**Join us on the journey to get to net zero** At Carbon Direct, we dedicate
our scientific, software, and business expertise to empower organizations
around the world to take climate action. **Our Mission** Enable organizations
to reduce, remove, and utilize their emissions with carbon scienceWe are a
purpose-driven carbon management firm dedicated to helping organizations
around the world reach their climate goals. We make carbon science accessible
and actionable with our end-to-end platform. **Global citizens with global
impact** Whether a scientist, developer, or carbon markets expert, we are
united by our mission to take climate action now. We are experts in our fields
and we act with confidence. Located across 4 countries and 10+ states in the
U.S., we offer both remote-friendly work options and dynamic, in-person
experiences with offices located in Seattle, WA and Oakland, CA. **Diverse
backgrounds bring diverse perspectives** We recognize that teams with diverse
backgrounds and different experiences are powerful. Bringing together a
variety of perspectives only enhances how we can effectively address the
climate crisis. Together, we are creating an environment where everyone is
celebrated and anyone can succeed.
**Overview**
As a key member of our engineering team, you will build new products and
deliver innovative carbon management solutions. You will put the user first,
prioritize business impact, and uphold engineering excellence. You will
actively contribute to strategy, architecture, and roadmap discussions,
leveraging your technical expertise and commercial awareness. You will
participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC),
including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. You
should be capable and confident in contributing to full-stack engineering
initiatives.
You thrive in a dynamic environment, quickly onboarding into new problem sets
and domains. With a strong product engineering mindset, you focus on solving
real user problems and delivering value to maximize climate impact. While
working directly with stakeholders and scientific experts, you make informed
tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and technical complexity to deliver
impactful solutions. You effectively communicate these tradeoffs to non-
technical stakeholders. Finally, your passion for delivering world-class
carbon management software will be essential.
### **Responsibilities**
* Rapidly develop high-quality frontend features that support user needs
* Design well-structured backend data models and APIs that allow for long-term adaptability and scalability
* Drive features from conception to implementation to delivery and post-release support
* Support system maintenance, including relevant on-call rotations and incident response
* Develop tests and assessment metrics to maintain overall quality of deliverables
* Work closely with a diverse team across engineering, product, science, and marketing to build impactful solutions
* Drive pragmatic, impact-driven choices that balance business outcomes, product value, design goals, and engineering excellence
* Advocate for the end-user, ensuring products solve real problems and deliver tangible value
* Maintain an inclusive culture where shared successes are valued over personal wins.
### **Qualifications**
* Experience in Application Development and/or Platform Engineering
* JavaScript familiarity is a must, Node and React experience is a strong plus
* Experience building web applications with modern UI frameworks (Next and Material UI)
* Ability to work directly with stakeholders and scientific experts to translate complex needs into technical requirements
* Experience building products from scratch and solving real user problems
* Self-starter with a track record of building and shipping impactful features independently
* Comfortable working in fast-paced, outcome-oriented environments
* Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in distributed teams
* Interest in AI-driven innovation and ability to leverage AI coding tools
* Passion for addressing climate change
### **Nice to Have**
* Demonstrated ability to independently execute projects while incorporating guidance as needed
* Experience building AI-powered features and/or working with Python or LangChain or similar agentic frameworks.
* Background in climate technology or decarbonization solutions
* Experience with application security, authorization levels, and authentication
* Experience working with cloud infrastructure providers and CI/CD
**Salary Range**
$143,000-$175,000 a year
**Benefits** While we love our work, our lives aren’t defined by it. At Carbon
Direct, we offer a robust benefits package that considers the whole person,
their partners, and their families – and we’re always looking to improve.
**Our U.S. benefits* include:**
* Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage. [See a preview of our coverage here](https://app.rippling.com/benefits/preview/v4awgaedwor7yqpb).
* Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's
* 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
* Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
* Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup and monthly work-from-home stipend **Please note that the benefits described apply to[U.S.-based](http://u.s.-based/) employees only. For our international employees, our benefits package varies by each country and its statutory requirements.* **Equal Opportunity Employer**Carbon Direct is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. We adhere rigorously to our equal employment opportunity policies in connection with all employment decisions, including hiring, compensation and promotion.