Chief Technical Officer (CTO)

Salary DKK 10,000 - DKK 45,000
Equity To be negotiated

RenSti (soon to be Climaider - as in Climate Aider) help people understand how much carbon they emit and then remove or avoid just as much by financing climate projects in developing nations. You take a test answering questions like “How much meat do you eat” “Do you have a car” etc and get your carbon footrprint. You then offset that footprint by financing projects like tree planting in Uganda, renewable energy in China or a range of other options.


What’s happening now is, that we’re building an app that will be your companion and guide on how to live a climate friendly life.

Big things are coming for Climaider and we want you to be part of it.

In our first 17 months we’ve grown from 0 DKK to +1.000.000DKK yearly revenue, more than 1000 paying members and 20+ corporate partnerships. We’ve won several awards and grants and have been featured in most danish media including a frontpage at the biggest newspaper Politiken.

All of this has been bootstrapping, but we’ve now received some soft funding and are looking to raise our first round and start aggressively scaling. We’re a young team filled with passion and energy, who work hard and treat each other more like family than like colleagues.


What are we building

We’re building a native app for iOS and Android, which will be your one-stop solution for how to live a climate friendly life. Tailor made challenges based on your personal consumption will guide you on how to easily and effectively change your consumption gradually. This will both be “try a vegetarian day” but also “sign this petition”.

We want to make it as easy as possible for the average person to make a change. We will keep users engaged by gamifying their journey and make the right choice the easy choice by implementing solutions like “one-click change electricity provider”.

In this way we offer what we believe to be the most effective toolkit: Understand and offset your current emissions, reduce your future emissions and push for systemic change.

Our goal is to have as big an impact on global warming as possible. We want to encourage and support people instead of overloading them with messages of how bad everything is going.


Tech Setup:

Our B2C app is react native and redux, with a firebase backend (noSQL). This will be your primary task at least in the beginning.

Our web is react.js with a node.js backend and an express API on heroku. On our end we also utilize a bit of Python for automation of certain tasks.


Tasks

We need someone who is ready to wear many hats. Excellent developers skills is of course a must, as you will very much be the technical leader in the beginning. But timeboxing, planning and managing you junior devs will be just as important and perhaps even more important as you transition to more operational leadership in time as we scale.

As our holy grail is to make it easy for our users, we need a person who is very UX focused and very test driven. User tests and LEAN methodology will need to be at the core of the product.

We are a team with a very flat structure and a lot of independent thinking. We’re not looking for a code monkey, we’re looking for a partner in crime. That means we appreciate someone who wants to continually innovate and improve on the product and who can think strategically and in the long run.

Your tasks will be:

  • Executing and deploying on the app (code yourself)

  • Manage developers, graphic design and UX/Gamification

  • Execute. You need to plan projects and meet the deadlines.

  • Gather customer feedback/test results and iterate base upon these

  • Set the direction and make executive decisions.


Skills we’re looking for:

  • Up-to date coding skills (Most importantly node.js and noSQL, preferably also some React, Redux, and express)

  • Experience deploying apps

  • Planning and management skills

  • A knack for UX

  • Great mood and humor


What we can offer:

We’re a start-up right now set on a path to become the next big thing. We want to take you with us on that ride.

RenSti was founded by friends and this atmosphere still penetrates everything we do. The office is a place for hard work, but expect a lot of fun and a lot of social activities and brotherhood.

We also offer a fair salary + equity for the right person.

But more important than career, culture and money is the mission. At RenSti we want to fight climate change and if you can bring the right skills to the table you will be instrumental to taking our impact to a whole other level.

We have no preferences as to age, gender, color or what have you so please apply whomever you are. And if you see that you lack some of the skills listed as necessary but still think you’d be a great fit? Apply anyways and explain to us why you think that you’re a fit anyways - we might agree.

We look very much forward to hearing from you, so please - apply now!

For more information or questions please contact us at oliver@rensti.dk

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

See all 9 benefits

Working at
Climaider

Climaider is a rapidly growing subscription based carbon offset company, with 900+ paying members (November/2019).We build momentum to take climate action all around the world. With the ambition to become the most impactful company in stopping global warming, we make it simple for individuals and businesses to take action and fight for a sustainable future.- We calculate carbon footprints.- We offset emissions.- We engage our community to reduce emissions.- We spread the word and grow our community. Responsibility, transparency, inspiration - these are our core values. Because, we believe that little streams make great rivers. If many people take responsibility for their actions, then we can make a huge progress towards sustainability. Climaider exists for the sake of the globe, therefore our first priority is to maximise our positive impact. This is also reflected in our choice of primary KPI: the amount of CO2e emission reduction achieved. We promote sustainability by inspiring and engaging people.We are working in a flat organisational structure. This enables our employees to be creative, to take initiatives, and to make impact quickly. At Climaider your are welcome to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas and new processes. We are located in Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship’s startup incubator in Frederiksberg. We are part of CSE’s GoGrow interim batch. If you want to get right into the machinery of a just 1 year old startup working to make the world a greener place, then Climaideris for you.

Read more about Climaider

company gallery image