Staff engineer

London, United Kingdom Posted on 03/07/2025

Redshaw Advisors is an award-winning provider of insight,advisory and procurement services in relation to both mandatory and voluntaryenvironmental markets.

The insight and advisory business is primarily concernedwith helping companies, governments, and investors around the world tounderstand the current and prospective rules, business practices and trendswithin environmental markets as well as the price drivers of instruments tradedwithin these markets.

Witha diverse client set that includes universities, cement and aluminiummanufacturers, airlines, heat networks, chocolate manufacturers, paperproducers, refineries and oil rigs, Redshaw Advisors' Carbon Support Programme(CSP) provides major corporate clients in 17 countries including UK, Ireland,Continental Europe and North Africa regular market reports and financial riskassessments to help them navigate carbon market complexity. Our CSP makescarbon markets more efficient, accessible and trusted.

We are seeking an experienced, pragmatic Staff Engineer whois looking to take the next step, someone who is able to think strategicallybut still willing to roll up their sleeves and get into the detail, someone whois excited by the idea of taking a digital product from zero to one, buildingan online platform that delivers innovation and scalability in our insight andadvisory business, the Carbon Support Programme.

You will support the Chief Product Officer in defining theproduct strategy and pipeline, and be instrumental in delivering the productvision and creating a development team to bring our existing advisory productsonline in order to support our team and clients mitigate their carbon risk.

The Staff Engineer reports to the Chief Product Officer, andcollaborates closely with the Head of Research, Head of Sales and Head ofTrading, ensuring that cross-functional activity is aligned, commercially focusedand leads to revenue growth.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

In this role, you'll be building from scratch, with no oneelse's technical debt to deal with. Starting from an existing offline productwith an engaged, global user base, you are the player-coach who gets to take itfrom zero to one in an online environment you develop.

You'll help the CPO build a tech delivery team, you won'thave to deal with investors, and perhaps most importantly, you'll be in aposition to genuinely engage with and have an impact on perhaps the mostimportant carbon emissions reduction systems that humanity has at its disposal.If this sounds like you, come join the team!

Responsibilities

ProgrammingLanguages and Frameworks

Thedecision regarding which technology stack to use will be a primary requirementof this role in partnership with the CPO

Theexpectation is that choices will be justified based on both technical andnon-technical requirements, e.g. resource and skills availability

APIDesign & Documentation

Hands-onexperience in API design and development to integrate internal solutions withour own online platform and (potentially) other enterprise applications

Expertisein designing API documentation, using industry standard approaches such asOpenAPI, ensuring clear and understandable interfaces between internal systemsand external services

Cloudand Infrastructure

Hands-onexperience selecting, setting up and managing cloud platforms is a requirement

Asper languages and frameworks above, the choice of cloud platform will be madein partnership with the CPO, and will need to take both technical andnon-technical requirements into consideration

Aclear strategy for future scalability should be one of these requirements

DataManagement & Integration

Expertisein integrating APIs and data sources, ensuring smooth interaction betweenexternal tools, data sets and our internal services

Knowledgeof SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, PostgreSQL) such that we are able toselect the appropriate database for our needs now and in future

Operations& Support

Hands-onexperience with debugging tools and performance monitoring tools likePrometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch

Implementanalytics tools to track platform performance and user behaviour

Utilisedata-driven insights to optimise product features and drive user adoption

Security,Governance and Monitoring

In-depthknowledge of API security, encryption protocols, and OAuth for secure accesscontrol in enterprise environments

Experienceimplementing security best practices and compliance standards like GDPR or ISO27001

Experienceusing tools such as Datadog, New Relic to monitor KPIs, logs, and performancemetrics

ProductDevelopment and Lifecycle Management

Aprimary responsibility is to establish a development process from zero usingindustry best practices

Inconjunction with CPO, support development and delivery of feature specificationand overall strategic delivery roadmap, based on requirements delivered by theProduct and Research teams

Managethe end-to-end product development process, utilising internal and out-sourceddevelopment resource as required and available

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Qualifications and Skills

Bachelor's or Master's degree in ComputerScience, Data Science or a related field

Proven experience (5+ years) in SaaS and/or dataanalytics platform development and management

Track record of successfully launching andscaling digital products or platforms

Strong analytical skills with the ability totranslate market insights into actionable product strategies

Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion forsustainability and combating climate change

Additional Requirements

International experience and/or familiarity withglobal environmental markets preferred

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced SMEenvironment and be able to roll up your sleeves

Strategic thinker with a focus on drivinginnovation whilst utilising a data-driven approach and delivering businessimpact

Commitment to advancing environmentalsustainability through innovative product solutions

• Competitive compensation package
  
• Flexible/Hybridwork options
  
• Comprehensiveprivate healthcare package
  
• Mentalhealth and wellbeing support programmes