Back-End Developper (Asset Impact) - Paris or Berlin
GRESB, France
Job Description
Asset Impact (AI) is an impact-driven climate start-up.
We are seeking a highly skilled Back-End Developer with a specialization in data delivery platforms to join the AI team. The ideal candidate will have experience creating data processing pipelines alongside data scientists and data delivery APIs alongside front end developers, all while having a passion for high quality data practices.
Responsibilities
You will develop and maintain our data ingestion and modelling platform. We have a PostgreSQL database using an ETL developed in Python and R by our data scientists. Collaborating with other team members, you will productionize the ETL process, identify and implement project requirements, write clean and well tested code, and encourage good coding practices across the team.
You will also help develop and maintain web applications and APIs alongside full stack developers. We have an AWS hosted web application using a modern serverless microservice architecture. The UI is developed in React and TypeScript.
Location and duration
- Ideally full-time employment. Freelance possible.
- Ideally Paris or Berlin in-person. Remote possible
Requirements
- Right to work in France or Germany.
Required skills
- A history utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB and Aurora to build scalable and fault-tolerant systems
- Strong experience programming with SQL, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience with at least one back-end programming language, preferably Python
- Experience with Agile
- History of designing data processing pipelines
- English as a working language
Preferred skills
- Experience creating an API for a data company (client security, data usage, etc.)
- Experience developing strong and flexible data QA processes
- Experience as a scrum master
- Clean code practices, including TDD, and CI/CD
- Experience with DBA tasks
- Mentoring of team members
- Interest in sustainability
Benefits
- A small dynamic international team of data scientists, analysts, sustainable finance specialists, and developers passionate about the climate transition.
- A rapidly growing organization with a lot of opportunities to get hands-on experience, make your voice heard and help shape our future.
- A mission that brings together technology and impact.
- Flexibility in terms of working hours and location.
- Offices in the centers of Paris and Berlin.
Application process
We are recruiting for this position on a rolling basis. Please send your CV and a cover letter via this link. We want motivated candidates no need to tick all the skills and experience boxes! Phone interviews will be organized with shortlisted candidates, followed by a case-study and a final interview with the leadership team.
Asset Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workspace.
Find out more at https://asset-impact.gresb.com/
About us
Asset Impact (AI) is an impact-driven climate start-up. Our vision is of a financial system that sets the global economy on a path to net zero emissions. We are a specialist provider of climate data and analytics used by financial institutions to achieve emissions reductions in the real economy. Our asset-based data and analytics cover the most carbon-intensive sectors of the global economy and map more than 250,000 physical assets across nine industry sectors linked to more than 60,000 listed and private companies to issued securities.
Our clients, mostly financial institutions, include large global organizations such as the 1,000+ financial institutions applying the PACTA tool, Barclays for its BlueTrackTM tool, ING for its Terra climate approach, and PwC for its Climate Excellence Tool.
AI was established in 2018 in Paris and works globally. We became part of GRESB, the leading ESG benchmark for real estate and infrastructure investments, in 2022 after spinning off from the 2 Investing Initiative, an innovative international think tank working to align financial markets with climate goals. We are expanding rapidly to support the growing needs of financial institutions as they embark on their journey to decarbonization.
Our clients access our data and analytics through subscription licensing. We currently deliver data via flat files, and we are developing an API.