Software engineer, AI product

Watershed; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Watershed is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Sustainability AI Reporting Team in London. This role involves building AI tools to help companies manage sustainability data. You'll ship code from day one and work on exciting new product areas, needing strong Node.js and full-stack development skills.

The position is office-based four days a week, offering an opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in Node.js web development.
• Experience building customer-facing products from user needs.
• Excited to join a startup and ready to help evolve a growing engineering team.
• Strong full-stack development skills.

Responsibilities

• Ship code to production on day one.
• Prototype, develop and iterate on new product areas.
• Productionize and launch core technologies for AI features.
• Write performant, well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code.

Skills

Node.js web development

Full-stack development

AI tools development

Job description

About Watershed

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization.

We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.

Remote work is available for some roles, but most positions are office-based. We have headquarters in London with offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City. Remote/office requirements are noted in the job description.

The role

Software Engineer – Sustainability AI Reporting Team. Join a cross‑functional team building AI tools for companies to manage and report on sustainability progress. Leverage LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies to deliver features to our customers and help build the technical foundations for AI at Watershed.

Location: London HQ – 4 days a week in office.

In this role you will

• Ship code to production on day one.
• Prototype, develop and iterate on new product areas, giving customers powerful AI tools for information extraction and report generation.
• Productionize and launch core technologies to power AI features on top of operational sustainability data.
• Keep up with developments and state‑of‑the‑art AI, determining relevance to Watershed.
• Write performant, well‑crafted, tested, and maintainable code across our technical stack.

You might be a good fit if you have

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in Node.js web development.
• Experience building customer‑facing products from user needs.
• Excited to join a startup and ready to help evolve a growing engineering team.
• Strong full‑stack development skills.