Tech Lead - Renew Earth
About usAt renew, we’re a nature data and intelligence company on a mission to drive large‑scale nature recovery. Wecombine data, science, and technology to help enterprise clients value and restore nature — creatingmeasurable environmental and economic impact.We’re expanding our customer and internal platform team and are looking for an experienced, hands-onTech Lead who will take over day-to-day technical leadership as renew scales from an MVP into a durableproduct platform.
This role is for you if you want:
• High ownership + high impact on a mission-driven product with real users and real deliverypressure• 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 helpingothers level up fast• To thrive in ambiguity: you can make pragmatic tradeoffs and keep momentum without sacrificingcorrectness• To partner tightly with Product/Design/Science to turn complex nature + MRV (Monitoring, Reportingand 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, scientistsand 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 pragmaticstandards• Establish lightweight operating cadence: clear definitions of done, reliable releases, and strongengineering hygiene
• Improve platform foundations: performance, reliability, observability, security, and costawareness
This role provides the opportunity to become an early leader at a startup with significant growthpotential, 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, andpolish — 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 consistentexecution• Comfortable operating with incomplete requirements — you can turn ambiguity into a plan, thendeliver• A “builder-leader” mindset: you can write great code, but also make others better through feedbackand directionNice to have• Exposure to domains like climate / nature / MRV, supply chain, compliance, or other high-integritydata contexts• Experience establishing early-team foundations: CI/CD, environments, logging/metrics, incidenthygiene, 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
Apply Now
This role is for you if you want:
• High ownership + high impact on a mission-driven product with real users and real deliverypressure• 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 helpingothers level up fast• To thrive in ambiguity: you can make pragmatic tradeoffs and keep momentum without sacrificingcorrectness• To partner tightly with Product/Design/Science to turn complex nature + MRV (Monitoring, Reportingand 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, scientistsand 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 pragmaticstandards• Establish lightweight operating cadence: clear definitions of done, reliable releases, and strongengineering hygiene
• Improve platform foundations: performance, reliability, observability, security, and costawareness
This role provides the opportunity to become an early leader at a startup with significant growthpotential, 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, andpolish — 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 consistentexecution• Comfortable operating with incomplete requirements — you can turn ambiguity into a plan, thendeliver• A “builder-leader” mindset: you can write great code, but also make others better through feedbackand directionNice to have• Exposure to domains like climate / nature / MRV, supply chain, compliance, or other high-integritydata contexts• Experience establishing early-team foundations: CI/CD, environments, logging/metrics, incidenthygiene, 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
Apply Now