Full Stack Software Engineer

Carbon Direct; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible vacation

Parental leave 16 weeks

Remote-friendly culture

Home office stipend

Job summary

Relae, formerly Carbon Direct, is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering team. This fully remote role within the US focuses on building features across the stack, from services to user interfaces, with ownership of problems from day one.

You will work with geospatial, tabular, and vector data via data pipelines, ETL processes, and cross-functional collaboration to ship reliable software and continuously improve performance and quality.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering features across the full stack.
• Experience with ETL, data pipelines, and data stores.
• Proficiency in at least one server stack and one frontend framework.
• Comfort with cloud-hosted SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong communication and documentation habits.
• Genuine interest in climate, clean energy, and sustainability.
• Hands-on experience with AI or agentic development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features across the stack.
• Work with data pipelines to move and transform data.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to scope software and make tradeoffs.
• Write clean, tested code and review teammates' work.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and quality issues.
• Contribute to system design decisions as the team grows.
• Use AI tooling to speed up development where appropriate.

Skills

Full stack development

Data pipelines

Communication

Climate tech interest

AI tooling experience

Tools

BigQuery

Postgres

Snowflake

NoSQL databases

AWS

Job description

Relae (formerly Carbon Direct) helps organizations like Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and JPMorgan Chase make defensible, high-stakes decisions across energy strategy, decarbonization, environmental markets, and natural capital. Our teams combine scientific rigor with commercial and policy fluency to answer questions that matter, and we invest just as seriously in the people answering them, with a clear path for career growth, structured manager development, and real ownership of hard problems from day one.

The role

We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering team, fully remote within the US. You'll build and ship features across the stack, from the services and data layers behind them to the user-facing interfaces. This role suits someone who likes owning a problem end-to-end, who constantly innovates through applying emergent technologies in novel ways, and who is comfortable working close to real data.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and ship features across the stack
• Work with data pipelines and services that move, transform, and store geospatial, tabular, and vector data
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to scope software and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code, and review others' code with the same standard
• Help diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and quality issues as they come up
• Contribute to technical decisions about system design, tooling, and process as the team grows
• Use AI and agentic coding tools as part of your everyday workflow, and help the team find good ways to use them

What we're looking for

• Experience delivering and iterating on features across the stack
• Solid command of at least one modern server stack and one front-end framework
• Some exposure to data-intensive systems, such as ETL jobs, message queues, data pipelines, caching layers, workflow orchestration
• Comfort working with both cloud-hosted SQL Databases (BigQuery, Postgres, Snowflake etc.) and NoSQL Data Stores
• Strong communication skills and a habit of documenting your work so others can pick it up
• A genuine interest in climate, clean energy transition, and sustainability.
• Hands-on experience with AI or agentic development tools, and a clear sense of where they speed you up and where they don't

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with scientific, environmental, sustainability, and/or energy network/grid data
• Prior experience at an early- or growth-stage startup
• Evidence of side projects or hobby hacking: things you've built on your own time, whether that's a GitHub history, a personal tool, an open-source contribution, or something you built just to see if you could
• Contributions to open source projects

$143,000-$200,000

While we love our work, our lives aren’t defined by it. At Relae (formerly Carbon Direct), we offer a robust benefits package that considers the whole person, their partners, and their families – and we’re always looking to improve.

• Comprehensive nationwide medical, dental, and vision coverage. See a preview of our coverage here .
• Time off as needed: Flexible vacation policy and ten company-wide holidays, plus annual winter break between Christmas and New Year's
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental and family leave with no tenure requirement
• Remote-friendly work culture with annual company-wide retreats
• Reimbursement for your work-from-home setup

*These benefits apply to U.S.-based employees only. Employees outside of the U.S. receive benefits that vary by country. To learn more, contact [e-mail]

Equal Opportunity Employer

Diverse perspectives and experience enhance the way Relae selects and approaches the climate crisis, as well as the creativity and applicability of Relae's advisory and investment work.

Relae is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. We adhere rigorously to our equal employment opportunity policies in connection with all employment decisions, including hiring, compensation, and promotion.