Full-Stack Engineer

ABOUT PLEDGE

Pledge is a climate infrastructure platform making it simple for businesses of every size to integrate carbon measurement & offsetting tools into their customer experience. The initial focus is set on high-emitting use cases such as logistics and transportation. The team is on a mission to make businesses climate aware and help accelerate their transition to net zero.

Pledge was founded in 2021 by early employees of Revolut and the co-founder of Freetrade. Investors include climate and b2b technology investors Visionaries Club, Lowercarbon Capital as well as the founders of Checkout.com and Unity.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As one of Pledge’s first engineer you'll play a defining role in the building and the quality of our products. You’ll work directly with the founders and be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

Pledge works with B2B customers across a range of sectors including logistics, transportation and e-commerce amongst others.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Defining the design and creation of scalable software

• Working as part of a cross-functional agile team including developers, product design, product management and other stakeholders in order to ideate software solutions

• Designing and developing client-side and server-side applications

• Designing and developing modern and secure internal and public APIs

• Writing clean, documented and functional code

• Testing software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

• Troubleshooting, debugging and upgrading software

• Writing technical documentation

• Working with data scientists and analysts to improve software

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• 2+ years of proven experience as a full-stack developer, ideally working on B2B SaaS products and APIs

• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies and common stacks

• Knowledge and experience of industry best practices and tools

• Experience developing web based applications

• Experience with the stack used at Pledge: React.JS, Node.JS, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, AWS

• Experience with Git, Docker and CI/CD

• Experience with serverless architecture, e.g. AWS Lambda

• Worked at a large tech company or high growth startup

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL

• You share Pledge’s mission to enable businesses to take action on their climate impact

• An appetite for technical and technological challenges

• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages

• Awareness of Development and Agile principles

• You can work autonomously and take ownership with a high degree of integrity

• Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time

• You operate best without lots of bureaucracy

• You approach work in a logical way and operate from first principles

BENEFITS

• Generous stock options - we are all owners of Pledge

• Competitive salary

• 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) increasing by 1 day each year of employment

• Pension plan

• Private health insurance (You’ll have full access to private online GP appointments, mental health support, and a Care Hub)

• Cycle to work scheme

• Regular team socials