Lead Software Engineer - Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessibility-first user interfaces
• Deliver AI-native features across both front-end and back-end, spanning carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning capabilities
• Drive the evolution of the platform into modular, event-driven, API-first components
• Provide technical direction and make sound engineering trade-offs around scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact
• Own reliability and operational excellence, including telemetry, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous service improvement
• Champion DevOps practices, including CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and application-level operations
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers as part of a lean DevOps shared service model, while taking responsibility for application-level DevOps within the team
• Mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and help raise the technical bar across the team
• Champion code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, and maintainability
• Take full ownership of the quality of deliverables, including test automation, continuous improvement, and production readiness
• Partner closely with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering, and other engineering teams on product discovery, technical trade-offs, and delivery
• Bring a product- and customer-led mindset to solving customer pain points with elegant, scalable engineering solutions
• Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve the platform architecture and engineering ways of working

Qualifications

Qualifications

Essential

• Strong experience in full stack software engineering, with proven capability across both front-end and back-end development
• Solid experience with modern front-end technologies, particularly React or similar frameworks
• Strong back-end engineering experience, ideally including GoLang or comparable general-purpose programming languages
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs, services, and cloud-native applications
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, automation, and incident response
• Experience delivering secure, observable, high-quality production software
• Strong focus on code quality, automated testing, documentation, performance, and maintainability
• Ability to lead technical design discussions and influence architectural decisions
• Effective collaboration and communication skills across Product, Design, Platform, and Engineering teams
• Ownership mindset, with accountability for outcomes from design through to production

Desirable

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience with event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or microservices
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience working in cross-functional product teams
• Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to engineering standards
• Experience with AI-enabled, data-intensive, sustainability, carbon intelligence, ESG reporting, or enterprise SaaS products
• Familiarity with sustainability frameworks and standards (e.g., GHG Protocol, CSRD, SBTi)
• Familiarity with observability, reliability engineering, SLOs, error budgets, and production incident management

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a senior engineer who combines strong hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You should be comfortable building across the stack, making architectural decisions, improving engineering practices, and influencing how products are designed, delivered, and operated.

You will be successful in this role if you enjoy solving complex customer problems, building scalable cloud-native systems, collaborating across disciplines, and helping teams deliver high-quality software that has real-world impact on industrial decarbonization.

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.