Data Engineer [NYC]

About Us

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.

To join CarbonChain, 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.

Working at CarbonChain

We encourage every member of our team to be the best they can be, whether that’s developing skills through their learning budget or participating in reading groups. Our work requires everybody to straddle the physical and digital worlds, and a growth mindset is essential. One week you might become an expert in the production of copper and figure out how to represent copper electrorefining in Java, whilst the next might be spent modelling the emissions of container ships and visualizing how they compare to LNG tankers in D3.js.

Our software has to be clever to represent the insane complexity of real-world supply chains, but clever software is worthless if nobody wants to use it. We’re focused on building intuitive software which minimizes cognitive load. If people love our tools, they’ll use them to make the changes the planet needs.

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 Senior Data Engineer you’ll play a key role within the company, taking responsibility for our core data infrastructure and its evolution to support the company’s growth. You will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of a performant and cost efficient data pipelines, as well as contribute to the overall CarbonChain data architecture, with the goal of expanding our data capabilities - feature development, analytics, and ML. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality data sets and features, that empower our key business and product decision makings, and enable CarbonChain’s growth and customer success.

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 Python application, but we aren’t shy to add other tools that make us ship valuable features better and faster. Other tools comprise Java (Spring Boot), Angular/Typescript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Neo4j, Google Identity, 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.

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, Neo4j and DynamoDB form the persistence layer - you’ll learn to navigate relational, graph, and document databases and appreciate their respective values.
• Infrastructure automation is owned by the whole team, helping to spread the DevOps mindset across the whole tech 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 the ownership of the full development cycle should sit tightly within the team.
• Agile development, using various approaches from Scrum to Elephant Carpaccio, helps us deliver software in small iterations, learning and course-correcting in the process to make sure that what we deliver has an impact.
• GitHub PRs are an integral part of our core development flow - with reviews to improve quality and share knowledge.
• 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 tech and the wider business.

What we require from applicants

• Right to work in the UK and willingness to come to London office 2+ days a week
• A passion for environmental issues
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data engineering or relevant backend development, with a proven track record of building highly scalable, performant, and reliable data pipelines
• Extensive experience with data modelling for large distributed data warehouses and/or lakehouses (or a similar cloud based) solutions, you’re able to discuss in-depth general principles and trade-offs of different modelling approaches
• Experience in working with “modern data stack” standard data frameworks and adjacent tools – such as Fivetran, Airbyte, BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, dbt, etc.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners, especially with teams outside of the product and engineering group
• Working proficiency in one of the programming languages (Python, Go, Scala etc.)
• Product mindset to embrace business needs and produce scalable data/engineering solutions
• Experience leading technical design discussions and providing guidance on best practices, coding standards, and architecture principles
• The grit and energy to work in an early stage startup

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
• Tech equipment of your choice
• Regular social activities
• Generous amount of holidays

We're striving to build a diverse team and we would love to hear from applicants from backgrounds less frequently represented in technology, be that in terms of gender, race, or professional background.

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!