Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Data
About Scope3
Scope3 is the industry’s leading collaborative sustainability platform. By modeling the complex digital advertising supply chain, we help brands measure and dramatically reduce digital waste to reduce carbon emissions from advertising and increase the efficacy of advertising investment. This is an exceptional opportunity to build a company alongside great people and make a difference in one of the most important issues facing the planet: the climate crisis.
We’re a reliably-funded company of 70 folks distributed across the globe. We are fortunate to be led by an experienced leadership team, many of whom designed and engineered the digital advertising landscape as we know it today. The company secured $20M in Series B funding led by GV in Oct 2023 (additional investors include Venrock, Rucker Park, Room40 Ventures, and Craft Ventures). Scope3 has significant market traction with more than 70+ customers and is experiencing accelerated growth.
Scope3 is a fully remote company and largely asynchronous to provide flexible working hours and to operate globally, with concentrations in New York and Europe. At this time, we are hiring in Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, and the United States.
Engineering at Scope3
Our engineering team values a high-level understanding of our comprehensive technical ecosystem. We prioritize this technical familiarity in order to facilitate effective collaboration, cooperation, and productivity in a cross-functional environment. Our tech stack includes:
- Node.js for backend applications with Prisma ORM & PostgreSQL
- REST and GraphQL APIs
- React w/ Next.js for frontend applications
- Typescript throughout the entire stack
- Shared design system and client-side querying using Apollo
- Material-UI for design system components
About The Role
We are excited to add a Senior Software Engineer to our Data Platform team, ideally based in a North American or European time zone. Reporting to the CTO, this individual contributor role will be responsible for helping build the underlying platform and shared tools to empower data engineers and data scientists.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience building data platforms in high volume/scaling environments
- 3+ years of experience working independently in a senior capacity
- Building and maintaining large scale complex data pipelines
- Advanced proficiency in Node, Python, SQL and data serialization
- Demonstrable success working effectively with product managers and other internal stakeholders of our data (such as, services and customer success)
Preference may be given to candidates with the following:
- Experience with Golang, Typescript
- Experience working in advertising technology, marketing, climate tech industries
- Experience working at globally distributed remote startups
Our Culture is rooted in …
- A passion for the environment and climate work. We are a mission-driven company, and this is what motivates us to work hard and deliver outcomes for our customers.
- A desire to communicate clearly and empathetically while working asynchronously. We are remote-first and have been operating across time zones from day one, so we do a lot of collaboration using Notion, Miro, and other tools.
- We celebrate healthy conflict in the workplace; we focus on the solutions and we move on quickly.
- The ability and accountability to deliver what we promise. We do what we say we will do, and we don’t make promises we can’t keep.
- Experience driving systemic change. Our mission is to decarbonize advertising and this requires a holistic approach to re-imagining and inspiring an industry movement at a global scale.