Full Stack Developer

Job Purpose and Background

Are you passionate about securing the future of the planet by preventing catastrophic climate change? Do you want to apply your considerable creativity, energy, and digital expertise at the cutting edge of corporate climate action in one of the world’s fastest-growing sustainability initiatives?

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer. Joining the growing digital function within SBTi’s global operations team, you will collaborate closely with other teams to ensure that the SBTi technology infrastructure is well supported and service excellence is at the core of the organization.

About you

You have strong web architecture skills and enjoy building efficient, scalable, and robust back-end systems. You are highly structured and approach work in a strategic way in order to build, deploy, and maintain web infrastructure. You are comfortable working with external consultants and specialists and seek to find effective ways to partner to ensure your work is fully realized and easily maintained. You have deep satisfaction with what you create and are motivated by delivering the right solution to meet the needs of the business. You thrive in a collaborative environment where ideas, as well as values, are well communicated and shared respectively. English is the working language at SBTi and the ability to communicate at a business fluent level is needed.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day management of the SBTi website, working with key subject matter experts and content leads to implement regular updates to ensure content accuracy, relevance and transparency;
• Lead the continuous improvement of the website and digital platforms, including content and performance, in line with user needs and developing business priorities;
• Manage relationships with digital agencies to ensure maintenance of software and infrastructure, security, and optimal performance of the website and digital platforms;
• Develop a comprehensive migration strategy to move key elements of the current web page to a new web environment that is maintainable and fit for purpose;
• In collaboration with IT security, design a robust and secure web experience protecting critical back end data;
• In collaboration with data engineer, configure API calls between web back end and data applications to ensure the right information is passed to the web and prioritizes automation;
• Contributes to the development of technical architecture of SBTi data pipeline and display of public climate data;

Essential skills and experience

• Experience with modern web architecture / CMS systems (eg. Craft CMS);
• Can build web sites / applications using HTML, CSS, Python, java script, PHP or equivalent;
• Front end and back end experience with tools like React and JSON to handle tokens, cookies, etc. to facilitate security;
• Knowledge of maintenance, scaling, migrating and deploying code on different platforms like cloud, AWS, Heroku, Netlify etc.;
• Ability to work remotely and flexibly in a global environment with limited direct supervision;
• Familiarity with agile values and how to leverage agile to adapt to change and perform effectively under pressure, experience using Asana a plus;
• Strong written and oral communication skills, and advanced English level for non native speakers;

What we offer

• Competitive NGO salary;
• Working in one of the most successful and fastest-growing initiatives driving climate action;
• Exciting and challenging tasks in a dynamic, international, innovative, and motivated team;
• Training and development;
• Attractive holiday package;