About the role
We’re looking for a well-balanced Senior Full Stack Engineer to join a newly formed squad with the goal of developing a new sustainability reporting platform that meets the needs of what we call ‘private companies’. This is very much a ‘startup within a startup’ squad, hence you’d be a key driver in helping the organization expand into a new market segment. There is still a lot of uncertainty around what the real customer and user value is, so you’ll need to have an experimental, iterative mindset where through rapid delivery you’ll work to uncover what our customers need.
The squad is still forming and for now, is composed of a Product Manager and an Engineering Manager, but success dependent could grow quickly in the future. You’ll need to orient yourself quickly with this new business domain, work collaboratively with various stakeholders, and bring to bear your problem-solving skills to deliver an MVP that will help Novata to establish a foothold in this emerging market.
This role is ideal for an engineer who likes to work on products in their infancy and likes to roll up your sleeves and work across the full stack, building components, creating API endpoints, and stitching together cloud services to deliver real end-user value, fast.
You will spend your time
- Applying your skills, knowledge, and experience to help develop a new sustainability platform suitable for a new customer segment and market.
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders, understanding their pains and inefficiencies, and turning those problems into high-value deliverables.
- Ensuring our platform and tooling are robust, secure, scalable, and have a solid foundation that other engineers are excited about building upon.
- Contributing to our guilds, keeping abreast of what other engineers in the collective are up to, and creatively reusing and adapting components to get value shipped as quickly as possible.
- Coaching and mentoring other members of the collective, helping them to grow by improving their skills and abilities.
- Fulfill additional duties as requested.
We use and teach
- TypeScript, React, and Node.js for our platform
- Figma, Storybook, and BrowserStack for our Design System
- Postgres, Metabase, and Snowflake for data storage
- GitHub for source control and Jira for change management
- Docker to package our services into containers
- Harness, GitHub, and Argo CD for CI/CD
- DataDog for monitoring and observability
- AWS for infrastructure, specifically EKS, RDS and S3
- Terragrunt and Terraform for infrastructure orchestration
Requirements
You should apply if
- You have 5+ years of demonstrable experience developing testable, scalable web applications using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and relational SQL.
- You have a start-up mentality and are responsible, energetic, ambitious, adaptable, and willing to jump in wherever you might be needed.
- You have a product engineering mindset, are passionate about customer outcomes, and can visualize things from the users' perspective.
- You like solving hard problems and can apply your creative thinking to deliver pragmatic solutions whilst working within various constraints.
- Sound judgment, and you understand how to balance building the right thing over building the thing right.
- You have a keen mind for detail, have a no-compromise approach to quality, and are committed to delivering the best experience possible to our users.
- You thrive in an inclusive, respectful, and highly collaborative work environment where every voice matters and healthy debate is encouraged.
About Novata
Novata is a public benefit corporation created and funded by a unique consortium of foundations and private sector companies including the Ford Foundation, the Omidyar Network, S&P Global, and Hamilton Lane. We are a for-profit, mission-driven company with the goal of empowering the private markets to build a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism. By bringing together the brightest minds in financial data, private equity, social justice, and inclusive capitalism, we aim to build the best technology and tools for the private markets to better collect, analyze, benchmark and report ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) data. We have an experienced and diverse team who are as ambitious about growing a successful company as we are about making an impact.
About the Product and Engineering team
We’re a team of around 55 mixed-discipline individuals, split into 8 cross-functional squads. We focus on outcomes, not output, hence we like to be quite experimental and work in an agile fashion delivering small vertical slices of functionality often so that we can quickly discover where the real value lies for our users and customers.
As the organization moves into its scaleup phase, we’re tuning our priorities and rebalancing our focus on feature delivery by investing more in our underlying codebase and developer experience, addressing key technical debt, addressing painful bottlenecks, and revisiting early technical decisions so that we can better scale and deliver value, faster.
Benefits
What’s in it for you
- Anticipated salary up to £90-110k per annum depending on your experience plus stock options
- Hybrid approach to working, with regular coworking days in our London office as well as access to offices in New York
- 30 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
- A non-contributory pension scheme of 9% of your base salary from us
- Comprehensive private medical insurance for you and your dependents.
- Life Assurance and Income Protection
Be aware that
- This is a hybrid role, applicants are expected to spend at least 1 day per week in a Novata office although if that doesn’t work for you we do have some flexibility on allowing more remote work.
- Applicants must be located in and eligible to work in the UK. Sorry, but we can’t currently support or sponsor visa applications.
