Staff Software Engineer

What is Sylvera anyway? ‍👩‍👨🌳

Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action. 

Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera. 

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact. 

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 150+ employees across the world with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date. 

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻

We’re looking for a mission-driven, Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in shaping our technology platform. This is an opportunity to work across our data-intensive backend applications & our customer facing product, driving the creation of robust, reliable systems. As a Staff Engineer, you will also enable a small, dynamic team and collaborate across functions to ensure scalable and effective solutions. Specific responsibilities will include:

- Providing technical leadership to the team, working closely with our VP of Engineering to define and execute our platform strategy.

- Developing and maintaining capabilities that power our platform, including APIs and front-end components, enabling seamless integration with internal and external tools.

- Collaborating with teams across the organisation to enhance workflows while ensuring consistent approaches to testing, versioning, and metadata management of our systems.

- Designing and implementing data-intensive backend solutions, ensuring synchronicity between our data layers and GraphQL API layer.

- Applying an agile development approach to incrementally build and refine complex, full-stack solutions.

- Leveraging React, Next.js, TypeScript, and other technologies to build clean, performant user interfaces where needed.

-Sharing knowledge and mentoring team members to elevate the overall technical expertise of the group.

We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚

- Can demonstrate extensive experience designing and scaling complex platforms across the stack.

- Has strong Python skills for backend development and data-intensive workflows.

- Is experienced in building modern, responsive user interfaces with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL.

- Is comfortable working across the stack, from front-end to back-end and infrastructure.

- Is passionate about solving complex technical challenges and excited about working with diverse and rich climate datasets.

- Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earth.

- Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience.

We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description

Benefits 💰

- Equity in a rapidly growing startup

- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance 

- Unlimited annual leave - and encouragement to actually use it!

- Enhanced parental leave 

- Up to 20 days paid sick leave 

- £500 WFH allowance 

- No corners cut in having the best tech to do your job

- Access to Mental Health support via Spill

- Monthly team socials

Location 🌍 

UK (with access to an office in London if you wanted to come in) 

Our Values 🙌

Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures.

Stay curious: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.

Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us. 

Collaborate and challenge with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each others’ success and make the company stronger in the long-run.

Empower Customers: Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we’re serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact.

What if you’re a partial fit? 🌱

We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description. 

Equal employment opportunity 🌈

Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.