Lead Engineer (App Factory)

What is Sylvera anyway? ‍👩‍👨🌳

Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action. 

Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera. 

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact. 

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 150+ employees across the world with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date. 

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻

We’re looking for an ambitious Lead Engineer to lead our App Factory Team, reporting directly to our CTO. You will play an essential role in providing leadership for the team building highly innovative apps from scratch, following discovery work on the customer side. 

Specific responsibilities will include:

- Leading our cross-functional App Factory team. This team is our ‘app incubator’, where new ideas are built out from scratch and supported throughout the early stages of their life cycle, until they reach product market fit. 

- Partnering closely with our Product team (Product Managers, Product Designers) to explore, define and implement new apps. 

- Supercharging our velocity of producing new apps - removing blockers and bottlenecks to minimise the time between product ideas and prototypes. 

- Facilitating the creation of a library of templates, setting the team up to be able to build from reusable components.

- Establishing and documenting clear engineering best practice and processes within a new team, balancing this against the rapid delivery of new product ideas. 

- Mentoring and coaching our talented team of Front End and Back End engineers in conjunction with our Principal Engineering function.

We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚

- Can demonstrate extensive experience having built and implemented new products from scratch - working closely with Product teams to go from 0 to 1. 

- Has a hands-on coding background in a Full Stack capacity - Typescript/Node.js or Python, and React with Typescript (and who wishes to remain 40-60% hands on!)

- Puts great user experience and customer-focus are the forefront of everything they do, and who has a background working with Product Designers, going from Figma to implementation. 

- Embodies a ‘You build it you own it’ approach, with experience not just building out apps, but also ensuring these are reliable, secure, and performant. 

- Is experienced with implementing an agile approach for rapid and iterative development, breaking down complex work and deliverables to drive incremental gains. 

- Can demonstrate a strong delivery track record, with proven experience driving the strategic direction of a small agile team, whether in a Lead, or Engineering Manager capacity.

We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description

Benefits 💰

- Equity in a rapidly growing startup

- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance 

- Unlimited annual leave - and encouragement to actually use it!

- Enhanced parental leave 

- Up to 20 days paid sick leave 

- £500 WFH allowance 

- No corners cut in having the best tech to do your job

- Access to Mental Health support via Spill

- Monthly team socials

Location 🌍 

UK (with access to an office in London if you wanted to come in) 

Our Values 🙌

Own it: We believe in giving people the autonomy to own their impact.

Stay curious: Our business is built on transparency and debunking misperceptions.

Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: The right path isn’t always easy or obvious.

Collaborate with kindness: Great teams are built on open communication and respect.

What if you’re a partial fit? 🌱

We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description. 

Equal employment opportunity 🌈

Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.