Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, architecture, and execution of scalable APIs, services, and user interfaces that prioritize accessibility.

• Implement AI-native functionalities for carbon accounting, ESG data gathering, and sustainability planning across both front-end and back-end.

• Advance the platform towards modular, event-driven, and API-first components.

• Provide technical guidance and make engineering decisions concerning scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact.

• Ensure reliability and operational excellence, which includes telemetry, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident management, and ongoing service enhancement.

• Advocate for DevOps methodologies, encompassing CI/CD, automation of deployments, monitoring, and application-level operations.

• Work collaboratively with Platform Engineers in a lean DevOps shared service framework.

• Mentor fellow engineers and advocate for engineering best practices.

• Promote code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, and maintainability.

• Take ownership of the quality and production readiness of deliverables.

• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering, and other engineering teams on discovery, trade-offs, and delivery.

• Address customer challenges with refined, scalable engineering solutions.

• Identify technical risks, performance issues, and opportunities to enhance platform architecture and engineering methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in full stack software engineering, encompassing both front-end and back-end development.

• Strong familiarity with modern front-end technologies, specifically React or similar frameworks.

• In-depth back-end engineering expertise, ideally with GoLang or comparable general-purpose programming languages.

• Experience in designing and developing scalable APIs, services, and cloud-native applications.

• Comprehensive understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, automation, and incident management.

• Proven track record of delivering secure, observable, and high-quality production software.

• Strong emphasis on code quality, automated testing, documentation, performance, and maintainability.

• Capability to lead technical design discussions and influence architectural choices.

• Effective collaboration and communication skills across Product, Design, Platform, and Engineering teams.

• Ownership mindset, taking responsibility for outcomes from design through to production.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or microservices.

• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL.

• Background in working within cross-functional product teams.

• Experience in mentoring engineers or contributing to engineering standards.

• Experience with AI-enabled, data-intensive, sustainability, carbon intelligence, ESG reporting, or enterprise SaaS products.

• Understanding of sustainability frameworks and standards, including GHG Protocol, CSRD, or SBTi.

• Familiarity with observability, reliability engineering, SLOs, error budgets, and production incident management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for remote work.

• Flexible and hybrid work arrangements.

• Inclusive workplace culture.

• Opportunity to engage in a global and diverse environment.

• Commitment to sustainability and making a positive impact in the real world.

• Adoption of AI to enhance creativity and productivity.