Job Purpose and Background

In 2023 CDP underwent a complete digital transformation, seeing us transition the annual disclosure cycle from a paper-based, human-intensive and vendor-dependent stack, to a completely in-house developed, modernised and scalable product that will revolutionise the customer-experience for both external and internal users. As part of this transformation we also built completely new teams, spanning across Design, Product, and Engineering.

The Engineering team is made up of three unique domains;

• Disclosure: how CDP builds and programs questionnaires, and respondents provide their data
• Scoring: how CDP scores and assesses respondents' data
• Data: how CDP can provide datasets and products to customers

We are hiring four Senior Full Stack Engineers into our squads to play a key role in the ongoing development and innovation of our newly created platform. Reporting into one of our Lead Engineers, you will not only collaborate with your squad, but also contribute new initiatives and ideas to shape the future of the function.

Key responsibilities include:

• Reporting to a lead engineer, work collaboratively within one of our squads, that includes Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Product Designers and a Product Owners.
• Write clean, high-quality, well-documented code using an object orientated language
• Perform regular code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, and adherence to company standards / industry best practice.
• Optimise the application’s performance and ensure its scalability.
• Gather requirements, provide technical expertise, and contribute insights to enhance the software solutions.
• Maintain clear and comprehensive technical documentation, ensuring smooth collaboration and knowledge sharing among team members.
• Mentor junior colleagues.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and improvement.

You will have the following skills and experience:

• Strong proficiency in React (essential), typescript, NextJs (essential), and NestJs (desirable)
• Experience with GraphQL and / or RestAPI, Prisma ORM (any type of ORM), Caching (Redis / Zustand)
• Experience developing on to a cloud native platform preferably Azure (knowledge of additional Azure components is a plus (Azure DevOps)
• Experience in TDD is essential and are comfortable writing tests
• Can proactively identify opportunities to improve useability, performance and scalability, whilst refactoring and reducing technical debt
• Exposure to relational databases with knowledge of SQL
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) would be preferred but not essential.
• Experience working in Agile and DevOps environments.
• Excellent team players who enjoy finding solutions with the team, mentoring juniors and contributing to enhancing our ways of working
• Knowledge, interest, and passion for the environmental and / or sustainability space

Salary and benefits:

• Working for a leading people-centric environmental NGO with dedicated, passionate and caring coworkers;
• Competitive NGO salary and 8% Company Pension Program;
• 30 days annual holidays (with purchased leave options);
• Flexible working hours (with option to take flex-days)
• Up to 6 months remote work anywhere in the world
• Paid sabbaticals, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Office offering prayer room and breastfeeding facilities

Before you apply

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How to apply:

Please upload your CV in the application form.