Staff Full Stack Engineer

Far Coder; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive nationwide medical, dent

Remote-friendly culture

Work-from-home stipend

Annual company-wide retreats

Job summary

Carbon Direct is hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to help scale our AI-augmented software and support carbon/climate initiatives. This is a full-time, remote-friendly role with USA work location and collaboration with product, science, and business teams.

You will design and ship end-to-end features across front-end, back-end, and databases, while upholding enterprise-scale quality in a SOC 2/ISO 27001 environment.

Qualifications

• Significant full-stack engineering experience across frontend, backend, databases, and deployment.
• Experience building scalable systems and making tradeoffs in multi-layer architectures.
• Experience deploying AI-augmented software to production.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and ship viable solutions quickly.
• Strong collaboration with product, science, and business stakeholders.
• Experience in carbon, climate, or energy sectors is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy full-stack features end-to-end.
• Develop systems from the ground up and expand product surface area.
• Prototype quickly to test hypotheses and decide what to rework.
• Harden prototypes for enterprise-scale deployment.
• Make sound architectural decisions with limited precedent.
• Ship code regularly and ensure quality and reliability.
• Shape engineering practices and set technical direction as a senior voice.
• Support developer experience for AI contributors from non-engineering backgrounds.

Skills

Full-stack development

Front-end

Back-end

Databases

Deployment

Architectural design

AI-augmented software

Distributed systems

Tools

Rails

Prototyping

CI/CD

Job description

Company Overview

Carbon Direct is hiring a remote candidate for Staff Full Stack Engineer. This is a full time position. Work location: USA.

The role typically involves technologies such as Rails, Prototyping, Medical, Unity. Join us on the journey to get to net zero At Carbon Direct, we dedicate our scientific, software, and business expertise to empower organizations around the world to take climate action. Our Mission Enable organizations to reduce, remove, and utilize their emissions with carbon science We are a purpose-driven carbon management firm dedicated to helping organizations around the world reach their climate goals. We make carbon science accessible and actionable with our end-to-end platform. Global citizens with global impact Whether a scientist, developer, or carbon markets expert, we are united by our mission to take climate action now. We are experts in our fields and we act with confidence. Located across 4 countries and 10+ states in the U.S., we offer both remote-friendly work options and dynamic, in-person experiences with offices located in Seattle, WA and Oakland, CA. Diverse backgrounds bring diverse perspectives We recognize that teams with diverse backgrounds and different experiences are powerful. Bringing together a variety of perspectives only enhances how we can effectively address the climate crisis. Together, we are creating an environment where everyone is celebrated and anyone can succeed.

Overview

Carbon Direct is hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale the systems our customers rely on to overcome their carbon, climate strategy, and energy challenges. You'll work across the stack and company, partnering with product, science, and business teams to put AI-augmented software to work for our clients. You'll own the impact of what you ship across its full lifecycle, taking features through discovery, prototyping, launch, iteration, hardening, and scaled adoption. You'll build web applications, shipping both the customer-facing features and the internal capabilities our teams depend on. You'll refine vague requirements into working systems and ship them to production, operating at pace in an ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliant environment where access control, data protection, and auditability are considered from the first commit.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and deploy full-stack features end-to-end.
• Build systems from the ground up and grow the product surface area.
• Prototype quickly to test hypotheses, deciding what to rework and what to discard.
• Harden validated prototypes, taking them to enterprise-scale.
• Make sound architectural decisions with limited precedent.
• Ship code to production regularly, owning its quality and reliability.
• Shape engineering practices and technical direction as an early, senior voice.
• Support the developer experience for AI-empowered contributors from non-engineering backgrounds.

What we're looking for

• Significant professional experience as a full-stack engineer, with the depth to work confidently across front-end, back-end, databases, and deployment.
• A track record of building systems from scratch and operating them at scale, with the judgment to make sound tradeoffs in multi-layer distributed systems.
• An innovator who uses agentic engineering tools in their daily workflow and has deployed AI-augmented software systems to production.
• A self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, able to scope problems, and biased toward shipping viable solutions over waiting for perfect specs.
• Able to hit the ground running and contribute within days, not weeks.
• Strong product instincts and commercial awareness.
• You care about what you're building and why, not just how.
• A team player who collaborates effectively with design partners, product managers, scientists, and business stakeholders, translating their needs into technical solutions.
• Experience working in carbon, climate, or energy is a strong plus.
• Bonus points for Experience building or operating in a regulated environment (ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar).
• Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, or guardrails that let non-specialists contribute code safely.

Why Carbon Direct

You'll join a mission-driven company where you can apply your skills to one of the most consequential problems of our time, with the agency and autonomy to build systems that don't yet exist and the responsibility to see them through to production.

Salary

Salary Range $184,000-$225,000 a year

Benefits

• 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 and monthly work-from-home stipend *Please note that the benefits described apply to U.S.-based employees only.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Carbon Direct 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.

Skills required for this role include Rails, Prototyping, Medical, and related tools for day-to-day development.

Seniority level: Mid-level.