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Junior Software Engineer

  • Hybrid
    • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
  • Tech

Job description

About Carbon Equity

Carbon Equity is a pioneering climate tech venture capital and private equity fund investment platform. Our mission is to unlock private capital at the scale of billions to help solve the world’s greatest challenges, starting with climate change. We reshape the investment landscape by enabling individuals to invest in ventures that drive positive change while generating attractive financial returns. Carbon Equity is a high growth series A venture backed scale-up with 35 talented full time employees from companies such as Alpinvest, McKinsey, Messagebird, Dealroom, Felyx and Rocket Internet. Carbon Equity has offices in Amsterdam and Berlin.

Position: Software engineer (junior)

Location: Amsterdam

Reporting to: Head of Engineering

Role Overview

We are looking for a junior software engineers to expand our growing engineering team.

We're on a mission to revolutionise climate tech investing, and we need engineers who love solving complex problems with elegant solutions. You'll join a team that values initiative, creativity, and the satisfaction of shipping features that make a real difference.

Our engineers work on a diverse set of technical projects. These include:

  • Creating beautiful landing pages to drive conversion.

  • Building dashboards to provide valuable insights for our investors.

  • Building our own KYC process for a seamless investing experience.

  • Developing in-house tools to support our investment team.

  • Automating our financial reporting process.

Note: We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. As part of this commitment, we encourage individuals from all backgrounds and experiences to apply for our open positions, even if you don't meet all of the qualifications listed in the job description.

The Role & Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

  • Design, develop, and maintain our investment platform.

  • Collaborate with our cross-functional product & tech team to implement new features.

  • Debug and fix bugs, performance problems, and reliability issues.

  • Write clean, well-tested, readable code according to best practices.

  • Always be looking to improve our processes, tools, and technology.

How we work

We use Shape Up methodology, meaning:

  • We have 6 weeks of deliberate, focused work, followed by 2 weeks of chill cooldown work to improve the codebase.

  • Cooldown work is chosen by developers where possible.

  • You’ll be collaborating closely with a designer.

  • You have a lot of autonomy over how your feature is developed.

  • Nothing ships late, we reduce scope instead.

The principles:

  • Keep it simple: With a Django monolith we can ship quickly without worrying about communication or versioning. We don’t over-engineer.

  • Always be deploying: every pull request is merged directly to the main branch and deploys to production.

  • Deploying isn’t scary: we write automated tests for every PR and in-progress features sit behind feature flags.

  • Continuous improvement: we adopt what works, drop what doesn’t, and improve DX any way we can.

The tech:

  • Server side rendered Django

  • PostgreSQL for persistent storage

  • Redis for less persistent storage

  • HTMX and Alpine.js for reactivity

  • TailwindCSS for rapid styling

  • Automated deployments to Heroku

Job requirements

Who You Are

  • You are able to deliver quality features while keeping the rest of the team in the loop.

  • You have extensive technical know-how to choose the proper level of architectural complexity for every step along the way and work with technical service providers accordingly.

  • You are able to resolve bottlenecks and prioritise shipping over everything else.

  • You're curious about new technologies and you're excited to find ways to implement them in your work.

  • You are a strong communicator who can collaborate with team members to solve real problems.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related subject, or equivalent experience

  • Excellent command of English, both written and verbally

  • Located in the Netherlands or willing to relocate and has a permit to work in the Netherlands

What we offer

  • You’re part of the mission, offering our employees a stock option plan based on experience

  • Work at a fast-growing fintech company with the ambition to change the world for good

  • Lots of room to bring your own ideas and the mandate to actually work on them

  • Hybrid work culture, given that you are at the office at least 2 days a week

  • Headquarters located in the heart of Amsterdam, close to the Nieuwmarkt

  • Full-time (40 hours) and in-house position. No freelancing possible.

  • 25 holiday days (full-time contract) and bi-annual company offsite

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