Join us on the journey to get to net zero
At Carbon Direct, we dedicate our scientific, software, and business expertise to empower organizations around the world to take climate action.
Our Mission
Enable organizations to reduce, remove, and utilize their emissions with carbon science
We are a purpose-driven carbon management firm dedicated to helping organizations around the world reach their climate goals. We make carbon science accessible and actionable with our end-to-end platform.
Global citizens with global impact
Whether a scientist, developer, or carbon markets expert, we are united by our mission to take climate action now. We are experts in our fields and we act with confidence. Located across 4 countries and 10+ states in the U.S., we offer both remote-friendly work options and dynamic, in-person experiences with offices located in Seattle, WA and Oakland, CA.
Diverse backgrounds bring diverse perspectives
We recognize that teams with diverse backgrounds and different experiences are powerful. Bringing together a variety of perspectives only enhances how we can effectively address the climate crisis. Together, we are creating an environment where everyone is celebrated and anyone can succeed.
Overview
As a key member of our engineering team, you will build new products and deliver innovative carbon management solutions. You will put the user first, prioritize business impact, and uphold engineering excellence. You will actively contribute to strategy, architecture, and roadmap discussions, leveraging your technical expertise and commercial awareness. You will participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. You should be capable and confident in contributing to full-stack engineering initiatives.
You thrive in a dynamic environment, quickly onboarding into new problem sets and domains. With a strong product engineering mindset, you focus on solving real user problems and delivering value to maximize climate impact. While working directly with stakeholders and scientific experts, you make informed tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and technical complexity to deliver impactful solutions. You effectively communicate these tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders. Finally, your passion for delivering world-class carbon management software will be essential.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly develop high-quality frontend features that support user needs
- Design well-structured backend data models and APIs that allow for long-term adaptability and scalability
- Drive features from conception to implementation to delivery and post-release support
- Support system maintenance, including relevant on-call rotations and incident response
- Develop tests and assessment metrics to maintain overall quality of deliverables
- Work closely with a diverse team across engineering, product, science, and marketing to build impactful solutions
- Drive pragmatic, impact-driven choices that balance business outcomes, product value, design goals, and engineering excellence
- Advocate for the end-user, ensuring products solve real problems and deliver tangible value
- Maintain an inclusive culture where shared successes are valued over personal wins.
Qualifications
- Experience in Application Development and/or Platform Engineering
- JavaScript familiarity is a must, Node and React experience is a strong plus
- Experience building web applications with modern UI frameworks (Next and Material UI)
- Ability to work directly with stakeholders and scientific experts to translate complex needs into technical requirements
- Experience building products from scratch and solving real user problems
- Self-starter with a track record of building and shipping impactful features independently
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, outcome-oriented environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in distributed teams
- Interest in AI-driven innovation and ability to leverage AI coding tools
- Passion for addressing climate change
Nice to Have
- Demonstrated ability to independently execute projects while incorporating guidance as needed
- Experience building AI-powered features and/or working with Python or LangChain or similar agentic frameworks.
- Background in climate technology or decarbonization solutions
- Experience with application security, authorization levels, and authentication
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure providers and CI/CD
Salary Range
$143,000-$175,000 a year
Benefits
While we love our work, our lives aren’t defined by it. At Carbon Direct, we offer a robust benefits package that considers the whole person, their partners, and their families – and we’re always looking to improve.
Our U.S. benefits* include:
- Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage. See a preview of our coverage here.
- Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
- Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
- Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup and monthly work-from-home stipend
*Please note that the benefits described apply to U.S.-based employees only. For our international employees, our benefits package varies by each country and its statutory requirements.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Carbon Direct is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. We adhere rigorously to our equal employment opportunity policies in connection with all employment decisions, including hiring, compensation and promotion.
Top Skills
What We Do
We believe that applying science is the only way to solve the climate crisis.
Scientific expertise is critical to both effective and efficient carbon management – yet it can be hard to access outside of the academic and public sectors. New research and technologies emerge every day in our nascent industry and it can be difficult to know what actions to take to achieve your climate goals. Carbon Direct is working to address these challenges by: building a world-class science team of carbon experts, analyzing existing and proposed policy regulations, applying science with real-world market experience, and translating our expertise into accessible software solutions.
Why Work With Us
We recognize that teams with diverse backgrounds and different experiences are powerful. Bringing together a variety of perspectives only enhances how we can effectively address the climate crisis. Together, we are creating an environment where everyone is celebrated and anyone can succeed.
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