Sightline Climate accelerates the deployment of climate tech solutions through industry leading data, analytics, and research. Sightline’s subscription intelligence platform gives investors, corporates, and governments the insights they need to confidently build and finance the new climate economy. Sightline Climate also produces CTVC, the industry-leading newsletter read by 60,000 climate leaders.

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Backend Engineer to join our team. As a Backend Engineer, you will design, develop and implement software solutions across our data and web stack, and play a crucial role in delivering insights into the new climate economy to investors, corporates, and governments mobilizing strategies in the climate transition. Our ideal candidate has a strong technical background and a willingness to “wear many hats”, learn new skills, and take the initiative to develop new features as needs arise.

The Role

• Infrastructure — Develop and maintain our backend API. This will include building new endpoints and functionality for our data API, improving database query efficiency, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure.

• Database management — Develop and maintain our central database. This will include maintaining our ETL pipeline and building out our schema as the scope of data we collect continues to grow.

• Automation — Build out our automated data augmentation package. This will include software and prompt engineering for AI-enabled data augmentation.

• Analyst Support — Support our data analysts to input data into our database. This involves ongoing development and maintenance of our internal admin panel.

The Essentials

• 2+ years experience as a Backend Engineer or equivalent

• Experience in Python and PostgreSQL

• A passion for addressing the climate crisis through high quality research and data

• Interest in working for a fast-moving startup with a small, international team

• A BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant field

A Plus

• Experience using Django and/or DBT

• Experience in machine learning / natural language processing

• Experience with AWS (ECS, RDS, CloudFormation)

• Experience working with Jira / Agile framework

• Experience using Bitbucket Pipelines

• Working understanding of climate tech sectors

• Passion for unit testing, documentation, and high quality code

Our Offer

• Opportunity to work, learn, and make an impact at a fast-growing climate tech startup

• Based in London

• Generous stock options

• Flexible working hours

• 25 days PTO + federal holidays

Sightline Climate is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.