ABOUT PLEDGE

Pledge is a climate infrastructure platform making it simple for businesses of every size to integrate carbon measurement & offsetting tools into their customer experience. The initial focus is set on high-emitting use cases such as logistics and transportation. The team is on a mission to make businesses climate aware and help accelerate their transition to net zero.

Pledge was founded in 2021 by early employees of Revolut and the co-founder of Freetrade. Investors include climate and b2b technology investors Visionaries Club, Lowercarbon Capital as well as the founders of Checkout.com and Unity.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll be a core team member of Pledge's engineering team and will play a defining role in the building and the quality of our products. You’ll work directly with the founders and be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.
Pledge works with B2B customers across a range of sectors including logistics, transportation and e-commerce amongst others.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Defining the design and creation of scalable software
• Working as part of a cross-functional agile team including developers, product design, product management and other stakeholders in order to ideate software solutions
• Designing and developing client-side and server-side applications
• Designing and developing modern and secure internal and public APIs
• Writing clean, documented and functional code
• Testing software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshooting, debugging and upgrading software
• Writing technical documentation
• Working with data scientists and analysts to improve software

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Proven experience as a full-stack developer, ideally working on B2B SaaS products and APIs
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies and common stacks
• Knowledge and experience of industry best practices and tools
• Experience developing web based applications
• Experience with the stack used at Pledge: React.JS, Node.JS, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, AWS
• Experience with Git, Docker and CI/CD
• Experience with serverless architecture e.g. AWS Lambda
• Worked at a large tech company or high growth startup

WHAT WILL MAKE YOU SUCCESSFUL

• You share Pledge’s mission to enable businesses to take action on their climate impact
• An appetite for technical and technological challenges
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages
• Awareness of Development and Agile principles
• You can work autonomously and take ownership with a high degree of integrity
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• You operate best without lots of bureaucracy
• You approach work in a logical way and operate from first principles

BENEFITS

• Stock options - we are all owners of Pledge
• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
• Pension plan
• Private health insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible and remote working arrangements
• Learning and development budget for books, courses and conferences
• All the tech you need to perform
• Yearly offsite and team building events