Product Engineer
Sylvera
Product
London, UK
Posted on Aug 19, 2025
What is Sylvera anyway? 👩👨🌳
Sylvera provides trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.
Purchasing carbon credits and CDR through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the carbon markets were plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera.
To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera Trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our data and software independently and accurately validates the impact of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emission whether they are up and running, or in development. Our data and tools allow users to optimise both the climate and economic performance of projects as well as understand the past and future of the market. With Sylvera businesses, governments and developers can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact.
Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance, and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organizations, universities, governments, and think tanks to develop and implement rigorous and holistic project assessment methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. We also partner with actors and institutions across the whole market to make data higher quality, more standard and more accessible. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 130+ employees globally with offices in London, New York, Belgrade, and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96 million from leading investors like Fidelity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners to date.
What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
We’re looking for a mission-driven product engineer to join as a founding member of a new venture within the company, helping us to build a new data-driven product from the ground up.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Building new products from scratch alongside a small but mighty team
- Working across disparate and unstructured data sources to provide clear and defensible data analysis and insights for clients
- Carry out research, extraction, ingestion and modelling of data to create early-stage data-driven products
- Utilising automation and tools to build for scale from day one
- Working with both internal and external stakeholders to drive client value, from sales to product and engineering
We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚
- Has exceptional quantitative analytical skills
- Has a minimum of 2-3 years of experience in a technical role
- Has experience working with data warehouses such as Snowflake or BigQuery and is proficient with SQL and python
- Is excited to build something from zero, and you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes
- You have experience in creating data-driven insights that have actually moved the needle for clients and changed outcomes
- Preferably has experience in financial services, consulting, engineering scale-up, or other analytical, fast-paced environments
- Shares our commitment to combating climate change
- Enjoys working independently and setting their own goals eager to learn and grow, with a proactive attitude toward tackling new challenges
- Is based in London and wants to be in the office at least 2 days a week
Please note that we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this position.
We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description
Benefits 💰
- Equity in a rapidly growing startup
- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance
- Unlimited annual leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Access to Mental Health support via Spill
- Office bar tab once a month
- Weekly drinks in the office
- Catered lunch once a month in office
- Monthly Deliveroo/equivalent allowance once a month
Location 🌍
London, Old Street. We foster hybrid working and require you to physically attend all 1-2-1, retros and divisional meetings in person.
Our Values 🙌
Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures.
Stay curious: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.
Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us.
Collaborate and challenge with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each others’ success and make the company stronger in the long-run.
Empower Customers: Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we’re serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact.
What if you’re a partial fit? 🌱
We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description.
Equal employment opportunity 🌈
Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.