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About us

Climate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class investors. We're a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.

About us

Climate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class investors. We're a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.

Demand for Climate X is growing fast, and we need to build our team! You'll be at the front of a nascent industry, working as part of a fantastic and diverse team, doing things that you can be proud of. We're excited to have the opportunity to speak with you during this process.

Our mission

To deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.

What we do

• We're helping the world become more resilient to the impacts of physical climate risks (including floods, fires, storms and more). In doing so, we help drive positive global impact aligned to many of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).
• Our team builds cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science (incorporating climate projections, remote sensing data) and translates that into financial impacts (to the value of assets or business disruption linked to failure of critical infrastructure) that our customers in the financial services industry use to identify, manage and mitigate those risks.
• Climate X's customers include the world's largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies including CBRE, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money and Federated Hermes, as well as a partnership ecosystem that includes Deloitte, Capgemini and AWS. Combined, they manage over $6.5 trillion of assets.
• Customers choose us thanks to our ecosystem of products that help solve real human problems and drive tangible business benefits. They love our customer-centric mindset, as well as our pace of innovation in the market.
  
  

• Design, build, and optimise backend systems for large‑scale geospatial and climate data processing.
• Identify performance bottlenecks in raster data workflows and propose innovative, future‑proof solutions.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and scientists to integrate and scale scientific models in production.
• Build and maintain robust data pipelines in a cloud environment (AWS).
• Contribute to proof‑of‑concept and production projects with a focus on quality, scalability, and maintainability.
  
  

• Strong backend engineering skills in Python, with experience building scalable, performant data processing systems and RESTful APIs; ideally following a TDD approach.
• Hands‑on experience with geospatial data formats, with an emphasis on raster data, and relevant tooling (e.g., GDAL, QGIS, Rasterio, xarray, STAC).
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams (ML, Science, Engineering).
• Problem‑solving mindset with a passion for tackling large‑scale data and performance challenges.
  
  

• Understanding of scientific computing and data‑driven modelling workflows.
• Experience architecting cloud native solutions, particularly AWS.
• Proficiency with geospatial-optimised SQL databases (RDBMS for tabular data), such as PostgreSQL. Wider understanding of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience contributing to open‑source geospatial or scientific computing projects.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Climate Data and Analytics

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