Backend Engineer

About Normative
At Normative we are creating the norm for carbon accounting by providing intelligence to companies to reduce their climate footprint. We translate financial data into tangible carbon insights enabling companies to understand and reduce their carbon emission. What we do has a real positive impact on the climate. You can too!

Our Tech team constantly improves on the world’s first emissions accounting engine. Every improvement we make directly contributes to helping companies reach net zero emissions.

The Role
You’ll be joining our engineering team as a Backend Engineer to further our company mission to stand up to climate change. Together with your teammates, you will design, create and improve our backend systems, which today are based primarily on:

- Node.js using Typescript with the Express.js and Nest.js frameworks for our services which support our frontend

- Python for our data pipelines



The Team
Our core values and the culture we aim for:

- Stay mission-driven and data-informed

- Contribute to developing a team based on trust, transparency, and respect

- Strive for individual growth and team performance

- See feedback as a tool for improvement - we learn from our efforts; both successes and mistakes.

- Value continuous improvements over static best practices



What you will do:
- Together with other engineers accurately transform business needs into technical requirements

- Make sure you understand not only what should be done but also why this should be done

- Optimize the journey from the technical perspective for efficient delivery and keep in mind future features, scalability, and maintenance

- Contribute to quality, and engage in improving engineering practices and processes together with your team

- Perform code review and initiate discussions to find the best technical approaches

- Share your knowledge, and learn together with your teammates



To be successful, we believe you:
- Want to be a part of the team working against climate change

- Have background in engineering microservice backend systems

- Experience with Node.js and Typescript

- Aim to ship fast, be value driven and understand importance of creating/sustaining feedback loops the stakeholders



We also believe you enjoy working in an environment with typical challenges of a growing company, asking a lot of questions and learning new things. At Normative we believe that collaboration with teammates is essential and you’ll thrive if you like to explain and discuss technical approaches with other engineers.

At Normative you will work in a fast paced environment with driven and skilled people. We work with a focus of One Planet - One Team - One goal and strive towards being an employer where you have fun, develop and grow while actually working towards solving the world's biggest challenge.

Location:
We operate with a hybrid remote model with an office in Stockholm. This means you can be based remotely within Sweden or Denmark, but we do want to meet regularly/monthly and be able to do that in a climate-friendly way.

The process:

We adopt a continuous selection process, so make sure to apply with your CV as soon as possible! Normative handles sensitive financial data and we will therefore conduct a background check before signing any candidate.

We welcome diversity with open arms and want to see candidates from different backgrounds and experiences.