Lead Backend Engineer, Sylvera
CMS
+ 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
- This position is ideal for someone who’s looking to make a large impact and empower engineers to make sure we can scale our Ratings product and technology
- Wants to work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and balance this with engineering best practices
- Loves to learn and bring that knowledge to other team members, through mentorship or leadership
- Has demonstrable experience in building backend systems, is excited about improving systems and creating great developer and user experiences
- Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earthIs a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience
Desirable
- Our tech stack is as follows (not necessary for you to have experience in all of these, but experience in a few is highly useful. Note that we want to improve this and your role will be helping to create the path forward here):
- WordPress & ACF
- WordPress plugin development using modern techniques (PHP8+)
- Retool
- JavaScript (vanilla JS & jQuery)
- Docker
- Snowflake via PDO
- MySQL
- AWS
- Terraform
What the job involves
- Working with internal teams, you will be building systems to help automate how we create ratings of carbon offset projects
- Your work will be focused on our WordPress CMS & Retool systems
- We’re in the process of improving our current CMS technologies and are looking for someone who can help continue the vision of improving both user experience and developer experience
- Understanding & improving our current WordPress instances and executing our vision for the future of our CMS systems
- Leading other engineers to help them understand issues and pain points for customers and engineers and how to best address them going forward
- Mentoring more junior team members and implementing best practices
- Working closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and how best to build solutions accordingly
- Building underlying infrastructure to ensure all data created goes into our data platform so that it can be shown to customers within our app
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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Insights
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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
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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