Senior Full Stack Engineer, Novata
PrivCo
£90-110k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
ESG platform for private markets
Job no longer available
ESG platform for private markets
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£90-110k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for an engineer who likes to work on products in their infancy and likes to roll up your sleeves and work across the full stack, building components, creating API endpoints, and stitching together cloud services to deliver real end-user value, fast
- You have 5+ years of demonstrable experience developing testable, scalable web applications using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and relational SQL
- You have a start-up mentality and are responsible, energetic, ambitious, adaptable, and willing to jump in wherever you might be needed
- You have a product engineering mindset, are passionate about customer outcomes, and can visualize things from the users' perspective
- You like solving hard problems and can apply your creative thinking to deliver pragmatic solutions whilst working within various constraints
- Sound judgment, and you understand how to balance building the right thing over building the thing right
- You have a keen mind for detail, have a no-compromise approach to quality, and are committed to delivering the best experience possible to our users
- You thrive in an inclusive, respectful, and highly collaborative work environment where every voice matters and healthy debate is encouraged
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a well-balanced Senior Full Stack Engineer to join a newly formed squad with the goal of developing a new sustainability reporting platform that meets the needs of what we call ‘private companies’
- This is very much a ‘startup within a startup’ squad, hence you’d be a key driver in helping the organization expand into a new market segment
- There is still a lot of uncertainty around what the real customer and user value is, so you’ll need to have an experimental, iterative mindset where through rapid delivery you’ll work to uncover what our customers need
- You’ll need to orient yourself quickly with this new business domain, work collaboratively with various stakeholders, and bring to bear your problem-solving skills to deliver an MVP that will help Novata to establish a foothold in this emerging market
- Applying your skills, knowledge, and experience to help develop a new sustainability platform suitable for a new customer segment and market
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders, understanding their pains and inefficiencies, and turning those problems into high-value deliverables
- Ensuring our platform and tooling are robust, secure, scalable, and have a solid foundation that other engineers are excited about building upon
- Contributing to our guilds, keeping abreast of what other engineers in the collective are up to, and creatively reusing and adapting components to get value shipped as quickly as possible
- Coaching and mentoring other members of the collective, helping them to grow by improving their skills and abilities
- Fulfill additional duties as requested
- We use and teach:
- TypeScript, React, and Node.js for our platform
- Figma, Storybook, and BrowserStack for our Design System
- Postgres, Metabase, and Snowflake for data storage
- GitHub for source control and Jira for change management
- Docker to package our services into containers
- Harness, GitHub, and Argo CD for CI/CD
- DataDog for monitoring and observability
- AWS for infrastructure, specifically EKS, RDS and S3
- Terragrunt and Terraform for infrastructure orchestration
Salary benchmarks
Our take
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investment has been on a remarkable rise, increasing by over 50% in recent years and pulling in nearly $500B annually. This surge is driven in part by a growing collective pressure to invest in companies that prioritize sustainability and ethical practices.
With this trend accelerating, there's a clear need for better tools to track and analyze ESG data. That's where Novata comes in. The company offers robust solutions that allow investors to monitor and assess the ESG performance of their portfolios, helping them make more informed, responsible investment decisions.
Backing Novata is an impressive list of investors, including the Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, S&P Global, and Hamilton Lane. The company's first funding round raised a staggering $21M - one of the highest ever for a public benefit corporation. This momentum continued in 2024 when the company attracted new investors and strengthened its financial backing, positioning itself to expand its sustainability solutions and enter expand its geographies while securing its place as a key player in the ESG space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2023
$30m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$21m
SERIES A
Total funding: $51m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefit packages (medical, dental, vision and pension)
- Robust leave policies (PTO, parental leave, VTO)
- Opportunities for personal and professional development
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Alex Friedman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former White House Fellow in the Clinton Administration and an Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Co-founder of Jackson Hole Economics, a non-profit research organization in economics, politics, the environment and finance. Served as CEO, CIO & CFO for a number of publicly listed financial services companies including GAM Investments, UBS, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Josh Green
(Co-Founder & COO)Prior to co-founding Novata, spent 15 years as CEO of trade data insights platform Panjiva (acquired by S&P Global in 2018). Former assistant CEO at growth investment firm the iFormation Group, created by technology VC Boston Consulting Group.
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