Description
About Earthmark
We are a fast-growing ClimateTech company providing climate intelligence to ecommerce platforms. Our flagship product is a 1-5 score, like a Trustpilot for sustainability, showing the environmental performance of brands which are embedded into online customer journeys.
Our goal is to speed up the transition to a more sustainable economy by simplifying environmental data and delivering it to people in places that matter.
Making the world’s sustainability information transparent and easily digestible is a priority for us. Our current work in this area has attracted top affiliate networks and large distribution partners which have helped deliver our solution into the wild to millions of users worldwide.
About the role
This role will require c. 2 days/month starting in March 2025, paid at a competitive rate. Our current tech is based on AWS infrastructure and includes APIs, a web app for viewing the database hosting thousands of brands’ environmental data as well as customer API usage analytics, web scraping capabilities and the automated application of our rating algorithm.
As Backend Software Engineer, your role will be responsible for supporting our AWS infrastructure, managing the database, working with APIs and deploying new solutions on the product roadmap. Short term, this will involve the setup of new customers utilising our API, updating the automated rating algorithm to reflect methodology updates, incorporating new AI functionality, data refreshes and general technical maintenance.
Responsibilities
Maintain the technical AWS infrastructure including our web-scraping, partner integrations, database and API.
Deliver key activities on the product roadmap including enhancements to our database, API and rating algorithm.
Work with product, tech and advisors to identify opportunities to improve infrastructure, methodology and data quality methods.
Provide insight for strategic reports, including the measurement of key success criteria such as impact generated, customer, partner and user behaviour data.
Key skills and experience
Experience with AWS, including parallelisation.
API development: Experience in creating and maintaining applications using the FastAPI framework.
Experience with Python and Pandas
Database management: Capable of maintaining and optimising MySQL databases for performance and reliability.
Dashboarding applications: Expertise in deploying and managing dashboarding applications, with specific experience in Plotly Dash.
Cloud management: Proficient in setting up and managing virtual machines (VMs) in cloud environments.
Web scraping: Proficiency in web scraping techniques and tools.
Data extraction from APIs: Ability to pull data from various APIs efficiently.
Data processing: Skilled in merging, cleaning, and ingesting data into databases.
Data pipelines: Experience in establishing data pipelines and data aggregation for analytics and rating methodologies.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to explain complex issues to non-expert colleagues and create clear documentation and other communication assets.
Flexible, enthusiastic and proactive approach to work with the ability to work collaboratively as part of a global, diverse team.
Bonus skills
Prior experience working in a similar field and/or for a remote-first start-up.
Passion for tackling climate change and supporting the transition to a greener economy.
Extensive knowledge of the sustainability, ESG and climate landscape.
Why join Earthmark?
Purpose-driven: Join a company leading the charge to tackle the climate crisis.
Career growth: Be an early team member in a small, fast-growing company where your impact can be exponential.
Payment flexibility: Competitive day rate or fixed contract rate options.
Flexible remote working.
Ready to apply?
Just send your CV and cover letter to [email protected] and we'll be in touch.