Tech Lead - Renew Earth
About us At renew, we’re a nature data and intelligence company on a mission to drive large‑scale nature recovery. We combine data, science, and technology to help enterprise clients value and restore nature — creating measurable environmental and economic impact. We’re expanding our customer and internal platform team and are looking for an experienced, hands-on Tech Lead who will take over day-to-day technical leadership as renew scales from an MVP into a durable product platform.
This role is for you if you want:
• High ownership + high impact on a mission-driven product with real users and real delivery pressure • To ship — not just plan. You’ll be a builder who also sets direction and standards • To lead a small team (starting with our first 2 engineers) by setting a high engineering bar and helping others level up fast • To thrive in ambiguity: you can make pragmatic tradeoffs and keep momentum without sacrificing correctness • To partner tightly with Product/Design/Science to turn complex nature + MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) workflows into simple, usable software
If you want a narrow role focused on meetings, tickets, and status updates, this is not the role for you!
What you will do • Own delivery for key product areas end-to-end: technical feasibility → technical design → execution → release → iteration • Stay hands-on and write code: you will be relied upon to ship critical parts of the stack yourself (especially early) • Provide day-to-day technical leadership by setting delivery pace and quality standards, providing technical mentorship, and unblocking engineers • Collaborate closely with other team members, including product managers, designers, scientists and senior stakeholders to deliver a scientifically robust and user-friendly products • Drive technical design and make the right tradeoffs across frontend, backend, and data workflows • Raise engineering quality through code reviews, patterns, testing discipline, and pragmatic standards • Establish lightweight operating cadence: clear definitions of done, reliable releases, and strong engineering hygiene
• Improve platform foundations: performance, reliability, observability, security, and cost awareness
This role provides the opportunity to become an early leader at a startup with significant growth potential, and expectation that the scope of the role will increase as renew expands
What we are looking for • 7–10+ years building and shipping production software in fast-moving product environments • Exceptional full-stack fundamentals: API design, data modeling, UI architecture, performance, debugging, and reliability - Expert with TypeScript/Node backend systems
- Experience with React + TypeScript on the frontend
- Strong Postgres skills; experience with geospatial/mapping concepts is a plus • Proven ownership: you’ve led meaningful projects end-to-end and shipped to production repeatedly • Strong product sense and a high bar for UI/UX quality: you care about usability, accessibility, and polish — and you coach others to do the same
• Experience building data-heavy B2B SaaS: dashboards, workflows, permissions, auditability, internal tooling
• Experience leading a small team with clear communication, good judgment, and consistent execution • Comfortable operating with incomplete requirements — you can turn ambiguity into a plan, then deliver • A “builder-leader” mindset: you can write great code, but also make others better through feedback and direction Nice to have • Exposure to domains like climate / nature / MRV, supply chain, compliance, or other high-integrity data contexts • Experience establishing early-team foundations: CI/CD, environments, logging/metrics, incident hygiene, release cadence
Role details • Full‑time permanent position, starting as soon as possible • Remote – based in European or UK time zones • Competitive compensation and eligibility for equity participation • Opportunity to help architect the backend and data foundations of a fast‑growing climate startup
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