Senior Backend Engineer
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We’re a young startup with big ambitions. There’s plenty of potential to help shape the company, all while owning and growing your own role.
We work remotely, distributed across the world. But also have some optional co-working spaces in places with multiple Sweepers.
We work hard, and enjoy ourselves while doing so. We believe in creating a calm environment that knows life isn’t just work, and we’ll all do better work because of that.
Why Sweep?
Sweep is the modern way to manage your company's carbon emissions and create impactful climate action at scale.
Our data-driven software platform makes it easy to understand, manage and reduce your carbon footprint. Powerful collaboration features and user-focused design empower your staff and even your value chain to make a cleaner business a reality. Our integrated marketplace enables companies to directly purchase the best negative carbon, securing what will soon become a scarce resource. And with all your data in one place, our analytics offers unparalleled insights into your progress, and automatic reporting to your stakeholder.
Are you ready to come clean?
- Developing and owning features of the core product, from data models to the GraphQL API
- Actively participating in team meetings and contributing to significant feature designs
- Building and setting up new services, such as background jobs and lambda functions
- Automating deployments via our CI/CD systems and integrating these services into the existing environment
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes
- Pursuing quality through incremental, well-tested changes and improving QA processes
- Engineer degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in backend development
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Ruby, Python, or JavaScript
- Experience with agile development methodologies
- Ability to deliver on multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision
- A passion for problem-solving, creating solutions, and building products
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and autonomous
- A strong team player who values quality software and clean code
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborator at heart
- Committed to our mission of creating a better future for all of us