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Lead Software Architect

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Role:  Lead Software Architect

Location: Hybrid, Cambridge 2 days per week (ideally, maybe more flexibility)

Salary: Up to £75K + 12% pension, life insurance and more.

Are you someone who loves our planet and wants to do good in a role with a biodiversity-focused global organisation?

Would you like to do more with your technical skills? Are you somebody who’s dreamed of working to support and connect people and systems for the benefit of species conservation? Read on.

Thankfully, as you read this there are organisations already working on deeply detailed and technical systems aimed at recovering and regenerating ecosystems. These are essential in promoting collaboration and preventing biodiversity loss or limiting loss in scenarios where it is unavoidable. These systems range from databases on endangered species and key biodiversity areas to things like tracking pollution, monitoring species and the recovery of regions or sites. They are integrated into companies, governments and organisations all over the world and help all to understand how ecosystems interact and influence one another and how we, as humans, can protect them.

A passion for nature or the environment more broadly will serve you well here, as a conservation org. they are hyper-focused on impact and making their work accessible, integrating partners and customers into their platform to expand who is making use of this data for decision-making.

The CIO here has real ambitions to see the tech evolve across this 2,000+ people org with ~10 regional offices and teams spread more broadly than that across biodiversity hotspots (physical & political). That includes hardware, software, data science, and the whole shebang.

So, what will you be doing specifically?

Designing, building and maintaining the tech foundation that underpins a key database and platform. This will include investigating issues and implementing fixes to build in resilience and remove points of failure. You’ll also bring documentation up to standard; much was completed by consultants and wasn’t always updated by internal members of the team so there is some work to do in enabling the evolution of this platform and this may include switching to Python and Django or other technologies in the longer-term – 2+ years.

The skills priorities are Ruby on Rails and exp building APIs, exp with geospatial data and GIS tools is highly desirable. The role will be 70:30 Backend : Leadership, with some infrastructure and security tasks in there.

There are a number of partners who collaborate on various other interlinked tools, so cross-team collaboration experience will be beneficial. If you’ve touched on security or some DevOps tools and cloud technologies, but not extensively, there is support to grow your knowledge in the form of partners/teammates and funding for courses, textbooks or other materials if needed.

Experience Required:

  • Ruby on Rails – Backend focused
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • DevOps – AWS
  • Leadership Experience

It’s a small team of 5, including the systems manager, that is part of a broader conservation tech ecosystem of 5 to 6 other teams and systems that occasionally collaborate or share resources, including with some of those partner orgs.

You’ll be involved with the design, review code and work closely with, scientists, ecologists, and climate researchers, prioritise work and engage some stakeholders or 3rd parties, as some internal teams such as GIS and data analysts and program managers to support them in delivering projects across various tiers of the conservation sector.

Interested in addressing biodiversity loss and turning things around? Do say hello 😊.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

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Staff Engineer  – Climate Tech

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Role:  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.

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Software Delivery Manager – Sustainability

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Software Delivery Manager – Sustainability

Location: Fully remote within occasional trips to Scotland.

Salary: Circa €70K + bonus + share scheme + private health.

Fun fact for the day: Global shipping contributes 3% of the world’s carbon emissions.  That’s the same as the *whole* of Europe’s largest economy, Germany.  It’s an industry that relies heavily on the cheapest and dirtiest fossil fuel: crude oil.  And use is predicted to rise, fast, unless someone does something about it.

Like so many things, there are obvious solutions staring us in the face, but it takes a brave and bold few to embrace the challenge and attempt to turn the tide.

This company is a purpose-driven endeavour. Honestly they’re looking to change the world. For the past 10 years they’ve been working day and night to develop their (quite frankly astonishing) products and services, and they’re on the cusp of something special.

However, to take that next jump, they need an accomplished software delivery professional to join them and help drive their suite of digital products and services, to complement their engineering-based solutions.

You’d work with the teams of third parties who up until now have developed their software, leading analysis and engagement, and driving delivery.  You’ll be regarded as the company chief digital authority, developing strategy and providing insights to the leadership team and high-profile customers.

Your projects will vary, from IoT/hardware control systems through to data-science and SaaS platforms.

You won’t be doing any programming or directly managing engineers (at least for the medium term) but you will have worked in heavily technical environments where you have been responsible for making sure key software projects are specced, resourced and delivered effectively (and to budget).

It’s going to be a multi-faceted role drawing on your technical, project delivery, stakeholder management, commercial and strategic skills, and given the company is still relatively small you will need to love being in the thick of the action and rolling your sleeves up to support the company mission as is required.

You’ll have worked previously a Software Engineering Manager, Delivery Manager or Specialist Software Project Manager, ideally with a technical background that includes some SaaS and/or Data Science experience.

Any previous experience within the shipping industry would be great, along with some previous start-up/scale-up exposure.

You will likely be a passionate supporter of the sustainability movement or at least have a genuine interest in working for a purpose-driven company.

The team are friendly and passionate, and the company are supportive with great benefits including a share scheme and possible bonus, so you’ll bought into any future success.

Longer term, the company are expecting to make several hires in 12-18 months, so there will be an opportunity to help shape this growth and potentially grow a small in-house team.

Although the role is remote, the company would strongly prefer to hire someone who lives in Scotland as they are likely to be opening up a Scotland office soon and quarterly meetings will be help there.

So, do you want to use your skills to help make a significant dent in the climate crisis? Well, what are you waiting for?

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

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Ruby on Rails Engineer

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Role:  Ruby on Rails Engineer

Location: Hybrid, Cambridge 2 days per week (ideally, maybe more flexibility)

Salary: £50K – £60K + 12% pension, life insurance and more.

 Are you someone who loves our planet and wants to do good in a role with a biodiversity-focused global organisation?

Would you like to do more with your technical skills? Are you somebody who’s dreamed of working to support and connect people and systems for the benefit of species conservation? Read on.

Thankfully, as you read this there are organisations already working on deeply detailed and technical systems aimed at recovering and regenerating ecosystems. These are essential in promoting collaboration and preventing biodiversity loss or limiting loss in scenarios where it is unavoidable.

These systems range from databases on endangered species and key biodiversity areas to things like tracking pollution, monitoring species and the recovery of regions or sites. They are integrated into companies, governments and organisations all over the world and help all to understand how ecosystems interact and influence one another and how we, as humans, can protect them.

A passion for nature or the environment more broadly will serve you well here, as a conservation org. they are hyper-focused on impact and making their work accessible, integrating partners and customers into their platform to expand who is making use of this data for decision-making.

The CIO here has real ambitions to see the tech evolve across this 2,000+ people org with ~10 regional offices and teams spread more broadly than that across biodiversity hotspots (physical & political). That includes hardware, software, data science, and the whole shebang.

So, what will you be doing specifically?

Building and maintaining the tech foundation that underpins a key database and platform. This will include investigating issues and implementing fixes to build in resilience and remove points of failure. You’ll also bring documentation up to standard; much was completed by consultants and wasn’t always updated by internal members of the team so there is some work to do in enabling the evolution of this platform and this may include switching to Python and Django or other technologies in the longer-term – 2+ years.

The skills priorities are Ruby on Rails and exp building APIs, exp with geospatial data and GIS tools is highly desirable. The role will be 80:20 backend : frontend, with some infrastructure and security tasks in there.

There are a number of partners who collaborate on various other interlinked tools, so cross-team collaboration experience will be beneficial. If you’ve touched on security or some DevOps tools and cloud technologies, but not extensively, there is support to grow your knowledge – in the form of partners/teammates and funding for courses, textbooks or other materials if needed.

It’s a small team of ~5, including the systems manager, that is part of a broader conservation tech ecosystem of 5-6 other teams and systems that occasionally collaborate or share resources, including with some of those partner orgs.

You’ll be involved with the design, review code and work closely with, scientists, ecologists, and climate researchers, prioritise work and engage some stakeholders or 3rd parties, also some internal teams such as GIS and data analysts and program managers to support them in delivering projects across various tiers of the conservation sector.

Interested in addressing biodiversity loss and turning things around? Do say hello 😊.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

GREENTECH Software Engineer

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Role: GREENTECH Software Engineer – TypeScript, Node, React

Location: Office in Cambridge

Salary: Up to £44K plus benefits

Are you looking for a way to use your software development skills to benefit the planet?

How would you feel about telling your friends and family that what you do helps countries and their governments to implement green policies that truly help the planet with things like protecting endangered animals and clean water?

If that sounds like something you would care deeply about, read on- this one’s for you.

You are a full-stack TypeScript developer who is great with Node, React, and Azure. Around 95% of the codebase you will be working with is written in TypeScript.

You have at least a couple of years of experience in a commercial setting and are ready to take what you’ve learned and apply it to something that really matters. Something you believe in. something that will help the planet for decades to come.

In this role, you’ll be working for a UK-based charity, in a very friendly and diverse team of around 30 people, including several senior devs for you to learn from. They have people from all over the world, including Ireland, Spain, France, Cameroon, Italy, etc. This isn’t your normal development setup, you’ll be working alongside biologists and other domain-specific people, in addition to the usual mix of project managers, devs, QA, etc.

You’ll need to be in the Cambridge office twice per month, on the last Tuesday and Wednesday of every month. If you’d like to go in more often than that, you’re welcome to!

The interview process for this role is:

·       1st stage panel interview with 3 people from your prospective team

·       Tech test (1 week to complete)

·       Final stage interview to discuss the test results

If this sounds right up your street, apply now, or drop me a line to find out more!

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect regardless of background.

Conservation Business Development Lead

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Role: Business Development Lead – Nature & Conservation 

Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid

Salary: £46k-£58k

It’s not often that you go home with a warm fuzzy feeling that you’ve done good in the world, especially when you work at the sharp end of sales and business development. Instead, you build relationships and sell products or services that don’t resonate with you but make huge profits for shareholders.

Not exactly what your mum had in mind when she told you that you would change the world…right?

Well, here’s a chance to not only put a smile on your mum’s face but to make a huge difference to our planet and the countless plants and animals that are often put in harm’s way whenever human beings look to ‘develop’ our environment and potentially devastate fragile ecosystems.

This organisation exists to protect vulnerable species from the impact of human development. They do so through developing cutting-edge technology that allows private sector businesses to measure the impact of their development activity on ecosystems, and demand for their services is rapidly increasing as (thankfully) more and more private sector businesses take their obligation toward the environment and conversation seriously.

This role is a new position created to assist the organisational growth as they look to engage and win contracts with more private sector businesses worldwide.

A team will assist you as you identify, engage and convert leads and raise the organisation’s core product profile through effective sales, marketing and communications activities.

However, this isn’t a cut-throat, KPI-driven sales role. It is a broad, qualitative-focused business development role. You will add value in various ways, from reviewing their current CRM tooling and strategy to attending conferences and events to raise the organisation’s profile generally.

You will follow up on leads, prospect for new opportunities and undertake presentations and pitches to businesses across the renewables, mining, finance/banking and ‘soft’ commodities (food, fashion etc.) industries.

You will have a proven track record in a sales and business development role and a demonstrable passion for sustainability and conservation – this is vital.

You may have worked for another not-for-profit organisation in a community engagement or business development role or will come from a commercial background selling enterprise software or similar complex, solutions.

You comprehend purchasing processes within larger businesses and will have exceptional written and spoken English for delivering high-profile client presentations.

As this is working for a not-for-profit organisation there will be no bonuses, but you can expect a salary between £46k-£58k and generous benefits including a 12% pension scheme, life assurance and 25 days holiday.

The role will be largely remote-based, but you will be expected to spend at least 3 days a month (consecutively) working from Cambridge.

If you are interested, please apply, ideally writing a short cover note explaining why you are interested in working within conservation!

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect regardless of background.

Lead .NET Software Engineer

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Role:  Lead .NET Software Engineer

Location:  Office in Warwickshire, which you’ll need to go into once per week for the first 3 months. After that, can be up to fully remote. 

Salary:  Up to £70k plus benefits. 

Do you want to help to make the world a better place to live in?    Would you like to do this through using your impressive tech skills for a great cause?

Then look no further!

You’re a superb C# .Net Developer with bags of experience engineering solutions of the highest calibre. Whether you’re maintaining an existing piece of software, or modernising it, you’re there for it and you love it.

I’m working with a Greentech company who are on a mission to use data to reduce the environmental impact of their customers, I have been looking for you.

You’ll probably be more comfortable on the back end, using tech like C#, .Net 4.7 up to .net 7/8, SQL and SQL Server, Entity Framework, maybe some IIS, SSIS, and perhaps Telerik Kendo. This is what they use, in addition to some Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

In this role, you’ll be managing a small team of 1 in-house developer and 4-5 offshore engineers, so experience in team management and developing people is a must in this role.

You’ll be hands-on with code and architecture, doing code reviews, and 1-2-1s, so will be kept very busy!

If this sounds right up your alley, get in touch today to find out more or hit apply now for your next role!

ConservationTech Mid-level DevOps Engineer

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ConservationTech Mid-level DevOps Engineer

Location: Hybrid, 2 days in Cambridge per month (potential for fully remote)

Salary: £40K – £44K +12% pension and benefits.

Biodiversity is a buzzword right now.

The tide is turning in terms of policy, public attention, and commitment but most importantly, in terms of funding. The 30 by 30 target and commitments from BioCOP15 are leading to real growth in our capability to protect, repair and enhance nature.

This role will sit within a team of ~30 techies, UIUX designers, product and project managers, developers, architects and more who are delivering tools and technologies for the future of nature conservation.

Building roads, mines, railways, and other infrastructure will always impact biodiversity and for the most part, the UK has high standards here.

That’s not the case for every country in the world.

Governments are scrambling to understand how valuable nature is and how their infrastructure and economic plans impact our planet. Questioning whether a forest is more commercially or socially valuable than an oil rig or palm oil plantation? How do you even track that?

Cue this organisation, the only one of their kind in the world. They build tools and offer services and support to conservation partners, companies, and governments around the world to better plan for enhancing and protecting nature.

Tech-wise, there’s lots to play with; GIS technologies and tools are used across their portfolio. Primarily integrated into web apps built with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and Python, along with lots of SQL, PostgreSQL, GraphQL and more as they manage critical databases to leverage insights to support all kinds of conservation projects.

You’ll be managing and supporting their web services and tools, monitoring infrastructure using things like Nagios or ELK stack, and managing databases using PostgreSQL in particular. Any experience automating and using Terraform, Ansible or similar tools and deploying software, using CICD pipelines is great and experience in testing and TDD is always beneficial!

They’re not fussy about what cloud you’ve worked with but lots of their partners benefit from Microsoft Azure thanks to the discounts MS give to charities in this space.

The work you do here will accelerate the positive impacts and solutions available to wider organisations benefiting our environment. A lot of these benefits are tangible economic and social wins that in the longer term will reduce our dependency on problematic resources such as fossil fuels.

So, if you’re serious about saving our planet and turning the tide against the fight to fix our climate crisis, this is definitely a role you should apply for.

Visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate with a strong alignment using their tech stack.

What are you waiting for?

ClimateTech Software Engineering Manager – Earth Observation

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ClimateTech Software Engineering Manager – Earth Observation
Location: Fully remote within Europe, +/- 2 hours of CET.
Salary: €75K – €100K + equity & benefits.

Forest management is tough. Cut too much and we release carbon, too little and the risk of wildfire or damage to infrastructure can be devastating.

Vegetation monitoring may not sound very exciting but building earth observation software, utilising satellite imagery and Machine Learning with remote sensing and geospatial presents interesting challenges.

These systems are used to efficiently manage resources and team activities, saving time and money.

Most importantly though, this saves homes, businesses and services from blackouts caused by seasonal and extreme weather events. It’s a game changer in energy and climate resilience.

The company have grown rapidly since the end of 2021. There are ~70 people now, with around 45 in development and data science across 5 teams with one core product, each being quite specialised.

You’ll lead a team of 6-8 cross-disciplined people, building out new features and implementing deeply interesting product developments. Your key focus will be optimising the team, removing bottlenecks, and supporting them individually, managing resources and planning workloads in line with changing priorities.

Data processing and pipelines are critical to the work, and it’s essential you’ve worked with machine learning products in the past. Geospatial and remote sensing data experience and any knowledge of satellite and high-resolution imagery would also be very helpful.

Their tech stack is Python, Django, Typescript, Node and React, with Google Cloud Platform for managing their services. They use a lot of PyTorch and TensorFlow and various other data libraries or frameworks so you might be getting the hint that data exp is key experience.

They’re hoping to find someone who’s been an EM in numerous companies, having seen some different approaches to leadership, process design and implementation, onboarding, and a deep curiosity for understanding people. Empathy is critical and this all feeds into building a team who are passionate about having a positive impact and compassionate towards their peers.

They also want someone familiar with startup environments, ideally who’s been through series A-C fundraises and the growth that comes with bringing on paying customers and investment simultaneously.

The team are friendly and passionate, and the company are supportive with good benefits including equity, so you’re bought into any future success.

Want to help address the climate crisis? What are you waiting for? 😁

ClimateTech Senior Fullstack Engineer – Earth Observation

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ClimateTech Senior Fullstack Engineer – Earth Observation
Salary: €65,000 – €85,000 + equity
Location: Fully remote – Europe or UK based.

Forest management can be challenging. Cut too much and you’re causing unnecessary damage, too little and the risk of wildfire or damage to infrastructure can be devastating.

Vegetation monitoring may not sound very exciting but building earth observation software, utilising satellite imagery and Machine Learning with remote sensing and geospatial presents interesting challenges.

These systems are used to efficiently manage resources and team activities, saving time and money.

Most importantly though, this saves homes, businesses and services from blackouts caused by seasonal and extreme weather events. It’s a game changer in energy and climate resilience.

The company has grown rapidly since the end of 2021. There are 70 people now, with around 45 of those in development and data science across 5 teams with one core product, each team being quite specialised.

The company is hoping to find people with experience in earth observation or some familiarity with image processing and GIS/Geospatial technologies.

You’ll focus on building dashboards and web apps connecting various aerial imagery and satellite data to customers, enabling decision-making. You’ll work closely with product managers in an Agile environment. The company’s tech teams have grown heavily in the last 12 months and will continue to do so through the next 12+ months following the close of their Series A fundraiser.

They use Google Cloud Platform and Python alongside modern Typescript, ES6, ES7 and frameworks like React and NodeJS. Their products are very geospatial and remote sensing focused so experience with Python and GIS tools or geospatial data will be prioritised.

As with most dev roles these days you’ll do quite a lot of work with APIs, FASTAPI specifically, so browser API and backend API building is a must.

They’re keen to find someone with experience working in startups, ideally in the space sector, with imagery in some capacity, or with data pipelines and machine learning products.

Following that, a real passion for climate solutions is something they’ll need to see.

They care about their staff. They have a 13% vacation stipend to send you on some epic holidays contribute to your training and development and operate truly flexibly – so long as you’re available and overlap with the team (+/- 3-hour CET is best) you can work when you choose.

If this sounds like a bit of you, please reach out. They’re remote first and will consider people anywhere in Europe.

GreenTech Software Engineering Manager – Earth Observation

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Software Engineering Manager – Earth Observation

Location: Fully remote within Europe, +/- 2 hours of CET.

Salary: €75K – €90K + 13% vacation supplement + equity & benefits.

Forest management can be challenging. Cut too much and you’re causing unnecessary damage, too little and the risk of wildfire or damage to infrastructure can be devastating and costly.

Vegetation management may not sound all that exciting but building earth observation software to integrate satellite imagery with geospatial analysis and Machine Learning with data coming in from teams, remote sensors and other hardware on the ground presents interesting challenges!

These systems are used to efficiently manage resources and team activities, saving time and money.

Most importantly though, this saves homes, businesses and services from blackouts caused by seasonal and extreme weather events. It’s a game changer improving energy and climate resilience.

The company have grown rapidly since the end of 2021. There are ~60 people now, with around 45 of those in tech. 

You’ll lead a team of 6-8 cross-disciplined people, building out new features and implementing deeply interesting product developments. Your key focus will be optimising the team, removing bottlenecks and supporting them individually, managing resources and planning workloads in line with changing priorities.

Data processing and pipelines are critical to the work, and it’s essential you’ve worked with machine learning products in the past. Geospatial and remote sensing data experience would also be very helpful, or any knowledge of satellite imagery.

Their tech stack is Python, Django, Typescript, Node and React, with Google Cloud Platform for managing their services. They use a lot of PyTorch and TensorFlow and various other data libraries or frameworks so you might be getting the hint that data exp is key experience.

They really want someone familiar with startup environments, ideally who’s been through series A-C fundraises and the growth that comes with bringing on paying customers and investment simultaneously.

The team are friendly and passionate, and the company are supportive with good benefits including equity, so you’re bought into any future success.

Want to help address the climate crisis? What are you waiting for? 😁

Fullstack Developer – Javascript and Python

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Fullstack Developer – Javascript & Python
Salary: €60,000 – €75,000 + equity + remote setup, conference and training budgets.
Location: Fully remote – Europe or UK based.

Forest management can be challenging. Cut too much and you’re causing unnecessary damage, too little and the risk of wildfire or damage to infrastructure can be devastating and costly.

Vegetation management may not sound all that exciting but building earth observation software to integrate satellite imagery and Machine Learning with data coming in from team and remote sensors and other hardware on the ground presents interesting challenges!

These systems are used to efficiently manage resources and team activities, saving time and money.

Most importantly though, this saves homes, businesses and services from blackouts caused by seasonal and extreme weather events. It’s a game changer in energy and climate resilience.

The company have grown rapidly since the end of 2021. There are ~60 people now, with around 40 of those in development and data science across 5 teams with one core product, with each team being quite specialised.

You’ll focus on building dashboards and web apps connecting various aerial imagery and satellite data to customers to enable decision-making. You’ll work closely with product managers in an Agile environment. The company’s tech teams have grown heavily in the last 12 months and will continue to do so through the next 12+ months.

They use Google Cloud Platform and Python alongside modern Javascript, ES6, ES7, Typescript and frameworks like React. Their products tilt heavily towards geospatial and remote sensing data so if you have exp with GIS tools or geospatial data that will really stand out.

As with most dev roles these days you’ll do quite a lot of work with APIs, too, so browser API and backend API building is a must.

They’re keen to find someone with experience working in startups, ideally in the space sector, or, with imagery in some capacity, or with data pipelines and machine learning products.

Following that, a real passion for climate solutions is something they’ll need to see.

They care about their staff. They have a 13% vacation stipend to send you on some epic holidays and contribute to your training and development, and operate truly flexibly – so long as you’re available and overlap with the team (+/- 3-hour CET is best) you can work when you chose.

If this sounds like a bit of you please reach out. They’re remote first and will consider people anywhere in Europe. They can also provide visa sponsorship via a Netherlands government salary sacrifice scheme if you’d prefer to move to the Netherlands.

Conservation Tech Lead

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Conservation Tech Lead – Ruby on Rails & JavaScript

Location: Cambridge, hybrid – 2 days per month on-site

Salary: Up to £70K + 12% pension

Biodiversity is finally raising the agenda globally, following various agreements made at BioCOP15 in Canada in late 2022.

Monitoring and reporting financial disclosures and their impacts on nature will be compulsory for many large companies from early 2024, particularly those extracting resources, developing land or providing finance.

Working for a conservation partnership of 4 organisations this role will be working on a geospatial mapping tool which tracks biodiversity over land and oceans. The usership has doubled in the last 18 months with no signs of slowing. The platform is also used by conservation partners and governments to allow for more robust decision-making and policy creation.

You’ll work predominantly with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript to build new features, taking some ownership of design and architecture as you grow into the position and learn how your team work best. They use PostgreSQL and have lots of APIs which require maintenance.

Interestingly, you’ll have the best of several worlds in this role, being employed by a charity with a large broader tech team and a strong support network, events and workshops for upskilling and a wonderful culture, while being embedded in a specific product team.

You’ll manage around 4 people, though this will likely grow to ~7 in the next year. You’ll take ultimate responsibility for the platform, including touching on things like security, testing, documentation and coaching your team, though there are colleagues across the partnership who can support in areas outside of your skillset, e.g., security.

As the tool is geospatial / mapping focused, any experience using or building GIS tools will be hugely beneficial. Knowledge of conservation, rewilding, ecology, biodiversity, or any field within environmental science will also stand out, as will a demonstrable passion for tackling the climate crisis.

The team needs a leader with experience, someone who can manage resources, assess future priorities and requirements, identify gaps within the team skills matrix and maintain calm when deadlines are looming. This platform is the authoritative tool in the sector globally, and the aim is to maintain that prestige and impact.

So, if you’re serious about saving our planet and turning the tide against the fight to fix our climate crisis, this is a role you should apply for.

What are you waiting for?

Backend Python Developer

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Role:   Backend Python Developer

Salary:   Up to £44K

Location:  Cambridge, In the office twice a month

Are you passionate about conservation and the power of technology? If so, we’re on the lookout for a skilled Backend Python Developer to contribute towards building a sustainable future for the business world.

This role is being offered up by a global data centre that believe in harnessing the potential of technology to advance biodiversity research and conservation efforts. The Digital Transformation team is at the forefront of innovation, leveraging Azure’s cloud infrastructure to build robust data pipelines that enable the analysis and interpretation of complex biological data for big businesses around the world. This is the team that you’ll be joining!

As a Backend Python Developer within the digital infrastructure team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the data pipelines in Azure. Although the company isn’t primarily a Python house now, this role is a corridor for more Python projects, and they’re hoping to build out a team of Python developers soon!

You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of biologists, data scientists and software engineers to create solutions that push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Here’s some expected responsibilities for this role:

  • Design and implement scalable and efficient web APIs using Python in an Azure environment.
  • Deliver on web applications in time and within budget.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and ensure seamless integration of data pipelines and interfaces.
  • Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously enhance each products’ capabilities.

In terms of who I’m looking for, someone with these skills would be perfect:

  • Strong proficiency in Backend Python development (2-3+ years)
  • Experience with Azure services, particularly in building and deploying data pipelines (if you’ve used AWS and have knowledge of Azure, that’s cool too)
  • Ideally some knowledge of data modelling, ETL processes, and database management, although this isn’t a dealbreaker.
  • Familiarity with biodiversity data or a keen interest in the field is a plus.
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Willing to travel into the office twice a month.

The office is based in Cambridge, and they’re looking for someone to come into the office twice a month for team events and get togethers. They’re looking to pay up to £44K for this role, so ideally someone mid-level with some experience to their belt would be great!

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