Senior Fullstack TypeScript Engineer

Rocket Lab; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Fullstack TypeScript Engineer to join their London team. In this impactful role, you'll develop systems that integrate with external customers and create intuitive interfaces for risk analysis of corporate assets. An exciting opportunity to contribute to climate change solutions while advancing your career.

Benefits

Monthly training & conference budget (£1,000 per year)

Pension contribution scheme

Flexible hours and hybrid working

Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript for both frontend and backend development.
• Experience with modern frontend development practices and testing frameworks.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and frontend-backend integration.

Responsibilities

• Build responsive and intuitive user interfaces using TypeScript.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and services in TypeScript.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design systems.

Skills

TypeScript

REST APIs

Responsive design

Cross-browser compatibility

Tools

React

NextJS

PostgreSQL

TailwindCSS

AWS

Job description

About us

Climate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class investors. We’re a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.

Demand for Climate X is growing fast, and we need to build our team! You’ll be at the front of a nascent industry, working as part of a fantastic and diverse team, doing things that you can be proud of. We’re excited to have the opportunity to speak with you during this process.

Our mission

To deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.

What we do

• We’re helping the world become more resilient to the impacts of physical climate risks (including floods, fires, storms and more). In doing so, we help drive positive global impact aligned to many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
• Our team builds cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science (incorporating climate projections, remote sensing data) and translates that into financial impacts (to the value of assets or business disruption linked to failure of critical infrastructure) that our customers in the financial services industry use to identify, manage and mitigate those risks.
• Climate X’s customers include the world’s largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies including CBRE, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money and Federated Hermes, as well as a partnership ecosystem that includes Deloitte, Capgemini and AWS. Combined, they manage over $6.5 trillion of assets.
• Customer’s choose us thanks to our ecosystem of products that help solve real human problems, and drive tangible business benefits to our customers. They love our customer-centric mindset, as well as our pace of innovation in the market.

The impact you’ll own

As a Senior Fullstack TypeScript Engineer in our Carta pod, you will work on systems that integrate with external customers and other internal systems to orchestrate the discovery and risk analysis of company asset datasets. You’ll build intuitive interfaces that enable our clients to efficiently map and analyze company assets while working on modeling the corporate network and their asset portfolios. You’ll create seamless integrations between frontend and backend services, ensuring high performance and reliability throughout the application stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Frontend Development:
  • Build responsive and intuitive user interfaces using TypeScript
  • Implement complex data visualizations and interactive features
  • Optimize application performance and loading times
  • Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsive design
  • Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement design systems
• Backend Integration:
  • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and services in TypeScript
  • Build robust workflows that orchestrate end-to-end business processes
  • Create efficient database schemas and queries
  • Model corporate networks and asset portfolios
  • Ensure proper error handling and service reliability

Essential Skills

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript for both frontend and backend development
• Experience with modern frontend development practices and testing frameworks
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and frontend-backend integration
• Experience with automated testing and test-driven development
• Knowledge of responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility

Desirable Skills

• Experience with React and NextJS
• Experience with TailwindCSS
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience with Temporal and orchestration-based workflows
• Experience with Python for supporting tools and applications
• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS)
• Understanding of CI/CD principles
• Experience with data visualization libraries

Benefits

Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change

Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)

6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews

Pension contribution scheme

Flexible hours and hybrid working (3 days/week in office; core hours 10am-4pm)

Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva

25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, annual 3-day Christmas-closure, and half day on your birthday (36.5 days total!)

Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out

A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office

Cycle to work scheme via gogeta

Enhanced maternity and paternity

Pawternity

Dog friendly office (official residence of Alfie, Chief Mischief Officer)

Equal Opportunities

Climate X are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds