Software Engineer

Do you want to work on the most pressing problem of our generation? 

We’re building the infrastructure for the net zero transition, and we’re looking for brilliant engineers, designers, and data scientists who want to help define a low carbon future.

Decarbonizing the economy requires a granular, real-time view of where emissions come from and how they might be reduced. We build software to automate the carbon footprinting of supply chains. Banks, traders, and manufacturers use our product to tame the complexity of international supply networks, identify the most carbon-intensive parts, and find greener alternatives. We were part of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 batch and have secured backing from the UK government’s innovation arm, InnovateUK, the NatWest accelerator and the London Business School Incubator.

To join Carbon Chain, you’ll be a keen technologist who loves to learn from others. Our company is made up of 10 passionate people with expertise ranging from oil refining to deep learning. Between us we’ve run Amazon’s European supply chain, built JustEat’s corporate meal delivery platform, and monitored industrial emissions with satellites for Al Gore. We’ve got MBAs and PhDs but we know that there’s a lot we don’t know, and we’re hoping you can help fill that gap.

What will you be responsible for at Carbon Chain?

We are at the start of our journey and want to build the right things, the right way. We are cloud-first, allowing us to scale at will and experiment with adding new services quickly. As a Software Engineer you’ll play a key role within the company, taking responsibility for your team’s services and the tech that powers them. You’ll take pride in developing your team and its relationship with the wider business, getting involved in the end-to-end delivery process and owning projects of varying sizes.

You can expect to have:

• Ownership of your projects
• An independent path to production
• The ability to make real changes with tangible business value

The core of the system relies on a Java Spring Boot application, but we aren’t shy to add other tools that make us ship valuable features better and faster. Other tools comprise Python, Angular/Typescript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cognito, but our cloud-based infrastructure enables us to explore new technologies parallel with our existing platform. We’d love to bring on engineers who come from diverse backgrounds to help us explore new angles of solving business challenges and deliver solutions that wow our customers.

We are particularly interested in strong Java and Python developers (ideally with exposure to Spring-like frameworks), front-end developers who are passionate about modern JavaScript frameworks (preferably Angular), or people from any modern Web development stack environment.

Our only must-haves are possessing a hunger to solve business challenges using technology and the ability to build close relationships with your team.

Which tools, technologies, and processes will you work with?

• Containerised applications are the key to our technology vision allowing us to replicate production environments locally and scale services at will.
• Object-oriented code forms the bulk of our codebase.
• PostgreSQL and DynamoDB managed databases form the persistence layer - you’ll learn to navigate document and relational databases and appreciate the values in both worlds.
• Infrastructure automation is owned by the whole team, helping to spread the DevOps mentality across the whole technology department (and beyond).
• Testing approaches from unit testing to integration testing are key to delivering reliable and maintainable solutions.
• Quality assurance is owned by the team themselves - we believe that full cycle product ownership should sit tightly within the team.
• Agile development, using various approaches from Scrum toElephant Carpaccio, helps us deliver software in small iterations, learning and course-correcting in the process to make sure we deliver the right improvements.
• GitHub PRs are an integral part of our core development flow - with reviews to help share knowledge and improve quality.
• Continuous delivery is the approach we strive for - with metrics that help us optimise parts of the pipeline that need it the most.
• Teamwork and collaboration are fundamental to the delivery of our solutions. We encourage solutionizing between the team and the wider business.

You don’t need to be a pro at all of these skills to apply for the role, but we’d love to hear about any relevant knowledge and experiences that you have in these areas.

What we’re offering

• Competitive salary + generous equity package
• Flexible working hours - we encourage regular breaks and being AFK (away from keyboard) to support your wellbeing
• Flexible working location (we like to meet in the office couple of times every week)
• £1000 annual development allowance for you to spend on developing your current skills and learning new things
• Dev equipment of your choice
• Regular social activities
• Generous amount of holidays

If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join a Carbon Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!