Software Engineer

The Supercritical mission

Supercritical provides radical transparency in price, availability, and quality with our marketplace, helping the largest companies in the world to secure top-tier CDR credits quickly and confidently. With live pricing across multiple pathways and deep vetting to the highest standards, we simplify procurement and reduce risk in a nascent, complex, ever-changing market. Forward-thinking companies like The Economist Group, Virgin Atlantic, and Rothschild & Co trust Supercritical to meet their demand for high-quality carbon removal for immediate climate action today, not decades from now. We’re backed by the likes of Lightspeed Venture Partners, who led our $13M Series A, to accelerate our mission to scale carbon removal to gigatonnes.

Why is carbon removal critical?

Carbon removal includes nature-based solutions like afforestation and cutting-edge technologies that literally pull carbon from the sky and store it underground for millennia. Our team of climate scientists act as an outsourced carbon removal procurement partner to our customers. They source and vet carbon removal projects from the frontier of science with a rigorous method that covers 100s of dimensions across environmental, market, and delivery risk categories.

We need to scale to remove 10 billion tons a year by 2050 to stay below 1.5 degrees of warming. This is over 14,000x the rate we are removing carbon at today. We've only removed a few thousand tonnes to date. This will be a trillion dollar industry by 2050.

About the Engineering Team

You'll report to the Director of Engineering and join our small team of three full-stack engineers. We work cross-functionally alongside product, design, and our subject matter experts to build a carbon removal marketplace for enterprise buyers. We believe in being product-minded engineers, meaning you’ll have real ownership over the features you build, from design to launch.

If you want to learn more about our engineering culture, check out our intro page: https://gosupercritical.notion.site/engineering-at-supercritical

The role

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help us build and improve our product. You’ll be working across the stack, contributing to both backend and frontend development in our marketplace product, as well as internal tooling. You don’t need to be an expert in everything, but you should be comfortable picking up new technologies and collaborating with the team to ship great features. This role is ideal for someone developing in their career who wants to grow their skills while working in a highly collaborative environment.

What you’ll be doing

• Working with product, design and the wider team to understand requirements and shape features
• Writing simple, readable, maintainable code across the full stack in our Rails applications
• Designing, documenting and implementing database model changes, and writing database migrations as needed
• Participating in code reviews with the rest of the team
• Deploying and monitoring features to ensure they perform well in production
• Learning from and contributing to a growing engineering culture

Requirements

You’ll be a great fit if:

• You’re comfortable working across the stack, whether that’s building APIs, working with databases, or developing user interfaces
• You have experience implementing frontend code using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• You have experience in a high-level language (e.g. Ruby, Python and JavaScript)
• You have experience with a web framework (e.g. Rails, Django)
• You’ve worked with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and understand how to design and query them efficiently
• Have a quality mindset and are passionate about testing
• You’re a self-driven and proactive engineer who can unblock themselves by asking questions and collaborating with others
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and working through open-ended problems collaboratively

Interview process

• Talent partner screening call (30 mins)
• Interview with our Director of Engineering (1 hour)
• Technical interview with our Principal Architect (1.5 hours)
• (Optional) Meet the team (30 mins)
• An opportunity to meet some of the wider team, such as Design, Product and other disciplines
• Founder interview (45 mins)

Our values

We have set ourselves the mission of leading the carbon removal market to 14,000x its current size by 2050. In order to do that we need brave adventurers that think huge and deliver at speed. We call this the 14,000x mindset. The key components of the 14,000x mindset are:

• 🙋 Ownership mentality: We relish autonomy and we create it for others. We are deeply curious and thrive on understanding the root cause of complex problems. We take ownership over our own and our team’s development by giving and soliciting direct and actionable feedback.
• 🏎️ Move fast: We identify the most important problems to solve and cut everything else. We test ideas early so we don’t waste time on dead ends. We default to action and deliver awesome results.
• ☀️ Radiate positive energy: We come to problems with energy and passion. We nurture new ideas and engage positively in testing them. We inspire our colleagues to go further and are resilient to set backs. We recharge by taking time off. We are here for a great day, not a long day.
• 📣 Communicate proactively: We communicate simply and directly. We broadcast updates, insights and lessons learnt, especially when things haven’t gone to plan. We give as much context as possible so our teammates can make great decisions.

Benefits

💰 Competitive salary – £50,000-£60,000 (depending on experience)

🌴 Unlimited annual leave – Take the time you need to recharge

🎉 Extra time off – The first Friday of every month is a company-wide day off

💡 Pension contribution – We’ll match your 5% contribution with 3%

🏡 Remote-first work – We are a remote-first company, with the option to use our London Shoreditch office whenever you want

💚 Wellbeing & home setup support – £1,000 annual wellbeing allowance + up to £500 for home office equipment

💃 Team socials – Monthly company gatherings in London and annual company multi-day offsites

Diversity and inclusion

We’ve been committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace since day one of the company. We’re the only company we’re aware of with a 50:50 gender balanced list of investors and our day to day processes are always defined with D&I in mind, for example our remote first policy and flexibility around working time.

We are excited to encourage applications and interest from individuals underrepresented in the climate and tech space. Climate change and climate justice is a social issue that cuts across race and gender. We welcome applicants with lived experience across these issues.

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire!

UK Sponsorship & Applicants currently outside the UK

• UK Work Sponsorship: Unfortunately, at this stage of our growth, we are unable to offer UK sponsorship to applicants.
• Candidates who live outside the UK who are not looking to live and work in the UK, are within 3 hours of the GMT/BST timezone and are willing to travel to London quarterly are encouraged to apply. Please note we will use an Employer of Record arrangement in these circumstances.