Ruby Engineer

We are excited to be seeking an experienced Ruby on Rails software developer to contribute to the development of a platform that will increase the use of low-carbon, sustainable building products in commercial real estate projects globally. 

ABOUT TANGIBLE

Building materials are responsible for approximately 11% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and real estate development firms are facing increasing investor pressure, regulations, and tenant demand to build more sustainably.

Tangible is a software platform for real estate developers and general contractors to measure, understand, and reduce the embodied carbon of developments portfolio-wide.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Location: Fully remote or hybrid in San Francisco 

What you bring:

• You are product-minded builder with a proven track record of architecting & building complex web applications 
• You have demonstrated experience with Ruby on Rails. 
• You have deep expertise with complex database schemas and integration with them using ActiveRecord and SQL. 
• You’re familiar with the demands of building products in a startup environment and comfortable with ambiguity
• You are deeply passionate about putting your skills to work to address climate change and eager to join an ambitious, fun-loving, and radically caring team that imagines the world as it should be rather than as it is
• You’ve been building software for at least 5 years

Some of the things you’ll be working on:

• Architecting the commercial real estate & construction platform that will prevent the emission of millions of kilograms of CO2.
• Designing, building, testing, deploying and operating a rapidly scaling web application using Ruby on Rails & React
• Ingesting 3D models of buildings to measure and optimize the carbon related to the construction of the building.
• Using ML / AI to rapidly solve problems in the real estate & construction industries
• Evolving our database of building materials, manufacturers, commercial real estate projects and their carbon footprints, material health impacts, costs, and more
• Developing integrations with other software platforms across construction, design, procurement, and reporting; e.g., Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and carbon accounting platforms
• Collaborating with UX, Product, Research and our founding team to build the product.

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