Staff Engineer - Climate Tech

Role: Chief Staff Engineer – Climate Tech
Location: Fully Remote but you have to be based in the East Coast, USA, or Mainland Europe
Salary: Up to £150k with generous benefits + equity
*PLEASE NOTE: Python/FastAPI + React/Typescript expertise is essential*
Wow.
That’s how we felt after the briefing call with the Head of Engineering. Why? Because this opportunity really does have everything.
Work with a purpose that is changing the world for the better? Check.
Backed by serious investment whilst also doubling revenue YoY? Check.
Remote work, with super-talented colleagues spread across the globe? Check.
Great pay, benefits and culture? Check, check, check!
This *ridiculously* cool climate-tech company is at the start-up/scale-up inflection point.
They’re moving past the days where problems were solved with unstructured grit, where intuition and random brilliance were the order of the day. They’re now looking for sanity and scalability, and you’ll play a leading role in this transformation.
Their team develops a unique product that helps organisations proactively monitor and manage one of the major (and up until now, less-addressed) effects of climate change. It is a devastating problem that is wreaking havoc across the world, but with the products you’ll be developing you’ll directly be contributing to a safer and more stable world.
With a new round of investment and new customers signing up for their groundbreaking product, they are on the cusp of a major recruitment drive, but none of their roles are more important than this Chief Software Engineer role.
Currently, they have a talented team of software engineers with a front-end bias, and little in the way of deep Python software development experience. With these roles, they want to help balance this, by hiring a super-capable Chief Software Engineer with expert-level proficiency in full-stack, cloud-driven (GCP, Azure or AWS) development in React, Angular or Typescript along with Python/FastAPI (this is vital).
You must also have a genuine interest in the sustainability movement and working for a company that is mission-driven as you’ll be working with super-passionate people who care deeply about our planet.
You’ll have no formal line management responsibilities in this role but will lead/coach the team and drive the adoption of industry-leading technology and standards across the engineering team. You’ll be a flexible and sensitive technical leader, able to win over colleagues who are working through this cultural and technical transition using your excellent relationship-building, leadership and collaboration skills.
The role will be remote based with occasional travel into London and/or Amsterdam, and you can be based anywhere in the US, mainland Europe or on the East Coast of the US (but able to be flexible to GMT/CET working patterns).
On offer is a salary of up to £150k with generous benefits + equity.
Please apply to find out if you might be suitable (all our applicants are screened by an experienced, human recruiter and not AI)
We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background