Direct Hire Client is seeking a sensationally curious team player as a Founding Engineer (Full Stack Software) in San Francisco, CA. 

POSITION NAME:  Founding Engineer (end-to-end through shipping)
EXPERIENCE YOU MUST HAVE:5+ years of experience building and owning a complete end-to-end technology stack (Frontend + Backend + Cloud + CI/CD)
What Will make you stand out from others: You are/were a former founding member or an early technical employee
EMPLOYMENT TYPE:  This is a full time, W2 role (NO C2C, 1099, Contractors etc)
SALARY YOU WILL RECEIVE: TBD
EDUCATION YOU EARNED: School of Hard Knocks (Preferred Top Tier institute)
SPONSORSHIP: Only for the right exceptional candidate will visa support be provided
LOCATION: Based in the sf/bay area and are fostering a strong in-person first, collaborative, mission-driven culture
RELOCATION: Only for the right exceptional candidate will visa support be provided

You must care about the environment with a passion for Climate Change!
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The Mission

Accelerate gigaton-scale soil carbon sequestration around the world!


The Problem

Globally, soils have the potential to sequester over 1 billion tons of carbon through regenerative agriculture practices and emerging solutions like biochar and enhanced rock weathering. However today, measurement, reporting, and verification of soil carbon sequestration is not cost effective, accurate, or scalable. This prevents large-scale climate finance from being deployed to rapidly scale soil carbon improvement despite its massive potential to combat climate change, improve food security, and alleviate extreme poverty.

Our Company

We're building technology to accelerate gigaton-scale soil carbon removal and storage around the world. To start, we are building the world's best global measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform to accelerate high-integrity soil carbon sequestration. With Stanfords Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry Lab, we leverage technological innovation using ground truth sampling, remote sensing, and AI modeling to accurately and scalably measure soil carbon. For soil carbon project developers, we decrease the time, cost, and complexity of MRV while increasing the integrity of the carbon removal credits for carbon buyers. This enables the large-scale deployment of climate finance to incentivize the adoption of sustainable practices. We are focused on improving soil health in emerging economies to maximize global sequestration and community impact.

We are a public-benefit corporation driven by passion and purpose in service to our planet, people, and prosperity. We are backed by world-class investors including, and aare advised by an all-star team of Stanford climate professors with 100,000+ citations collectively.

Our Values

• Curiosity: Most solutions to reach net zero do not exist yet. We are looking for sensationally curious team players who use a beginners mindset to find novel solutions and embrace the growth mindset to overcome setbacks
• Kindness: Great teams change the world, we believe kindness is the foundation to build great teams on and also guides the impact we aim to have on our planet to pay it forward.
• Mamba Mentality: Kobe Bryants Mamba Mentality combines love, passion, and borderline obsession to improve every day and create a culture of collectively becoming the best we can be at our shared dream.
• Speed and Scale: We value teammates who are ready to move at the speed and scale necessary to meet the urgency of the climate crisis. If you are looking to coast, stick to big tech.
• Multidisciplinary and Multicultural Collaboration: The ability to think across disciplines and work with people from a variety of backgrounds is not just a requirement, but a unique advantage given that our work spans multiple domains and impacts communities around the world.

About US

We are based in the SF/Bay Area and are fostering a strong in-person first, collaborative, mission-driven culture. Our founders graduated from Stanford with a focus on Climate Science and AI. They have previously founded and led an international nonprofit that has partnered with farmers to provide over 100 million meals to families in need and published AI + Remote Sensing for Climate Change research as part of the Stanford ML Group.

The Role

Founding Engineer (Full Stack Software)

What does success in this role look like?

• You ship product and have fast outputs
• You make improvements to the product by taking initiative to get user feedback and developing your own intuition for the product which complements your deep technical understanding
• You establish best practices on internal infrastructure and the development environment to enable others to build on your work
  

Role Description

• You will lead the development of our Core Product: a soil carbon measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform
• As the first technical hire, you will work directly with the founders and own the entire technology stack, including making product decisions
• You will set the technical roadmap and have the opportunity to build out a world-class technical team and culture as you see best

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and owning a complete end-to-end technology stack (Frontend + Backend + Cloud + CI/CD)
• A track record of shipping and going through the full product development cycle right from writing the first line of code to product in the hands of users and iterating quickly on feedback
• Experience with setting up the technology stack and development infrastructure from Day 1 and scaling it with growth
• Ability to develop infrastructure/pipelines to support Machine Learning / Remote Sensing workflows
• Proactive and collaborative self-starter with a strong ability to attract other top technical talent and lead them effectively

Nice to Haves

• Past experience working in climate/agriculture is not a requirement, but a passion for climate is a plus!
• Past multidisciplinary teamwork (i.e. e.g. working on software in healthcare) is a huge plus, as you will be working with an interdisciplinary team with expertise in AI, Remote Sensing, Carbon Markets, Soil Carbon Modeling, Sustainable Finance
• Machine Learning and Remote Sensing experience is not required, but understanding how to support these workflows (e.g. setting up data pipelines, setting up infrastructure to parallelize model runs, automating the deployment of models to integrate with the core MRV product) is a huge bonus!
• You care deeply about climate change and feel a strong moral responsibility to act now. This extends into all facets of your life: both personal and professional. No action is too small and no goal is too big. Whether you have turned vegan or swear by public transport, we are big believers in embracing sustainability as a mindset and would love to learn what this means for you!

Do you have the 5?

1. 5 - 10 years of experience building and owning a complete end-to-end technology stack (Frontend + Backend + Cloud + CI/CD)
2. A track record of shipping and going through the full product development cycle right from writing the first line of code to product in the hands of users and iterating quickly on feedback
3. Ability to develop infrastructure/pipelines to support Machine Learning / Remote Sensing workflows
4. Proactive and collaborative self-starter with a strong ability to attract other top technical talent and lead them effectively
5. Early employee at a reputable startup and also has some leadership experience managing technical team


The Extras



If interested in this position please submit your resume with full contact details, i,e. full name, email address, phone number, etc

Please no phone calls, walk-ins, recruiters, C2C, LLCs or other agencies. EOE - Indigenous People, Black, People of Colour, Women identified, non-binary, LGBTTBQ2+ individuals are encouraged to apply

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