Senior Front-End Engineer
London, London, United Kingdom
Full Time
Product
Experienced
Who we are:
Our mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to net zero carbon, but we need to move quickly. Emitwise wants to ensure that every organisation across the world, big or small, is able to embark on a sustainability journey that culminates in net zero. The planet deserves more than just another tech company, and if you do too, then keep reading.
At Emitwise, we've built a team that has the skillset and desire to bring automated carbon accounting to life — saving businesses time, money, and emissions. We have built a platform which makes it significantly easier and faster for companies to calculate, track, and reduce their carbon emissions. This allows them to reduce costs, future-proof their business, and become sustainability leaders. Ultimately, we're a group of people disenchanted with business as usual and looking to make a real impact through creative innovation.
We’re a well-funded post-Series-A startup backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors who share our mission, including True Ventures, Outsized Ventures, Lightbird Capital, ArcTern, Social Impact Capital and Xplorer Capital. To develop industry-shifting products we work with pioneers like Marc Engel, Ex Chief Supply Chain Officer of Unilever, Lynelle Cameron, ex Chief Sustainability Officer of Autodesk and Rob Bernard, Chief Sustainability Officer of CBRE.
Read more about us in publications like Business Leader, ESGToday and Forbes.
Your mission:
What are you waiting for?
If this sounds like a team you'd like to join, a mission you'd like to be part of and a role you'd thrive in, then apply now! And if you’re not sure whether you’re what we’re looking for - send us your CV anyway! We love to hear from people who are passionate about what we do, and we always take the view that a good cultural fit (and mission alignment) is much more important than ticking all the “qualifications, skills and experience” boxes. Whatever skills you bring to the table and whatever background you're coming from, we welcome you to start a conversation with us. The time to act is now.
We also believe that diversity is the cornerstone of innovation. We embrace uniqueness and continually strive for equity for all. Ultimately, our team powers Emitwise. We want all our employees to feel valued and appreciated for who they are, where they come from, and what they've achieved. Our employee policy is designed to prevent discrimination regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique.
All that said, it’s also important to mention that we are currently only able to accept applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK, and we like to deal directly with our candidates so no agencies please!
Our mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to net zero carbon, but we need to move quickly. Emitwise wants to ensure that every organisation across the world, big or small, is able to embark on a sustainability journey that culminates in net zero. The planet deserves more than just another tech company, and if you do too, then keep reading.
At Emitwise, we've built a team that has the skillset and desire to bring automated carbon accounting to life — saving businesses time, money, and emissions. We have built a platform which makes it significantly easier and faster for companies to calculate, track, and reduce their carbon emissions. This allows them to reduce costs, future-proof their business, and become sustainability leaders. Ultimately, we're a group of people disenchanted with business as usual and looking to make a real impact through creative innovation.
We’re a well-funded post-Series-A startup backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors who share our mission, including True Ventures, Outsized Ventures, Lightbird Capital, ArcTern, Social Impact Capital and Xplorer Capital. To develop industry-shifting products we work with pioneers like Marc Engel, Ex Chief Supply Chain Officer of Unilever, Lynelle Cameron, ex Chief Sustainability Officer of Autodesk and Rob Bernard, Chief Sustainability Officer of CBRE.
Read more about us in publications like Business Leader, ESGToday and Forbes.
Your mission:
We are looking for a talented Senior Front-End Engineer to take ownership of our front-end technology stack, driving improvements in scalability, performance, and user experience. In this role, you’ll collaborate with product designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality features and maintain a best-in-class front-end architecture. While this is not a management position, your expertise and leadership in front-end technology will help guide the team toward implementing modern, efficient, and scalable solutions.
The impact you'll have:
- Enabling companies to rapidly progress towards net-zero
- Allowing companies to calculate their emissions for the first time
- Developing detailed and accurate emissions of the products they produce
- Engaging their supply chain to do the same
The work you'll do:
- Front-End Development: Take ownership of the front-end architecture, processes, and tooling, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability of our codebase using best practices.
- Collaboration: Work closely with design and product teams to transform UI/UX designs into pixel-perfect, responsive, and accessible web applications.
- Technical Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in front-end code quality, performance, and developer experience.
- Integration: Collaborate with full-stack and back-end engineers to consume APIs efficiently and optimize data handling in the front-end.
- Innovation: Research and introduce new tools, frameworks, or workflows that align with the team’s goals.
- Team Participation: Engage in sprint planning, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
What you'll need:
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer.
- Expertise in front-end development using React and TypeScript. This likely means more than two years as a dedicated front-end engineer or more than four years in full-stack development.
- A degree of comfort in working on backend systems. While not mandatory, a willingness to upskill in this area is appreciated.
- Competence in at least one additional general-purpose programming language. Our backend primarily uses Go, with some components in Python, but experience in other languages is also valuable.
- Experience in small startup environments, understanding the associated limitations and trade-offs.
- Flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.
- The right to work in the UK and the ability to come into our London office at least once a week.
- Passion for our mission.
What's nice to have:
- Experience with some or all of the other technologies we use in our stack, including Go, Python, Postgres, Kubernetes, and AWS.
- Experience in DevOps/infrastructure work or secure development practices.
- Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to team processes.
- Exposure to full-stack development, particularly with Node.js or similar back-end frameworks.
What's in it for you:
- A competitive salary range of £70-90k as well as attractive options package
- Pension matching to 5% (on qualified earnings)
- Comprehensive health insurance policy provided by Aviva
- £60 per month against gym or training costs
- Take mental health days, no questions asked
- Recommended 28 days of annual leave (not including bank holidays)
- Flexible working hours
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity to purchase a work-from-home set-up
- Shared parental benefits and leave available (applicable for either parent, as well as for births or adoptions)
- Caregiving benefits and leave available
- Regular team socials, including celebrating company milestones, team socials, charity work or holiday parties
What are you waiting for?
If this sounds like a team you'd like to join, a mission you'd like to be part of and a role you'd thrive in, then apply now! And if you’re not sure whether you’re what we’re looking for - send us your CV anyway! We love to hear from people who are passionate about what we do, and we always take the view that a good cultural fit (and mission alignment) is much more important than ticking all the “qualifications, skills and experience” boxes. Whatever skills you bring to the table and whatever background you're coming from, we welcome you to start a conversation with us. The time to act is now.
We also believe that diversity is the cornerstone of innovation. We embrace uniqueness and continually strive for equity for all. Ultimately, our team powers Emitwise. We want all our employees to feel valued and appreciated for who they are, where they come from, and what they've achieved. Our employee policy is designed to prevent discrimination regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique.
All that said, it’s also important to mention that we are currently only able to accept applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK, and we like to deal directly with our candidates so no agencies please!
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