Staff Backend Engineer

We’re supercharging the clean economy:

Crux is the capital markets platform changing the way clean energy and manufacturing projects are financed in the U.S. Crux’s platform, market intelligence, and expert team help developers and manufacturers unlock financing through all stages of project development and operation. 

Our team of 40+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.

An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing:

Energy demand is growing for the first time in 20 years, driven by surging manufacturing, transportation, electrification, and data centers. Simultaneously, hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in domestic supply chains for critical minerals and components. Developers and manufacturers will require trillions of dollars in capital to meet growing needs.

Unfortunately, the capital markets supporting this transformation remain opaque, fragmented, and complex. At Crux, we recognized the missing infrastructure: a central capital markets platform designed specifically for the next century of American energy and industry. By connecting counterparties, providing market intelligence, and streamlining transactions, we unlock faster decision making, lower cost of capital, and accelerated investment.

About The Role

The traditional process for transacting tax credits is manual & onerous. We’ve built a product that solves parts of that problem and now we need to expand its breadth & depth in a rigorous, analytical way. We’re excited to grow our engineering team to help us with this! 

We are an experienced and highly collaborative group of eight engineers that has prioritized team diversity from the beginning. Our tech stack is composed of Typescript, React, SQL, built on top of Vercel and Supabase PaaS/BaaS. We value curiosity, open-mindedness, humility, and flexibility. Given the complexity of our domain, we look for folks who are deeply motivated to learn and do not hesitate to ask questions. We take psychological safety and inclusion seriously, and actively encourage sharing lots of ideas and opinions - it’s how we do our best work!

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners to build products and features that support the renewable energy transition

• Write readable, well-structured, well-tested, and well-documented code with an eye towards usability, performance, and scalability

• Lead the design and implementation of our next-generation backend and data platforms and infrastructure as we grow and scale

• Participate in and in some cases lead engineering learning and coworking sessions

• Contribute to building our team culture and developing our technical best practices 

Who you are

• 8+ years of professional backend or data engineering experience, including shaping the architecture and technical best practices of teams 

• B.S. in computer science, computer engineering, or related field

• Data or platform engineering expertise (e.g. data warehouses / data pipelines, MLOps, monitoring and observability, developer tooling and infrastructure)

• Authorized to work in the US or Canada

• You are a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and desire to learn and grow

• You have built/perpetuated/cultivated a collaborative and inclusive team environment, and have experience working on fully remote teams

Compensation 

• Annual base salary: $200,000-240,000 USD

• Company wide bonus tied to revenue goals

• Stock options

• Full health benefits, 20 days PTO, 10 company holidays

This is a fully remote role, with opportunities to co-work in SF, Seattle, DC, or NYC.

We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.