Back-end Engineer
CUR8
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Evaluating high-quality carbon removal projects by extracting data points from complex sources.
- Applying proprietary efficacy and risk models to structure data for customer use.
- Collaborating with Lead Software Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, and Scientists to build and maintain data services that power models.
- Turning scientific criteria into scalable software for effective carbon removal.
Requirements
- Building the Application Logic: Writing the code that orchestrates the flow of data (ingesting documents, feeding them to our models, and handling the results reliably).
- Translating Science to Code: Collaborating directly with Carbon Scientists to understand their project criteria and turning those constraints into code logic or prompts.
- Taming Unstructured Data: Building systems that can take messy real-world inputs (PDFs, scientific reports) and extract structured, usable data for our scoring engine.
- Surfacing Insights: Designing the APIs and data structures that allow our Platform team to display these findings to customers in our UI.
- Production Experience: You have 2+ years of experience building and maintaining backend software.
- Language Fluency: You are comfortable with a statically typed language (Go, Java, Rust, or TypeScript) AND/OR Python.
- Data Wrangling: You have experience (or strong interest) in taking unstructured data and giving it structure.
- AI Curiosity: You might not be an ML expert, but you have played with LLM APIs and understand the basics of prompt engineering.
Benefits
- The chance to meaningfully contribute to reversing climate change
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity
- £1,000 annual learning & development budget
- 4 weeks/year to work from anywhere 🌍
- 6% pension (salary sacrifice)
- Regular team events, and a bright Shoreditch office
- A culture that respects boundaries, working parents, and different work styles
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data extractiondata structuringbackend software developmentAPI designdata wranglingprompt engineeringprogramming in Goprogramming in Javaprogramming in Rustprogramming in TypeScript
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcuriosity