Lead Engineer, Data Platform

Scope3; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a mission-driven company focused on decarbonizing advertising as a Lead Engineer in the Data Platform team. This role offers the chance to build impactful tools and platforms while mentoring fellow engineers. You will work in a fully remote environment, collaborating with a diverse team across the globe. Scope3 is at the forefront of sustainability in the digital advertising space, and your contributions will help drive systemic change. If you're passionate about technology and the environment, this opportunity could be your next big career move.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data platform development within high volume environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS is essential.

Responsibilities

• Build the underlying platform and tools for data engineers and scientists.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with product and design leads.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Platform Development

Cloud Services (GCP/AWS)

Airflow

Clickhouse

Golang

Typescript

Tools

PostgreSQL

Big Query

Notion

Miro

Slack

Loom

Job description

Scope3 is the industry’s leading collaborative sustainability platform. By modeling the complex digital advertising supply chain, we help brands measure and dramatically reduce digital waste to reduce carbon emissions from advertising and increase the efficacy of advertising investment. This is an exceptional opportunity to build a company alongside great people and make a difference in one of the most important issues facing the planet: the climate crisis.

We’re a reliably-funded company of 100+ folks distributed across the globe. We are fortunate to be led by an experienced leadership team, many of whom designed and engineered the digital advertising landscape as we know it today. The company secured $20M in Series B funding led by GV in Oct 2023 and is thrilled to be the recipient of a secondary round of $25M in Oct 2024. Scope3 has significant market traction with more than 70+ customers and is experiencing accelerated growth.

Scope3 is a fully remote company and largely asynchronous to provide flexible working hours and to operate globally, with concentrations in New York and Europe. At this time, we are hiring in Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Singapore, and the United States.

Engineering at Scope3

Our engineering team values a high-level understanding of our comprehensive technical ecosystem. We prioritize this technical familiarity in order to facilitate effective collaboration, cooperation, and productivity in a cross-functional environment. Our tech stack includes:

• Node.js for backend applications with Prisma ORM & PostgreSQL
• REST and GraphQL APIs
• React w/ Next.js for frontend applications
• Low latency + high throughput Golang API
• Big Query Data warehouse
• Airflow for batch orchestration
• Temporal for event orchestration
• Apache Beam (dataflow runner) for some batch jobs
• Most transformations are performed via SQL directly in Big Query.

The Role

We are excited to add a Lead Engineer to our Data Platform team, preferably based in EDT or European time zones. This individual contributor role will be responsible for building the underlying platform and shared tools to empower data engineers and data scientists. This person will also mentor earlier-career engineers, collaborate with product and design leads as needed, and participate in interviewing/scaling of the all-up engineering organization.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience building data platforms in high volume/scaling environments across distributed teams
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services
• Expertise in Python, SQL
• Big Query or equivalent data warehouse experience (Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)
• Airflow or equivalent in-house data platform experience (Prefect, Dagster, etc.)
• Experience with Clickhouse
• Demonstrated experience perpetuating an inclusive and collaborative working environment

Preference may be given to candidates with the following:

• Experience with Golang, Typescript
• Experience working in advertising technology, marketing, climate tech industries
• Experience working at globally distributed remote startups

Our Culture & Values

• Passion for the environment and climate work. We are a mission-driven company, and this is what motivates us to work hard and deliver outcomes for our customers.
• Clear and empathetic communication, especially while working asynchronously. We have always been a global, remote-first company and we collaborate using Notion, Miro, Slack, Loom, and other tools.
• We celebrate healthy conflict in the workplace; we focus on the solutions and we move on quickly.
• The ability and accountability to deliver what we promise. We do what we say we will do, and we don’t make promises we can’t keep.
• Experience driving systemic change. Our mission is to decarbonize advertising and this requires a holistic approach to re-imagining and inspiring an industry movement at a global scale.

A Note To Applicants

We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.