Senior Fullstack Engineer - AI

Published on February 17, 2024

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?

Sweep is hiring a Senior Fullstack Engineer - AI, to work on our enterprise climate programme software. 
 
Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and AI the defining technology. We empower companies with an AI-infused platform that helps them manage their climate impact, and believe Sweep will make a meaningful contribution to a better future for all of us.
 
Ok, sounds promising. What will I be doing?
 
As part of the engineering team, you will work on building our SaaS tool that allows companies to measure and track their greenhouse gas emissions, set reduction goals and report on progress towards a cleaner future.
 
You will be joining a team that is specialized in leveraging AI to bring data into Sweep, solve key carbon accounting challenges with that data, and ultimately allow customers to make better AI-guided decisions.
 
To be more specific, this includes:
 
1. Develop and own features of the core product 🌱
  • Participate in every stage of the development life-cycle from design to implementation, testing, rollout and making everything run smoothly in production
  • Contribute to our technical architecture as we grow
  • Implement end-to-end features from data models to back-end development and UI development
  • Identify technical problems and develop software updates and fixes
2. Be a team citizen 👫
  • Participate actively in the team meetings (standup, planning, etc)
  • Review and comment pull requests and code changes
  • Lead technical design of significant features
  • Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence
3. Maintain and operate our infrastructure ⚙️
  • Build and set up new development tools and infrastructure
  • Automate and improve development and release processes
  • Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
4. Pursue quality 🔍
  • Be a quality gatekeeper
  • Improve processes and methodology to reach highest standards of quality
 
That sounds just right for me. What do I need to bring?
 
Glad you asked. This is who we’re looking for:
 
Qualifications 🏆
  • You have 8+ years of experience as a full stack software developer
  • Deep knowledge of ruby and JS
  • Ideally: react.js specifically, and familiarity with python
  • Experience with applying AI to data challenges is a plus, but not a requirement
  • Can demonstrate that your work had significant impact on product
  • Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities
 
Qualities 🧠
  • You have a passion for solving problems, developing the solutions and building products
  • You are enthusiastic, self motivated and autonomous
  • You value qualitative software and clean code
  • You bring all-round communication skills and an ability to work collaboratively
  • You are a team player and aim for velocity
  • You care about our mission of creating a better future for all of us
 
Copy that. And what’s in it for me?
 
Sweep is the market leader for climate software, with hundreds of the world’s most important companies as customers: from L’Oreal, Ubisoft and Royal Canin, to HP, EDF Energy and SSE.
 
You will join a dynamic (mostly remote) team of engineers, business minds, creatives and carbon experts spread across the world. We’re a fun bunch of people that want to work hard, and enjoy ourselves while doing so. And we believe in creating a calm environment, that knows that life is not just work, and we’ll all be doing better work because of that.
 
We’re big believers in creating successful businesses that are good for everyone, including society and the planet. That’s why we’re a “Entreprise à Mission” and a Certified B Corp.
 
We actively hire the best talent wherever you are in the world, and want to support you in doing your best work your way.
 
We think this might be the ride of our lives. And hopefully yours, too.