Full-Time
Software Engineer – Senior / Staff +
Posted on 10/31/2025
Patch
51-200 employees
Platform for managing, trading carbon credits
Compensation Overview
$180k - $230k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
 Software Engineering (1) |
|---|
- Track record building customer-facing, data-and-transaction-heavy products (startup speed or small, high-ownership teams)
- Fluency in at least one backend language (Ruby + TypeScript) plus cloud-native data stacks (Postgres, Kafka/PubSub, Snowflake, dbt) and payment/settlement systems
- Daily driver of AI tools (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code) and hunger to push the frontier of AI-assisted engineering
- Product sense: you enjoy stitching user journeys as much as optimizing a query plan
- Bias toward impact, humility, and teaching—you lift the whole team by sharing context relentlessly
- Own the climate-commerce core – architect systems that ingest price & inventory data and settle high-value payouts across currencies and rails
- Prototype & harden – know when to sprint with a quick POC and when to engineer for fault-tolerant, audited scale
- Lead with context – mentor peers, review designs, and raise the bar while staying hands-on
- Partner across the org – white-board with Product, Climate Science, and GTM to turn market pain points into elegant product experiences
Patch operates a carbon credit marketplace that accelerates climate solutions by managing, selling, and buying carbon credits. The platform connects buyers seeking offsets with suppliers of carbon credits, providing a network of high-integrity credits and tools designed for both sides of the market. Transactions are driven by transparency, efficiency, and a modern buyer experience, with Patch actively managing 400 million tonnes of carbon to showcase its scale and impact. Compared with competitors, Patch emphasizes a trusted, audited credit network and streamlined workflow that reduces friction in sourcing, trading, and retiring credits. The company’s goal is to accelerate climate action by making carbon credit transactions clearer, more reliable, and easier to access for organizations and suppliers alike.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$81.5M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Voluntary carbon market projected to reach $100B by 2050 with infrastructure positioning.
- Patch Offtake product locks multi-year commitments, reducing financing barriers for carbon removal.
- Enterprise standardization across 100+ clients including Credit Suisse and Workday creates network effects.
What critics are saying
- EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism blocks US avoidance-heavy portfolio from 40% global buyers.
- Frontier Climate locks exclusive offtake contracts with 15 tech giants through 2030.
- Class-action lawsuit from Green Century Funds alleges greenwashing in high-integrity portfolios.
What makes Patch unique
- API-first marketplace enables granular carbon credit transactions from one gram upward.
- Aggregates 60-70 projects across 9-10 carbon sequestration pathways into single platform.
- Embedded climate action infrastructure powers carbon offsets within e-commerce and fintech products.
Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Meaningful Equity
Monthly wellness stipend for mental and physical health, covering gyms, courses, therapy, art, animals, etc!
Remote-friendly
Low ego, collaborative culture
Time-off As Needed Vacation Policy
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -2%1 year growth
↑ 0%2 year growth
↑ 0%From electric school buses to swanky carbon credit platforms, these under 30s are using their talents and ideas to shape the future of energy. A chemical engineer by training, Brennan Spellacy was working at Shopify when he became enthralled with emerging methods for reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon reduction approaches range from the simplest, like planting trees and driving more efficient vehicles, all the way to the outlandish, such as charring and liquefying biomass then injecting it deep underground, or reacting CO2 with limestone to trap it in “green” concrete. TIM TADDER FOR FORBES
HOUSTON, Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbon dioxide removals ("CDRs" or "carbon removals") and renewable energy company, Drax Group, has today partnered with Patch, a climate technology company that is building digital infrastructure for the carbon market of the future.Patch's software helps voluntary carbon market participants buy, sell, and manage credits. With the Patch Radius software solution, Drax customers will be able to seamlessly purchase from a number of portfolios of carbon credits, including those from BECCS by Drax.Members of the Drax and Patch teams meeting at VERGE 2023Drax has the ambition to become a global leader in carbon removals through the implementation of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology, with the aim of capturing 14 million metric tonnes of carbon removals a year by 2030. Supporting Drax's ambition in carbon removals, this partnership aims to accelerate the carbon market by facilitating carbon credit sales to companies of all sizes looking to achieve their climate goals."A strong carbon market will be essential to accelerating the deployment of technologies like BECCS, and business and organizations need to invest in building it now, if we are going to see removals at the volume needed to limit warming to 1.5°C," said Marc Bradbrook, SVP Business Development at Drax. "We are delighted to be entering a partnership with Patch which we hope will enable us to better engage with customers in the carbon credit market and scale this critical industry."High integrity carbon credits are increasing in demand as more organizations look to hit their decarbonization targets. In addition to using the Patch software to facilitate the sale of BECCS by Drax credits to Drax customers, Drax also plans to submit BECCS by Drax credits to be evaluated against Patch's project acceptance criteria
One of the 2023 mantras for my firm Energize Capital has been: “There has never been a better time to work in climate software.” From the billions of dollars entering the space through private and public investments to cultural shifts toward mission-driven careers, the influx of talent we’ve seen come into the climate space has been incredible.Recently, the climate tech sector reached a new talent milestone: attracting and retaining seasoned tech executives. Many growing climate companies are hiring for certain C-suite level positions – such as Chief Strategy Officers and Chief Revenue Officers – for the first time, and traditional SaaS executives are entering the climate space to fill the roles.Climate software is ready for the C-Suite Energize CapitalWhy now? The climate market has reached a point where it is both good for the world and good for customers’ wallets. Climate companies are growing into resilient businesses with sizeable annual recurring revenues. As those companies scale, they become capable of supporting more executive-level positions – and they increasingly require those executives’ expertise. More and more climate companies are recruiting people who have experience expanding internationally, lobbying, creating paths to public markets, and all the other business functions needed by large companies.To highlight this blossoming area of the climate workforce, Energize has interviewed a roster of impressive talent who have joined our own portfolio in the last year from leadership roles at major tech companies like WhatsApp and Robinhood. Here they share their backgrounds, their motivations for switching to a career in climate and the knowledge they’re transferring from their time in traditional tech.Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity.Matthew Idema, President & Chief Operating Officer at Aurora SolarMatthew Idema Aurora SolarStarted role: June 2023Before working in climate: Matt worked at Meta for 12 years, joining the company in 2010 to work on products to help small- and medium-sized businesses use Facebook, including Facebook Pages and Promoted Posts
本稿は、Cherubic Ventures（心元資本）によるものだ。2014年に設立された同社は、アメリカとアジアの両方で活動するアーリーステージ・ベンチャーキャピタルであり、運用総資産（AUM）は4億米ドルだ。シードステージ投資を中心に、次の象徴的な企業の最初の機関投資家になることを目指し、大きな夢と世界を変える勇気を持つ創業者を支援している。同社は、サンフランシスコ、シンガポール、台北に拠点を置いている。. 英語によるオリジナル原稿は Cherubic Ventures の Web サイトで読める。（過去の寄稿）. This guest post is authored by Cherubic Ventures. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. Focusing on seed stage investments, Cherubic aims to be the first institutional investor of the next iconic company and back founders who dare to dream big and change the world. Their team sits across San Francisco, Singapore, and Taipei
Malmö, Sweden-based climate tech VC firm Pale blue dot has announced the close of its second fund at €93 million. According to the firm, they are still actively making investments from the first fund, and are ironing out the final details of these tickets before officially uncorking the second vintage.Rooted in a pan-climate tech thesis, Pale blue dot invests in, but is not limited to, European and US-based food and agtech, industry, mobility, and fintech startups at the pre-seed and seed stage with an average ticket size ranging from €500,000 - €2 million. On par with the firm's first fund, the plan is to invest in 35 promising startups via the second fund.Pale blue dot has invested in 28 companies thus far, including Patch, Monta, Phytoform, Climate X, Hived, Overstory, and Green Got.In a strong show of support for the firms’ methodology, more than two-thirds of existing LPs chose to return to the table for Pale blue dot’s second outing and include serial entrepreneurs, family offices, and institutional investors from Europe and US.While not specifically named in the second fund, LPs of Pale blue dot’s first fund include Prima Materia, the investment firm founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and Shakil Khan, Pirates Impact, as well as the founders of companies like Contentful, Delivery Hero and Wise.“Receiving interest and recognition from the industry is good, but the fact that amazing founders keep picking us to be their partners on their journeys is the biggest vote of confidence and why we get up in the morning,” commented Pale blue dot General Partner Hampus Jakobsson