Engineering Manager, Sylvera
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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
- We’re looking for a mission-driven engineering leader to inspire engineers to create value for customers through great engineering practices
- Has an understanding across frontend, backend and data engineering with deeper knowledge on one or two areas
- Has experience leading a small team or is a senior engineer looking to make a step up to managing a team whilst remaining hands on
- Knows how to balance delivering quickly whilst keeping the engineering quality high
- Loves to mentor engineers and build a team culture where everyone feels able to constructively challenge and learn from others
- Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earth
- Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience
- We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in
What the job involves
- You’ll be joining our Ratings Tech department where our mission is to drive the seamless and rapid delivery of high-quality Ratings data through innovative technology solutions. You’ll be in the Ratings App Team, transforming Ratings data into actionable insights for customers through intuitive applications
- Managing a team of engineers and inspiring others to work towards the team’s mission of transforming ratings data into actionable insights for customers
- Architecting across the product pipeline from how to ingest data from APIs and web scraping all the way to how to show this data through our own external facing API and web applications
- Remaining hands on implementing solutions within your area of expertise
- Attending customer conversations to understand how best to engineer solutions that create the most impact
- Working closely with our product manager to create the roadmap for the team, ensuring a good balance between delivering value to our customers and maintaining and improving engineering quality
- Building a culture within your team to foster engineering innovation, learning and growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
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.
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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
Leadership
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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