Our Mission

The world’s rate of decarbonisation needs to be 10x faster. The largest, most complex organisations contribute an outsized amount to the problem but lack the trustworthy, decision-grade data they need to reduce their environmental impact (and, while very important, decoding how to comply with ever-increasing reporting standards takes precious time away from sustainability leaders who need to be driving change in their organisations).

Minimum solves this challenge by structuring and unifying the world’s environmental data. We are the Environmental Data Layer which large, complex businesses use to transform their existing data into high-quality, high-trust environmental data at scale. Unlike others in the space, we’re ruthlessly focused on solving data acquisition, processing, and calculation challenges.

Where we’re up to

• We’re a late seed-stage business backed by top-tier investors, including NEA (unannounced), Lakestar (unannounced), Octopus Ventures, Y Combinator, and more.
• Our product is used by a range of large public and private companies, including Volkswagen, UK Power Networks, Games Workshop, Nasdaq (and many more) to streamline their data processes, meet stringent international reporting requirements, and gain valuable insights on how to decarbonise their business.
• Our team is passionate about evolving our product to the next level, ensuring we’re delivering the most value possible to customers as quickly as possible, and scaling up our sales & distribution engine as we serve more and more Enterprise customers.

The Opportunity

• This is an opportunity to contribute to shaping and building up a product and company that is genuinely changing the world and solving real problems for customers. Minimum’s platform is just one small part of solving the climate crisis, but we’re dedicated to driving enormous value through our slice of the overall solution.
• Carbon accounting has been estimated to be a $60B market opportunity. We believe that’s an underestimate. Organisations of all shapes and sizes across the globe are being forced to improve their carbon data to meet increasing reporting and decarbonisation requirements from governments, investors, and customers. Sustainability is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ for forward-thinking companies; it’s an absolutely essential compliance and commercial imperative for all businesses.
• Our market-leading product is actively delivering value to large Enterprise customers, but in the context of the full scope of what we want to achieve, our work has only just begun. There are opportunities to drive incredible amounts of customer value by doubling down further on what we’ve already built, solving even more pain points, and pursuing closely adjacent opportunities, such as integrating AI into data workflows or enabling automatic acquisition of energy data from the point of consumption.

The Role

As a Backend Engineer at Minimum, you’ll work alongside our engineering team to design, build, and maintain core backend systems. You’ll have significant ownership over feature development and plenty of opportunity to sharpen your skills, but with support from senior engineers. You will:

• Collaborate with Product, Sustainability Experts, and the broader Engineering team to build features that solve real customer problems
• Design and implement APIs, data models, and services that power the Minimum platform
• Help integrate third-party services and data sources
• Contribute to improving our deployment and monitoring processes to maintain a robust production environment
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, participating in code reviews to ensure quality across the team
• Investigate and resolve bugs, performance bottlenecks, and other production issues with a mindset of continuous improvement

About You

We’re looking for a mid-level engineer who is excited by our mission and eager to grow:

Must-have Skills:

• 3+ years of professional experience developing backend applications in Python
• Experience building and working with REST APIs
• Experience working with remote teams, including effective async and excellent written communication
• Comfortable working independently across the SDLC to deliver high-complexity features, while learning from senior engineers and domain experts along the way
• Strong desire to learn from senior engineers and domain experts
• An action-oriented mentality: proactively identifying problems, owning tasks end-to-end, and driving solutions to completion
• A solid technical background (e.g. Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or another scientific/mathematical field)

Nice-to-have Skills

• Familiarity with Django, Django REST Framework and/or Django ORM
• DevOps experience (AWS and/or GCP, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience working with data-heavy workloads (such as large datasets) or third-party integrations (e.g. auth providers, email services).
• Previous experience at an early-stage tech startup (especially if it was B2B SaaS)
• A passion for or previous exposure to Sustainability / Carbon footprinting concepts

We're looking for brilliant people. If your experience doesn't quite match all of the points above, but you feel you have a lot to offer the team, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation, Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity in the form of share options
• Private healthcare
• 25 days holiday + 3 days off between Christmas and New Year + 1 day off in the month of your birthday