Job category: Leadership / Management

ClimateTech CTO – Hands-On

Location: Fully Remote (ideally UK).
Salary: £75K + benefits & equity

Tech stack: Python, Django, React, AWS, PostgreSQL

Know the saying, “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”? What if instead of a wolf there was clothing? And for the sheep, just more piles of clothing?

There’s a literal clothing desert in Chile and billions of discarded items are incinerated each year, on top of most of the items we wear are made from plastic/polyester.

There’s nothing sheepish about the company we are working with, they are fiercely changing the fashion industry, enabling brands to identify a sustainable pathway for their supply chain, through transparency and valuable data insights.

By doing this, businesses improve their own practices and focus their future activity on suppliers taking real steps to cut emissions, improve the sourcing of materials, tackle modern slavery and more.

They are essentially building a platform, which grants their clients access to data that otherwise they wouldn’t be able to collate or translate into actionable points. Through this platform, they also improve data the companies already have by making it broader and easier to work with.

This is incredibly powerful in achieving buy-in from major brands, helping them establish which factories they should do more work with, and which they should either steer away from or increase pressure to change.

They use data from various sources including publicly available international trade and shipping data, data from certification bodies and public information orgs addressing issues like pollution or modern slavery and they’re always finding additional sources to interrogate and improve the quality of data used.

One of the co-founders has been acting as CTO and building their software and data platform with some support from contractors.  He’s from a more product-focused background and needs an expert software engineer to take over in terms of technical leadership, making decisions on tooling, infrastructure, scaling up and executing their plans.

The team is small and they’ve just raised money, primarily from one angel investor, with an aim to become self-sustaining in the next 12-18 months, so you’ll essentially become part of the founding team, contributing to their vision and defining their pathway to reach profitability.

This means you’ll help them hire additional people as they grow and increase their impact, enable the scaling of their platform to bring additional customers, grow the number of users and add new functionality in line with customer needs.

Tech-wise they use Python, Django and React. They’re hoping to find someone with good cloud experience, though they’re not picky on which platform you’ve used. And PostgreSQL and good data/pipeline experience would be handy to have, too, as they have lots of data coming in from different places.

If you’re up for tackling intersecting social and environmental issues in a role as a founding member and CTO, this could be the one for you! Feel free to email, call or hit apply!