Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Full Stack Software Engineer 

Role Overview: 

Want to solve unique, large scale, highly complex technical problems? Pivotal is seeking an experienced senior full-Stack Software Engineer to play a crucial role in supporting and scaling our products. The role will work cross-functionally to enhance agile delivery capability for the company, ensuring our customers get access to valuable data & analytics quickly, efficiently and accurately. It will be high visibility and impactful in building and scaling our data & analytics platform. Join us in providing the data people and companies need to invest in positive outcomes for nature! 

Responsibilities: 

• Full stack web/mobile application development, from database, to API, to front-end. 

• Create APIs in Python that interface to both relational databases and cloud storage systems.   

• Interface with open-sources systems that support geospatial analysis and expert annotation e.g. QGIS, Label Studio.  

• Design and build front ends for management, reporting and monitoring of our data pipelines, field work and reports for clients.   

• Design and manage relational databases (PostgreSQL).  

• Collaborate with the team to continuously improve the reliability, observability and scaling of critical data processing systems. 

• Work as part of a small agile team and taking responsibility for testing, documentation and peer-review of pull requests.  

• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, impact, innovation, and health. Potential for people management dependent on the experience of the candidate.

You should apply if you have:  

• 5-7 years’ experience in Python frameworks such as Django or Flask and are comfortable working across the full stack from database, to API, to front-end.  

• Proficiency in Python and SQL use for data analysis and the ability to write clean, reproduceable and well-documented code. Experience with Typescript & React a plus. 

• Proficiency using Git for version control and experience of code review processes.  

• Strategic mindset and experience with roadmap and sprint planning, with demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a product-focused team. 

•  A love for resolving complex problems and taking a proactive approach to analysing issues and generating solutions.  

• Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes. 

• A highly analytical and technical mindset with an interest in deploying tech to optimise it to meet our needs.

• A positive attitude, ability to handle multiple projects, the self-motivation to learn by doing and able to quickly acquire new technical skills and domain knowledge.  

• A passion for the preservation of nature and an entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building and growing a successful company, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment. 

• (Ideally) a base in the UK or Western Europe. 

About Pivotal: 

We are a team of ecologists and technologists who believe good business must be good for nature. We are revolutionising the nature space by linking biodiversity commitments and actions to real, auditable data. Evidence of real improvements in biodiversity is critical to the expansion of innovative financial mechanisms which fund the restoration of nature. Without this evidence, investors are exposed to the risk of false promises, human bias and reputational damage. 

Following our €5.6m seed round investment from some of Europe’s leading VCs and advocates for a better planet, we are growing our team to support our next stage of growth. We are here to build an institution that changes the way the world collaboratively works on one of the largest problems our planet is facing, and the only way we can do that is by bringing together a team who is passionate about restoring nature in new and exciting ways. 

What we offer you:  

• Impact; you will be joining us in the early days of the business giving you plenty of opportunities to contribute to developing an entirely new discipline that will change how value is unlocked from nature  

• Industry competitive compensation and equity in the business  

• Autonomy; we want to build a culture of trust & give you the space to do your best work  

• A fun and diverse team of smart and very driven people  

• A very competitive employee participation program  

• Remote-first company 

We are a remote first diverse team with diverse backgrounds. We expect there will be areas of development so please do apply if you don’t feel that you meet all the criteria. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity, disability status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.