Software engineer(all levels)
at Carbon Equity

Role Overview

We are looking for software engineers at all levels to expand our growing engineering team.

We're on a mission to revolutionise climate tech investing, and we need engineers who love solving complex problems with elegant solutions. You'll join a team that values initiative, creativity, and the satisfaction of shipping features that make a real difference.

Our engineers work on a diverse set of technical projects. These include:

• Creating beautiful landing pages to drive conversion.
• Building dashboards to provide valuable insights for our investors.
• Building our own KYC process for a seamless investing experience.
• Developing in-house tools to support our investment team.
• Automating our financial reporting process.

The Role & Responsibilities

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and maintain our investment platform.
• Collaborate with our cross-functional product & tech team to implement new features.
• Debug and fix bugs, performance problems, and reliability issues.
• Write clean, well-tested, readable code according to best practices.
• Always be looking to improve our processes, tools, and technology.

How we work

We use Shape Up methodology, meaning:

• We have 6 weeks of deliberate, focused work, followed by 2 weeks of chill cooldown work to improve the codebase.
• Cooldown work is chosen by developers where possible.
• You’ll be collaborating closely with a designer.
• You have a lot of autonomy over how your feature is developed.
• Nothing ships late, we reduce scope instead.

The principles

• Keep it simple: With a Django monolith we can ship quickly without worrying about communication or versioning. We don’t over-engineer.
• Always be deploying: every pull request is merged directly to the main branch and deploys to production.
• Deploying isn’t scary: we write automated tests for every PR and in-progress features sit behind feature flags.
• Continuous improvement: we adopt what works, drop what doesn’t, and improve DX any way we can.

The tech

• Server side rendered Django
• PostgreSQL for persistent storage
• Redis for less persistent storage
• HTMX and Alpine.js for reactivity
• TailwindCSS for rapid styling
• Automated deployments to Heroku

Job requirements

Who You Are

• You are able to deliver quality features while keeping the rest of the team in the loop.
• You have extensive technical know-how to choose the proper level of architectural complexity for every step along the way and work with technical service providers accordingly.
• You are able to resolve bottlenecks and prioritise shipping over everything else.
• You're curious about new technologies and you're excited to find ways to implement them in your work.
• You are a strong communicator who can collaborate with team members to solve real problems.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related subject, or equivalent experience
• Excellent command of English, both written and verbally
• Located in the Netherlands or willing to relocate and has a permit to work in the Netherlands

What we offer

• You’re part of the mission, offering our employees a stock option plan based on experience
• Work at a fast-growing fintech company with the ambition to change the world for good
• Lots of room to bring your own ideas and the mandate to actually work on them
• Hybrid work culture, given that you are at the office at least 2 days a week
• Headquarters located in the heart of Amsterdam, close to the Nieuwmarkt
• Full-time (40 hours) and in-house position. No freelancing possible.
• 25 holiday days (full-time contract) and bi-annual company offsite