What is Sylvera anyway? ‍👩‍👨🌳

Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.

Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera.

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact.

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 150+ employees across the world with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date.

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻

We’re looking for an ambitious Engineering Manager to lead our App Factory, reporting directly to our CTO. You will play an essential role in providing leadership for the team building highly innovative apps from scratch, following discovery work on the customer side.

Specific responsibilities will include:

- Leading our cross-functional App Factory team. This team is our ‘app incubator’, where new ideas are built out from scratch and supported throughout the early stages of their life cycle, until they reach product market fit.

- Partnering closely with our Product team (Product Managers, Product Designers) to explore, define and implement new apps.

- Supercharging our velocity of producing new apps - removing blockers and bottlenecks to minimise the time between product ideas and prototypes.

- Facilitating the creation of a library of templates, setting the team up to be able to build from reusable components.

- Establishing and documenting clear engineering best practice and processes within a new team, balancing this against the rapid delivery of new product ideas.

- Mentoring and coaching our talented team of Front End and Back End engineers in conjunction with our Principal Engineering function.

We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚

- Can demonstrate extensive experience having built and implemented new products from scratch - working closely with Product teams to go from 0 to 1.

- Puts great user experience and customer-focus are the forefront of everything they do, and who has a background working with Product Designers, going from Figma to implementation.

- Embodies a ‘You build it you own it’ approach, with experience not just building out apps, but also ensuring these are reliable, secure, and performant.

- Is experienced with implementing an agile approach for rapid and iterative development, breaking down complex work and deliverables to drive incremental gains.

- Can demonstrate a strong delivery track record, with proven experience driving the strategic direction of a small agile team, whether in a Lead, or Engineering Manager capacity.