Design Engineer & Senior Engineer

Design Engineer & Senior Engineer

Full-Time 63000 - 77000 £ / year (est.) Home office (partial)
NatureMetrics

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Collaborate on innovative projects to make nature measurable and actionable at scale.
  • Company: Join a market-leading nature tech company dedicated to sustainability.
  • Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, and a comprehensive benefits package.
  • Other info: Be part of a diverse team that values growth, collaboration, and innovation.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact in the fight against climate change and biodiversity collapse.
  • Qualifications: Experience in full-stack development and scalable data processing is essential.

The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.

We encourage collaborative engineering practices rooted in Extreme Programming (XP) such as pair programming, making overlap with our UK-based engineers highly preferable (GMT+0 to GMT+2). We are a market-leading nature tech company on a mission to make nature measurable and actionable at scale. Our platform delivers vital insights on species, habitats, and nature-related risks, helping businesses across sectors - from mining and renewable to CGS and financial services - make smarter, more sustainable decisions.

We are looking for an experienced full-stack Product Engineer to join our collaboration-first product engineering team. You won't just be writing code; collaborating with domain experts across Engineering, Product, Data, Bioinformatics and Nature Strategy, you will translate complex requirements into seamless user experiences. You will help define and run experiments, practice rigorous iteration, and incrementally enhance our ability to build and evolve systems that store, compute and visualise geospatial and other nature-related datasets such as eDNA and bioacoustics.

You will drive foundational work across product and engineering, helping our teammates navigate various data engineering challenges, guiding technology choice and adoption of best practices. This includes designing and delivering scalable, cloud-based systems and leveraging AI to accelerate development. Contribute to the sustainable delivery of quality software. You will produce well-tested, maintainable code across infrastructure, backend and frontend — using Go or Python on the back-end and React and TypeScript on the front-end — balancing quality with impactful velocity, through both pair programming and peer-reviewed development.

You will help the team continually raise the bar through code review, open discussion, and by leading by example. When we move fast and keep scope lean, it's the scope that shrinks, rather than the quality. You will help define what success looks like for the features you ship, setting the right targets, alerts, and thresholds to catch problems before our customers do. You will participate in an on-call rotation to support issues as they arise, and actively work to reduce the repetitive, manual toil that slows the team down and limits our impact.

You'll do so through pair programming, code reviews, daily communication with your team, giving and receiving thoughtful feedback, and helping your teammates grow. You have a strong sense of what good engineering looks like and can articulate and coach that, helping the team build not just their technical skills, but their engineering instincts. You find purpose not only in your own growth but in stopping climate change and biodiversity collapse.

Experience with scalable data processing. You have led the design and implementation of concurrent, scalable and reproducible data workflows, are familiar with the challenges of data-intensive systems, and can advocate for best practices across pipelines and distributed compute. You may not be a geospatial expert, but you're comfortable discussing the differences between vector and raster data and applying these to the design of geospatial data pipelines and storage.

Through pairing, shared ownership, and genuine investment in your teammates' growth, we deliver better software, spread knowledge more effectively, and build a team where everyone can do their best work sustainably. You act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, bringing clarity to requirements and trade-offs, and helping everyone move in the same direction.

You are comfortable working across the full stack, from back-end data pipelines and APIs through to intuitive, responsive front-end interfaces. You go where the work is, not where your comfort zone is, and you care about the experience as much as the implementation.

Comfortable supporting production software. You have experience shipping to production, investigating and triaging issues in deployed code, and have opinions about making on-call an effective and positive experience. When you ship, you ship with confidence, delivering tangible value and keeping the team moving forward. You are interested in how customers use the platform and are willing to iterate rapidly based on feedback and usage data.

Our strength is in our diversity, and we look for individuals who bring something new to the team, whether it’s background, skill, or perspective. We recommend discussing this pathway with the Head of Data and Engineering and Lead Software Engineer during the interview.

Get up every morning knowing that you’re working to stop climate change and biodiversity collapse.

Competitive Salary

Flexible work arrangements

Opportunities for professional growth in a high-scaling tech environment.

Benefits package (for those UK-based, international benefits will vary) including salary sacrifice pension scheme prioritising sustainability; life assurance; Enhanced annual leave; Cycle to Work Scheme; enhanced family friendly policy.

At NatureMetrics diversity and inclusion are part of our DNA. It fuels our innovation and connects us to the communities we work with. Backed by ambitious investors, we're on a mission to make biodiversity measurable at scale to underpin global goals and accelerate finance into nature. NatureMetrics combines tech and AI to derive simple insights from the full complexity of nature on the ground.

Design Engineer & Senior Engineer employer: NatureMetrics

At NatureMetrics, we pride ourselves on being a mission-driven employer that champions biodiversity and sustainability. Our collaborative work culture fosters innovation and personal growth, offering flexible arrangements and a competitive benefits package, including a £250 L&D budget and enhanced family-friendly policies. Join us in making a meaningful impact while advancing your career in a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion.

NatureMetrics

Contact Details:

NatureMetrics Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Design Engineer & Senior Engineer

Full-Stack Development
Go
Python
React
TypeScript
Cloud-Based Systems Design
Data Processing