At Klimate, we are devoted to accelerating the development and adoption of technologies that can help fight climate change by actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

We empower companies to compensate for unavoidable emissions through portfolios of carbon removal projects. Klimate’s portfolios aggregate and broker the best suppliers and projects ranging from forestry and soil sequestration to biochar and direct air capture.

We are looking for someone to head our technical development and be part of an ambitious start-up that strives to be the leading broker of carbon removal solutions. 

The challenge

The science is clear: We are emitting 50 Gigatons of CO2 every year, and we need to reduce that by at least 80%. Doing this still leaves 10 Gigatons of CO2 emitted annually, and we need to get all the way to zero. At Klimate, we’re working hard to solve this problem.

Trees are great, but we need many more solutions, if we are to get to zero by 2050. Currently, most of these are too expensive (and limited in capacity) for companies to use. We've developed a platform that combines different projects and methods, making carbon removal solutions available to all companies wanting to remove their unavoidable emissions.

We already have amazing suppliers and clients who are early adopters and true pioneers. To remove more carbon, we need to advance our product and integrations to match the highest technical standards. Our current system is based on .NET backend with angular FE. However, we are not married to a standard, so any full stack background can do.

Responsibilities

As our CTO, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our system in close collaboration with the management team. You will be an active part of developing our technical and product roadmap and overall technical strategy.

We expect that you are able to work hands on with development and setting the right strategic direction for tech.

Your tasks would include:

• Set the technical strategy and roadmap for development

• Building and maintaining our system (eg. Internal admin, public record (inventory), client dashboard)

• Lead our architecture, backend, frontend and dev-ops

• Lead QA in collaboration with our Head of Product

• Creating our architecture and our technical strategy

• Managing the external development team and building our in-house capabilities and team

• Build and test as much as possible while preparing for scaling

• Participate in developing our proprietary algorithms and database structure in collaboration with the analyst team

What skills are we looking for?

We strive to be the leading broker of carbon removal projects. You are enthusiastic about building a purpose-driven, ambitious, and sustainable company. We are looking for a technically sharp and strategically thinking individual who can drive Klimate’s technical profile.

We expect you to:

• Have relevant experience

• Strong technical skills and coding abilities

• Have a self-driven attitude with a desire to learn new things, grow your responsibility, and move projects forward with little or no guidance

• Be structured and able to multi-task across projects, set clear goals, and ensure that we are on track - either individually or as a team.

• Being able to work professionally in English, additional languages are a plus.

We would value any of the additional competencies:

• Experience from building a product from (almost) scratch in a startup or similar environment

• Experience building consumer facing products (eg. login, dashboard, checkout and payment) and/or inventories 

• Experience working in collaboration with the design team and the ability to transform concepts into developed products

• Experience from managing 1 or 2 employees - or a desire to do so eventually

• A “can-do” attitude with an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset. If you have hands-on experience building or scaling a business, this is definitely a plus!

• Bonus: A solid interest in climate change, net-zero, Science-based Targets, and the voluntary carbon market

What we offer:

• Competitive salary

• Responsibility for creating our technological strategy

• The chance to be part of a young, dynamic team in a growing company

• Flexible (work) hours and vacation

• Warrant program 

• Impact: We help remove carbon to avoid disastrous climate change

• Social arrangements and great colleagues

• All the free coffee and tea you can drink

You will be working directly with our top management and our Head of Product, Simon Lauwerier. If you have any questions regarding the post, just ask via this posting and we will get back to you

The process from here

1. If you think this sounds like something for you, we’d love to hear from you

2. You send us an application outlining why you are perfect for this job

3. We hold short introductory interviews with shortlisted candidates

4. Second interview round with the other co-founders

5. You go through an interview process with our board of directors including technical assessment

6. You meet the team over a breakfast to get a sense of how we are to hang around

7. You accept our offer and we start solving climate change together