Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Climate Policy Radar

Climate Policy Radar is on a mission to organise, analyse, and democratise the world’s climate law and policy data. We build open databases and research tools so people can discover, understand, and generate data-driven insights on public laws and policies. Our work helps governments, researchers, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector to understand and advance effective climate policies and deploy climate finance.

Harnessing data science and AI and pioneering the application of natural language processing to this domain, our work unlocks previously inaccessible, unstructured data.

We are deeply embedded in the global climate and AI communities, and count some of the most important organisations and global climate leaders amongst our users, advocates, friends and advisors. 

We are seeking a Senior Full-stack Engineer who will be instrumental in this journey, building high-scale, high-impact tools to help move the needle on climate change.
 

What you’ll be doing

In this role, you will help build and improve our portfolio of high-impact tools and products for global climate law and policy. Bringing cutting edge data science work into a product domain where the user experience best practices haven’t been fully fleshed out. Our work is at the forefront of shaping the experience for researchers using an AI-powered research platform. Tasks include building out new features to help people find answers in large, complicated, dense text documents. Continuing to develop our tools for supporting data partners in curating large libraries of climate-related documents. And building out our “virtual research assistant” roadmap ambition, including leveraging and productionising large language models to help researchers analyse data.

Our ideal candidate will champion engineering excellence, open source, and delightful user experiences. We are looking for candidates with significant experience in highly collaborative cross-functional teams, excitement about working in a startup/scaleup environment and all that brings. We are a mission driven organisation and work best with people who have strong alignment with our values. We care about them deeply.
 

What experience you’ll need to apply:

• Experience using Python with one of the modern frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI, Tornado etc) to build REST APIs.
• Experience using React for frontend features.
• Strong database knowledge, SQL and PostgreSQL.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, version control (Git), shell scripting, OOP, unit and integration testing, and CI/CD.
• Some experience in system architecture and making technical decisions.
• Exposure to AWS (or other cloud platform) and best practices.
• Experience contributing to data-dense products with complex, scaling architectural needs.
• Demonstrated passion for open-source software.
• Significant experience in highly collaborative cross-functional teams.
• Excitement about working in a startup/scaleup environment and all that brings.

 
What’s in it for you?

• Salary ranging from £80-90k, depending on experience.
• A deep commitment to employee wellbeing.
• A 4-day workweek (same pay, Fridays off).
• Unlimited holiday.
• Wellbeing allowance.
• A vibrant, collaborative, empathetic work culture.
• A hybrid work environment (2 days a week) in London’s leading climate tech hub.

 

Inclusion and equality

Climate Policy Radar is an equal-opportunity workplace. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of heritage, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disabilities, relationship choices and status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 
 
We actively encourage applicants from diverse and historically underrepresented backgrounds.
 
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation in the process of application and selection, please let us know. 
 

What next?

We have chosen to partner with our friends at ADLIB who are managing the recruitment process for Climate Policy Radar. As a B Corp, they are well versed in attracting the best candidates that have the right skills and experience, combined with the desire to work for a business driven by purpose and a want to make a positive impact on society and the planet.

Please note that any candidates that approach Climate Policy Radar directly will be forwarded to ADLIB for consideration.