IN BOLD PRINT - Full Stack Software Engineer

About IN BOLD PRINT:

Our software platform helps small to midsize companies in the consumer goods space measure their carbon emissions to meet regulatory requirements and drive revenue growth. Think of IN BOLD PRINT as the ‘TurboTax’ of carbon accounting.

IN BOLD PRINT is a female-founded, venture-backed startup based in Chicago. We just completed another successful capital fundraise and are looking to grow our team as we launch into this next phase of rapid growth! With a round full of both institutional investors and strategic, corporate partners, we are set to move quickly and take the industry by storm.

About the Role:

IN BOLD PRINT is seeking a driven Full-Stack Software Engineer to own the next generation of our software platform’s development.

Our platform helps small to midsize companies in the consumer goods space measure their carbon emissions to meet regulatory requirements and drive revenue growth. Think of IN BOLD PRINT as the ‘TurboTax’ of carbon accounting. Our platform offers 1) a simple, guided interface that allows users to quickly and easily enter the right information about their business, 2) a powerful carbon emissions calculation engine that delivers accurate, share-able results, and 3) intelligent insights that give businesses the information they need to report and reduce their emissions.

In This Role, You Will:

• Work directly with our CTO to architect, design, and develop the next version of our software platform, focusing first on our customer portal, from the ground up
• Manage the entire software development lifecycle for new features, including service ownership, testing, CI/CD, troubleshooting, and support
• Create user-friendly software that allows users to easily interpret and provide necessary information
• Design front-end software with back-end data architecture in mind to facilitate auditable carbon emissions calculations and insights
• Initially, spend 90% of your time on front-end development, gradually increasing back-end work and determining your preferred balance as the team and roadmap evolve
• Apply best practices and modern technologies to develop a reusable code base that supports high modularity, extensibility, configurability, and maintainability
• Build a robust technical foundation within a cloud PaaS architecture, including CI/CD practices like automated testing and version control, for team use as we grow
• Provide technical direction and estimates for new features to guide the product roadmap
• Develop well-designed test cases and adhere to testing guidelines and best practices
• Identify and resolve technical debt and performance bottlenecks, improve code, and deploy enhancements to production
• Document your codebase with requirements, decisions made, future improvements, and any other necessary information to ensure others can easily pick up where you left off, maintaining flexibility for the entire team
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and innovations to enhance platform capabilities and functionality, integrating third-party services where necessary

Requirements

Your Technical Skills

• Proven experience in developing full-stack software solutions with a strong track record of delivering high-quality code independently and at scale
• Experienced as both an architect and hands-on developer for end-to-end solutions currently in production
• Comfortable being the primary technical resource and owner of an end-to-end solution
• Skilled at inferring technical requirements from product-focused requirements
• Passionate about writing high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Skilled with JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and React
• Proficient with languages like Python and SQL
• Strong understanding of relational database systems such as Snowflake or PostgreSQL
• Experience with CI/CD and Git
• Comfortable working with third-party APIs
• Familiar with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS

Your Soft Skills

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced startup environment
• Desire to plan for future growth opportunities that allow us to innovate and differentiate, while also maintaining a focus on practical and immediate needs
• Eagerness to mentor colleagues and promote knowledge-sharing by writing clear, accessible code and documentation that can be easily handed off, enabling personal growth and focus on multiple new company initiatives
• Willingness to jump on any task that takes priority as it comes up, while clearly communicating what work is being traded off as a result
• Ability to balance independent work with team collaboration
• Openness to receiving and giving feedback for mutual growth
• Passion for user-focused and innovative product development
• Ability to manage time and dynamic priorities across multiple product initiatives
• Ownership of mistakes and focus on solutions
• Initiative to recommend and develop innovative approaches to tasks
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly and effectively
• Understanding the perspectives of both users and the sales team to inform technical decisions
• Commitment to ongoing education and staying current with industry advances and best practices

Benefits

Why You’ll Love IN BOLD PRINT:

• You will have the opportunity to directly impact the company’s growth and success with your everyday work
• The fast-paced startup environment makes work exciting, challenging, and motivating
• Working in sustainability means that the work you do has a real impact on the world around you
• You control your career path. You can advance your career and determine your path as the business grows
• We offer competitive pay and opportunities for equity ownership in the company
• We’re a highly collaborative team - offering space for remote work paired with regular opportunities for in-person collaboration
• Our flexible PTO policy lets you take time for yourself