Backend Software Engineer

At Lune, we are looking for an ambitious backend engineer to help us build the stack for carbon offsetting and emissions calculations. We are on the mission to make every product and service climate positive by default. We are starting by offering the API for emissions calculations and carbon removal offsetting.

We are a remote-first team with an office in central London. We have raised $4m in seed funding from Crane and leading angel investors, such as the founder of N26, founder of Voi, founder of OysterHR. If you’re a talented engineer who cares about tackling the climate crisis, we’d love to work with you!

🌱 This role is a unique opportunity to be a core part of Lune’s core team, to have a real impact on our mission and to define and scale the company into the future.

🌎 As we grow, you’ll have the opportunity to take on new responsibilities and help build a great company while tackling the greatest challenge of our time.

Tech stack

Our tech stack currently consists of typescript, reactjs and postgresql. Applications are hosted on AWS EKS (Kubernetes). All infrastructure is provisioned with terraform.

All code is rigorously tested automatically and deployed multiple times a day to production.

What you’ll do

• Hands-on development in typescript
• Ensure our API scales hand in hand with our customer growth
• Write robust, maintainable, testable code in a timely manner
• Participate in architecture discussions to ensure our tech stack is consistent with our product roadmap
• Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebase and processes
• Provide mentorship to colleagues
• Help us grow the team!

You will fit this role if you

• Enjoy making decisions that will make an impact
• Want to work on climate impacting projects
• Thrive in a fast paced, early stage startup environment

Desirable skills and experience

• Hiring for all levels, but as a minimum 2+ years experience building backend applications
• Strong problem solving skills
• Computer science/engineering qualifications
• Typescript experience is preferred but not required!

What we offer

• Equity, as one of the core team members
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Family planning and fertility benefits
• 25 days of holiday
• Quarterly full team get together and offsite
• Flexible working: office in central London, come in when you please, work from anywhere if you like