Frontend Engineer

Help us decarbonise the cement and concrete industry.

60.000 € - 85.000 € and VSOP equity

About alcemy

alcemy was founded to reduce the massive CO2 footprint of the cement and concrete industry. Concrete is humanity's second most used material by volume and is responsible for almost 9% of global CO2 emissions.

We can change this! We leverage machine learning to provide intelligent production control software to the concrete supply chain to improve efficiency and allow for low-carbon cement and concrete production. Our software is used 24/7 in cement and concrete plants to optimize production and reduce carbon emissions today.

The Opportunity

• You’ll join us as a software engineer in either our cement or concrete app team to develop our core products.
• Take co-ownership of our frontend codebase, make architectural decisions and ensure high software quality standards.
• Help us scale internationally by building new features and improving the performance and UX of the existing application.
• We’re a small start-up, so you’ll also have the opportunity to explore and work on other areas. For example one of our frontend engineers recently took the responsibility for moving our web app deployment over to Kubernetes.

You’d be a great fit if

• You care about climate change
• You are a strong React developer with ? 2 years of experience, ideally in developing and testing data-focused applications.
• Have experience with data visualization and understand how to display quantitative information clearly.

Would be awesome if

• You have experience in reliably deploying true E2E testing

We offer

• You can live and work remotely anywhere within the EU that's about a day of train ride away from Berlin.
  • We meet up every 9 weeks for team weeks in Berlin to work together in-person (expenses payed by alcemy)
• VSOP equity options vested equally over 4 years.
• 1500€/year & 3 days/quarter personal development budget
• Mac or Linux laptop of your choice
• 25 days of vacation
  • Additional company holidays between Christmas and New Years
  • An additional day of vacation for every 2 years at alcemy

Tech Stack

• We use React & Next.js for building our frontends. Everything is written in TypeScript. We use Blueprint.js as our component library and layout our application using TailwindCSS. Our RESTful API is integrated using RTK Query and any shared state is managed using Redux via Redux Toolkit.
• Python for everything in our backend. Our RESTful APIs are built with FastAPI with autogenerated Swagger UI documentation and OpenAPI schema.
• We store our data in PostgreSQL and our infrastructure runs on AWS using Kubernetes.

Working at alcemy

• We value transparency, and direct feedback and are always open to refactoring how we work together.
• Engineers take ownership of their features from implementation, testing through code reviews, and deployment.
• No engineer is on-call.
• We’ve been working hard to get a defined career progression framework in place, charting out both technical expert & management tracks.
• We are passionate about helping our customers and always approach them and each other in a supportive and appreciative way.
• Our team setup is hybrid which means we have an office space in Berlin but you can also work remotely. To ensure human connection we have a quarterly on-site team week. During those, we try to focus less on day2day work and more on including evening activities, goal setting, and strategy definition.

Within 1 month you will

• Complete our onboarding and get guided through our development and CI/CD process
• Clone your personal copy of our entire production tech stack in our AWS cloud, including frontend, backend, and the machine learning pipeline. You can poke and dismantle it at your own liking.
• You will inevitably learn a lot about cement production or the intricacies of concrete data.
• Deploy your first code to production.

Within 3 months you will

• Take co-ownership of the frontend of our web application
• Know your way around our frontend tech stack
• Implement and ship your first major feature

Within 6 months you will

• You have fully taken co-ownership of our web application and have become a valued member in determining the future of our application including:
  • responsibility for estimating the time and technical scope of new major features as well as their implementation
  • collaborating with our product owners and machine learning team on our roadmap
  • shaping our tech stack and how we work together as a tea

Hiring Process

Our hiring process is fully remote and we’ll communicate with you over email and video chat.

• 1:1 screening call with one of our engineers
• Complete a take-home task relevant to the actual work you’d be doing
• A team-fit interview (45 minutes) with 2 of your future team members
• A technical interview (90 minutes) with 2 of our engineers

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We also acknowledge how stressful interviews can be. Let us know if there is anything we can do to improve the process so you can demonstrate your skill set.

Note: We currently do not offer visa sponsorships, so you have to have a valid work visa for the EU.