Senior Python Engineer, CarbonChain
3+ days a week in office
Carbon accounting for the world's biggest emitters
Posted today
Carbon accounting for the world's biggest emitters
21-100 employees
Posted today
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transition the world's supply chain to a net-zero economy.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong focus on Python
- Proficient in developing RESTful APIs and integrating with external services
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL, Docker, and cloud platforms. GCP preferred
- Familiarity with distributed systems, background processing (e.g., Celery), and message queues (e.g., PubSub)
- Experience working in early-stage startups or fast-paced environments
- A product-minded approach: you think about how your work impacts users
- Passion for climate solutions and a genuine interest in sustainability
- An ability to work in our London office 3 days per week in Camden Market
Desirable
- Experience with data-intensive applications or carbon accounting platforms
- Knowledge of carbon footprint methodologies or ESG reporting
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a highly motivated and experienced Backend Python Engineer to help scale our product, infrastructure, and core data pipelines. You’ll play a key role in shaping the technical foundation of our platform and working with a collaborative team of engineers, product managers, and sustainability experts
- Design and implement robust, scalable backend services using Python (FastAPI preferred)
- Build and maintain core APIs that power customer workflows and third-party integrations
- Work with data engineering to ingest, transform, and expose environmental and operational datasets
- Ensure high system reliability and performance by writing testable and maintainable code
- Collaborate closely with the product and design teams to iterate quickly on features
- Implement best practices for code quality, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure-as-code
- Participate in technical architecture discussions and make foundational decisions
Our take
A global effort is invested in mitigating global climate change, with an increasing number of countries starting to impose fines for companies that fail to reduce their carbon emissions. One of the main issues faced by these companies is the lack of technology available to track emissions and monitor progress after adopting solutions to diminish climate impact. CarbonChain aims to solve this problem by offering a service that provides accurate accounting for a company’s carbon footprint.
The company differentiates itself through the fact that it aims to help companies from the world's most polluting industries - oil & gas, mining, metals, minerals, and agriculture - which account for 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The innovation of CarbonChain comes from the fact that the company has created digital twins of every piece of equipment used in the aforementioned industries; if it cannot find information about the equipment used by a company, it is able to find answers by contacting the producer of that equipment directly.
Founded by ex-employees of gas, mining and oil industries, CarbonChain is led by an expert team. Having established its current services, future phases include features that will allow customers to access their ratings based on industry benchmarks and reported data. The company will also take into consideration customers' future carbon plans to ascertain a more comprehensive picture.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2023
$10m
SERIES A
Mar 2021
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $11m
Company benefits
- Quarterly team retreats: We invest in having fun and team-building. We have weekly team lunches, regular socials and week-long retreats every quarter
- Remote work friendly: We provide a home office set-up allowance, a £1,000 remote work budget to spend a week working away, and we ask you come to the office around 2 days a week
- And more...: We subsidize your gym classes, provide 26 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a £2,000 annual learning allowance.
Company HQ
Camden Town, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Adam Hearne
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Operations and Product Management at Medopad and a Senior Program Manager at Amazon.
Roheet Shah
(Co-Founer & COO)Previously a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and a Senior Vendor Manager at Amazon.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at CarbonChain
Nicolas Nebout (Senior Account Executive)
- At CarbonChain, we believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team is essential for driving innovation and achieving our mission to enable customers to decarbonize their sectors. We are committed to fostering a culture that values diversity and actively building a team that reflects various backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. CarbonChain is dedicated to continuous learning, improvement, and transparency in our DEI efforts, which are integral to our vision for a sustainable future.
- We run a DEI survey every 6 months, conduct monthly DEI office hour sessions, and track DEI initiatives as part of our quarterly business review process
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