Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform

Description

The company's AI technology underpins its enterprise software. It has billion-dollar revenue and more than 7000+ employees across all continents.

This senior role combines hands-on building with technical leadership across the stack. The work is software that supports industrial decarbonization, and you will shape how products are designed, delivered and run.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and build of APIs, back-end services and user interfaces that put accessibility first and scale well.
• Build AI-driven features across front end and back end for carbon accounting, ESG data collection and sustainability planning.
• Steer the platform toward modular, event-driven, API-first components.
• Give technical direction and weigh trade-offs between scalability, maintainability, performance and product impact.
• Take charge of reliability, including telemetry, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident response and ongoing service improvement.
• Promote DevOps practices such as CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring and application-level operations.
• Work with Platform Engineers in a lean DevOps shared service model, owning application-level DevOps within your team.
• Mentor engineers and push engineering best practice and a higher technical bar across the team.
• Champion code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security and maintainability.
• Own the quality of what ships, including test automation, continuous improvement and production readiness.
• Work closely with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering and other teams on discovery, trade-offs and delivery.
• Focus on customer pain points and deliver elegant, scalable engineering solutions.
• Spot technical risks, performance bottlenecks and chances to improve architecture and ways of working.

Requirements

• Essential: You have worked across the full stack, building both front-end and back-end software.
• Essential: You have solid hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks, React in particular or something similar.
• Essential: You have strong back-end experience, ideally in Go or another general-purpose language.
• Essential: You have designed and built scalable APIs, services and cloud-native applications.
• Essential: You understand DevOps well, including CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, automation and incident response.
• Essential: You have delivered secure, observable, high-quality production software.
• Essential: You care about code quality, automated testing, documentation, performance and maintainability.
• Essential: You can lead technical design discussions and influence architecture decisions.
• Essential: You communicate and collaborate well with Product, Design, Platform and Engineering teams.
• Essential: You take ownership of outcomes from design through to production.
• Desirable: Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Desirable: Experience with event-driven architectures, distributed systems or microservices.
• Desirable: Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
• Desirable: Experience in cross-functional product teams.
• Desirable: Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to engineering standards.
• Desirable: Experience with AI-enabled, data-intensive, sustainability, carbon intelligence, ESG reporting or enterprise SaaS products.
• Desirable: Familiarity with sustainability frameworks and standards such as GHG Protocol, CSRD and SBTi.
• Desirable: Familiarity with observability, reliability engineering, SLOs, error budgets and production incident management.

Conditions

Hybrid working is available, with flexibility to fit individual needs.

The company is committed to an inclusive workforce that reflects diverse cultures, backgrounds and viewpoints.