Climate change is one of the biggest problems humanity is facing today. We are an early-stage start-up working on simple, delightful solutions that make a real difference in one of the worst contributing industries: waste.
Why is there so much garbage and why is the status quo for it to end up in the landfill or ocean? What if waste could be prevented by first being turned into something useful and delightful?
Chewie Labs is a soon-to-be launched climate tech start-up focused on eliminating waste, which results in ~5% of global carbon emissions and daily+ pain points in the home.
Chewie’s culture is rooted in science, creativity, and taking itself less seriously than the problem. It is a new type of company where sustainability isn’t just the side dish–it’s the main meal.
Role Description:
As one of the first members of the team, you will have greenfield opportunities to design and build technology supporting our first product and service offering from scratch. You will also support internal tooling and automation needs to scale the company’s velocity. An ideal candidate will bring a broad set of technical and problem solving skills and relish opportunities to learn and solve novel problems.
You will have the opportunity to work on every stage of product development, from initial design to implementation to scaling. This role also requires defining clear specifications and managing execution of external contractors to augment the team’s execution.
As a founding member of the team, you will help build out best practices and procedures and influence our growing company’s culture and team. An ideal candidate loves proactively seeking out problems and devising creative solutions, regardless of technology. We also hope you are as excited about working on sustainability as we are!
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with product managers and other engineers to design, implement, launch, and operate infrastructure necessary to support our first product and service offering
- Effectively work in a fast-paced start-up environment with ambiguous product direction and distill into project requirements and technical designs, supporting experiments and incorporating learnings into future iterations
- Prototype, design and implement end-to-end applications.
- Proactively identify needs for internal automation, tools, and infrastructure and deliver user friendly, reliable solutions
- Design for scalability, performance, and robustness
- Engage effectively with third party firms by delivering clear specifications and requirements and managing execution
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science or related field
- At least 3 years experience in software development
- Expertise in an high-level programming language, like JavaScript or Python
- Expertise with at least one modern web application framework, such as Django or React.
- Ability to work with data schema, data modeling, and data visualization.
- Strong cross functional and technical collaboration skills
- Comfortable communicating technical design choices
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with AWS suite of cloud services
- Experience shipping consumer facing products and scaling while maintaining quality
- Experience working with real time streaming data systems and data warehouses
- Security and privacy experience, especially working with customer data
- Experience working with IOT devices
- Nice to have - knowledge of Elixir and the Phoenix Elixir framework
- Broad set of skills with experience jumping into new problems and learning quickly!
The estimated base salary range for this position is $130k to $175k, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs. At Chewie, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role.
For your awareness, we have been requiring that all employees and visitors who come into our offices verify that they are fully vaccinated with respect to COVID-19. Of course we are open to discussing accommodations where legally required, such as for medical or religious reasons. If you need to discuss accommodations or better understand this requirement, please let me know. Otherwise, please prepare to provide verification of your vaccination.
