Staff Full Stack Engineer

Carbon Direct; United States; Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Annual company-wide retreats

WFH stipend

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Carbon Direct is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to design, build, and scale systems that help clients tackle carbon, climate strategy, and energy challenges. You will work across the stack with product, science, and business teams to put AI-augmented software into production.

You’ll own features from discovery to launch, ship code regularly, and help define engineering direction in an ISO 27001/SOC 2 environment. Remote-friendly with in-person offices in Seattle and Oakland.

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience as a full-stack engineer across front-end, back-end, databases, and deployment.
• Track record of building systems from scratch and operating them at scale with sound tradeoffs.
• Experience deploying AI-augmented software in production environments.

Responsibilities

• 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 and decide what to keep or discard.
• Harden prototypes for enterprise-scale deployment.
• Make sound architectural decisions with limited precedent.
• Ship code to production regularly and ensure quality and reliability.
• Shape engineering practices and technical direction as an early senior voice.
• Support developer experience for AI-empowered contributors from non-engineering backgrounds.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Distributed systems

AI-augmented software

Problem scoping

Team collaboration

Job description

Join uson 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 Range

$184,000-$225,000 a year

Benefits

While we love our work, our lives aren’t defined by it. At 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.

Our U.S. benefits* include:

• 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. For our international employees, our benefits package varies by each country and its statutory requirements.

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.