Full Stack Software Engineer

Summary

Relae, formerly Carbon Direct, helps organizations make defensible decisions across energy strategy, decarbonization, environmental markets, and natural capital. The Full Stack Software Engineer will build and ship features across services, data layers, and user-facing interfaces while working with real-world geospatial, tabular, and vector data. The role also involves collaborating with stakeholders, maintaining code quality, resolving system issues, and contributing to technical and AI-enabled development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features across the stack
• Work with data pipelines and services that move, transform, and store geospatial, tabular, and vector data
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to scope software and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code, and review others' code with the same standard
• Help diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and quality issues as they come up
• Contribute to technical decisions about system design, tooling, and process as the team grows
• Use AI and agentic coding tools as part of your everyday workflow, and help the team find good ways to use them

Skills

• Experience delivering and iterating on features across the stack
• Solid command of at least one modern server stack and one front-end framework
• Some exposure to data-intensive systems, such as ETL jobs, message queues, data pipelines, caching layers, workflow orchestration
• Comfort working with both cloud-hosted SQL Databases (BigQuery, Postgres, Snowflake etc.) and NoSQL Data Stores
• Strong communication skills and a habit of documenting your work so others can pick it up
• A genuine interest in climate, clean energy transition, and sustainability
• Hands-on experience with AI or agentic development tools, and a clear sense of where they speed you up and where they don't
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with scientific, environmental, sustainability, and/or energy network/grid data
• Prior experience at an early- or growth-stage startup
• Evidence of side projects or hobby hacking: things you've built on your own time, whether that's a GitHub history, a personal tool, an open-source contribution, or something you built just to see if you could
• Contributions to open source projects

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Experience delivering and iterating on features across the stack
• Solid command of at least one modern server stack and one front-end framework
• Some exposure to data-intensive systems, such as ETL jobs, message queues, data pipelines, caching layers, workflow orchestration
• Comfort working with both cloud-hosted SQL Databases (BigQuery, Postgres, Snowflake etc.) and NoSQL Data Stores
• Strong communication skills and a habit of documenting your work so others can pick it up
• A genuine interest in climate, clean energy transition, and sustainability
• Hands-on experience with AI or agentic development tools, and a clear sense of where they speed you up and where they don't

Nice to Haves

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with scientific, environmental, sustainability, and/or energy network/grid data
• Prior experience at an early- or growth-stage startup
• Evidence of side projects or hobby hacking: things you've built on your own time, whether that's a GitHub history, a personal tool, an open-source contribution, or something you built just to see if you could
• Contributions to open source projects

Benefits

• Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage for U.S.-based employees only.
• Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's, for U.S.-based employees only.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement, for U.S.-based employees only.
• Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats, for U.S.-based employees only.
• Reimbursement for a work-from-home setup, for U.S.-based employees only.