angel investor) to talk to in case they felt uncomfortable in any situation or witnessed such situation. This is treated highly confidential.
- We continuously review our hiring, compensation and promotion practices to make sure we minimise unconscious biases and growing inequality between genders or other dimensions.
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