Full Stack Developer (JavaScript/Python)

Cervest is building the world’s first open access AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform.

We’re a certified B-Corp with a vision to democratize access to Climate Intelligence driving a shared responsibility to protect the world’s critical assets — including our greatest shared asset, the planet.

It’s an exciting time to join us. We’ve just raised $30m in Series A investment. Our inaugural product, EarthScanTM, will launch in 2021. EarthScanTM enables organizations to de-risk business decisions, meet financial disclosure guidelines, improve resilience, and uncover new opportunities to accelerate low-carbon growth.

We’re backed by leading venture capital firms, including Draper Esprit, Future Positive, Lowercarbon Capital, and Astanor Ventures. We are now building up our team in all areas: sales, marketing, science, engineering, and people operations.

As a company, we are a pro-diversity, highly inclusive organization, committed to bringing together people of all backgrounds and enabling them to succeed. We know that a richly diverse team will help us achieve our mission sooner.

We're building a team to implement climate data visualisations and are looking for a software engineering generalist with experience of building UIs and delivering data to them. As part of this team you'll be exercising a cutting-edge skill set with chances to learn across the stack (e.g. data stores, pipelines and architectures; geospatial data and interactive visualisations). The role offers a unique opportunity to join an exciting, early-stage, highly mission-driven team where you’ll have the ability to make a significant impact on our company and our users.

Main responsibilities

• Build compelling and high-performance climate data visualisations, using libraries such as d3 and visx as well as geospatial data
• Develop performant services allowing our customers to access our climate signals
• Identify unified data models by collaborating with scientists and product designers in a cross-functional team
• Manage and deliver stateful data into the client application
• Ensure software quality across our products including documentation, testing, monitoring and observability
• Work with senior leaders throughout Cervest to make sure that what we are building is best in class for what we are trying to achieve today as well as 12 months from now
• Deploying services on our Kubernetes clusters

Requirements

• Experience with Python
• Experience with Javascript and React (or Vue.js / similar)
• Experience with HTTP Python frameworks (e.g, FastAPI, Flask)
• Experience with a of data stores (e.g. Elastic, Postgres, Cassandra)
• Experience designing schemas and APIs
• Experience automating quality checks - eg tests, static checks, monitoring metrics and alarms

Benefits

Opportunities to learn, grow and thrive with support from talented and empathetic team mates.

We are a remote first company and looking for candidates who would be able to come to our office in London (once travel is sensible) a few times a year using more sustainable transport methods (we’ll help with that) so generally within one time zone of the UK.

Fuller list of benefits on our main career page – we’re an early-stage startup and currently reviewing our benefits in light of becoming a remote-first company. We are committed to ensuring that we support our team in developing in line with their aspirations and talents as well as continuing to develop our culture in line with our values.

• £50k-£75k
• 22 days’ holiday a year (plus 8 UK public holidays or local equivalent)
• The company closes between Christmas and New Year which gives an extra 3-4 days off each year (on top of your 22 days entitlement)
• Remote first company culture
• Flexibility in working times
• £1000 each year to expand your development
• Extensive home office budget
• Paid sick leave for physical and mental health with access to Spill
• Opportunities to learn, grow and thrive with support from talented and empathetic team mates
• We are committed to ensuring that we support our team in developing in line with their aspirations and talents as well as continuing to develop our culture in line with our values.