Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Climate Policy Radar is an independent non-profit building open, credible data infrastructure and AI-powered tools for climate, nature, and development action. They are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Application team, where the primary responsibilities include creating new features, improving existing systems, and designing scalable solutions for their growing user base.

Responsibilities

• Helping us grow from a database to a data aggregator by improving our data import capabilities, including bringing in a new CMS
• Laying the groundwork to make our core product multilingual in 2027 (French, Spanish & Portuguese), to open up information across linguistic boundaries
• Improving the search engine in our core product to help people find what they are looking for
• Incorporating GenAI and RAG into our core product to enable move us from search engine to evidence synthesis (e.g., summaries, Q&A, comparisons)
• Sharing our data and services externally (e.g., via APIs) so that others can build upon our work

Skills

• Significant experience in highly collaborative cross-functional teams
• Enthusiasm for building and deploying backend services that are consumed by other teams, products, or external partners
• Experience working with AWS services and cloud infrastructure
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices: requirements gathering, code review, testing, version control, documentation
• Ability to design scalable, maintainable backend systems
• Experience collaborating with Product and domain experts to solve meaningful problems
• Familiarity with Search Indexes
• Familiarity with Generative AI
• Familiarity with Devops and Observability

Benefits

• A deep commitment to employee wellbeing, including policies such as 4 day workweek (same pay, Fridays off), unlimited annual leave, and a wellbeing allowance
• A vibrant, collaborative, empathetic work culture that thrives on innovation and the impact of our work
• Hybrid work environment (2 days a week) in London at TechSpace Goswell Road, near the Barbican. We welcome conversations about flexibility and remote work to accommodate individual needs

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