Staff Engineer, Sylvera
App Platform
+ Equity
Software underpinning carbon markets
Open for applications
Software underpinning carbon markets
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make carbon offsets work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Can demonstrate extensive experience having designed and scaled public APIs (strong preference for GraphQL here)
- Embodies a ‘You build it you own it’ approach, with experience not just building out API platforms, but also ensuring these are reliable, secure, and performant
- Is experienced with implementing an agile approach for rapid and iterative development, breaking down complex work and deliverables to drive incremental gains
- Has a hands-on coding background in Typescript/Node.js (and who wishes to remain 20% to 50% hands on!)
- Can demonstrate a strong delivery track record, with proven experience driving the strategic direction of a small agile team, whether in a Lead, Senior or Staff Engineer capacity
- We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a mission-driven Staff Engineer to lead our App Platform Team, reporting directly to our CTO
- You will play an essential role in leading on technical initiatives for the team building core API-related components that sit between our data platform, and front end
- Playing a key role in the completion of the build and roll out of our public GraphQL carbon data API, ensuring compliance with non-functional requirements, as well as giving consideration for authentication and authorisation
- Devising and implementing clear strategies to shorten our time-to-value from data creation to customer deliverable, for the rapid creation of end to end solutions
- Applying an agile approach in terms of our development lifecycle, allowing us to build complex Back End solutions incrementally
- Longer term, as our apps continue to evolve, devising and implementing strategies for monitoring and scaling, to deliver industry leading reliability to our enterprise customers
- Leading, mentoring and coaching our lean and talented team of two backend engineers, in conjunction with our Principal Engineering function
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Sylvera is scaling carbon markets with software, by developing tools to quantify stocks of carbon stored in vegetation using AI applied to satellite or drone data.
Using current quantification techniques, it is not possible to provide accurate and regular data on the performance of forestry projects, which leads to issues with corruption, fraud and uncertainty. This leads to significant financial and reputational risk for corporates purchasing offsets and makes it hard for high quality forest projects to secure fair prices and low cost finance at large scale.
By providing a quantitative sequestration audit trail and associated risk ratings, Sylvera intends to underpin effective voluntary carbon markets. This will allow the market to scale to keep the planet under 2C of warming, and unlock huge co benefits for nature and society.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
279% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"Sylvera's mission to bring transparency to the Voluntary Carbon Market leveraging data and expertise is a privilege to be a part of -- being able to..."
Company benefits
- Unlimited Holiday
- Christmas Shut Down
- Private Medical & Life insurance
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Monthly Friday lunch budget
- Team social budgets
- One-off WFH allowance
- Enhanced Paid Sick Leave
- Mental Health support
Company values
- Own it - We believe in giving people the autonomy to own their impact
- Stay curious - Our business is built on revealing truths and debunking misperceptions
- Do What’s Right, Even When It’s Hard - The right path isn’t always easy or obvious
- Collaborate with Kindness - Great teams are built on open communication and respect
Company HQ
London, UK
Founders
Allister Furey
(CEO)Allister is a repeat entrepreneur with a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA from London Business School. As well as 10 years developing technology in the renewables industry, he has built and operated business units in Asia, Continental Europe and the UK
Samuel Gill
(President)Sam started his career in the City working for top U.S. law firms. He specialised in the formation and regulation of Investment Funds, working on a number of high-profile launches. More recently, he focused on ESG products, and has advised on major carbon offset issuances
People progressing
Felix joined us at a Carbon Markets & Commercial Strategy Intern. He's created incredible impact, and has since been promoted 3 times to Commercial Operations & Strategy Manager.
Jess joined us as a Senior GIS Engineer and has since seen 3 subsequent promotions. Jess is now our VP Ratings.
Diversity & Inclusion at Sylvera
Jen Burry (Head of Talent)
- We have launched a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee, to continue to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company while constantly learning with a humble attitude. We have team members focused across the following pillars to establish a baseline and track progress
- Recruitment: Attract great talent and increase the pool of diverse candidates at all levels
- Training: Develop a training library intended to build inclusive behaviours and DEI competency
- Lifecycle metrics: Use data and metrics to track progress across all DEI pillars
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Create and support employee resources groups to foster representation, inclusion, and belonging
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