Senior Backend Engineer

About Normative
At Normative we are creating the norm for carbon accounting by providing intelligence to companies to reduce their climate footprint. We translate financial data into tangible carbon insights enabling companies to understand and reduce their carbon emission. What we do has a real positive impact on the climate. You can too!

The Role
We are looking for a passionate and curious Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role you will have a lot of impact on the server-side of our products and overall on the technical processes and approaches. Our goal is to further accelerate our work to make the accounting process as smooth as possible for our customers. Every improvement you make directly contributes to helping companies reach net zero emissions.

We use mostly Typescript and some Python on the server; Angular, React and Svelte on the client, and tools like SonarCloud, Sentury and GitHub actions for CI/CD.

What you will do
- Accurately transform business needs into technical requirement in a close collaboration with the Product department.

- Achieve goals as a team together with other engineers.

- Deliver value often and get feedback from the stakeholders.

- Perform code reviews and initiate discussions to find the best technical approaches.

- Deploy and monitor services using Normative’s cloud infrastructure.

- Contribute to quality, and engage in improving engineering practices and processes together with your team.

- Share your knowledge, coach and mentor your teammates if needed.

We think you will be a good match if
- You want to be a part of a team working against climate change.

- You have strong experience with Typescript.

- You have a track record of delivering high-quality production code and robust software products.

- You have good knowledge of modern web application development, including API development, databases, and operating systems

- You have built, deployed, and operated high-availability services in an environment of continuous integration and delivery.

- Experience with (or interest in learning) the following is a plus: The Python data stack, DevOps best practices, and data modeling.

- Interest in learning, exploring and sharing.

The Team
Our core values and the culture we aim for:

- Stay mission-driven and data-informed

- Contribute to developing a team based on trust, transparency, and respect

- Strive for individual growth and team performance

- See feedback as a tool for improvement - we learn from our efforts; both successes and mistakes.

- Value continuous improvements over static best practices

We also believe you enjoy working in an environment with typical challenges of a growing company, asking a lot of questions and learning new things. At Normative we believe that collaboration with teammates is essential and you’ll thrive if you like to explain and discuss technical approaches with other engineers.

We also believe you are
- A person that deeply cares about making a real contribution towards a sustainable future

- Enjoying working in an environment with the typical challenges of a growing company, asking a lot of questions, and learning new things

At Normative you will work in a fast-paced environment with driven and skilled coworkers. We trust that you do your job on time and with excellence. At Normative you’ll have opportunities for professional development and competitive benefits.

Location
Normative operates on a hybrid remote model (based on time zone) with offices in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and London. For this role, you can be based either in one of our office hubs or work remotely. If you want to relocate, we only offer this to Sweden from within EU at the moment. More information will be provided during our recruitment process.

To be hired remotely, you’ll need to be located in a country 2 hours +/- to the Central European Time Zone. If you want to join our mission from other countries, we are able to offer employment where remote.com (https://remote.com/country-explorer)are able to employ, meaning you will be hired through local labor laws with a local market salary, but enrolled as a fully permanent employee. We will offer you a home office set up and you will be requested to travel to one of our hubs to meet your team/the company approximately 4 times per year ( depending on your role).

To ensure we walk the talk we use trains for up to 6 hours of travel and flights for longer travels.

The process
We adopt a continuous selection process, so make sure to apply as soon as possible! Normative handles sensitive financial data and we will therefore conduct a background check before signing any candidate.

We welcome diversity with open arms and want to see candidates from different backgrounds and experiences.