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