Senior Software Engineer (Berlin, Germany)

Senior Software Engineer

Company Overview

About usWe are a young company, started by experienced founders and climate tech enthusiasts. After having worked on reducing carbon emissions over the past years, we believe it is about time to shift our focus to the next major challenge for humanity: Nature and Biodiversity.Businesses are holding a major key to reduce their impact on Nature and restore this most amazing and complex net of life.But you can only manage, what you measure. Therefore we made it our mission to make businesses impact on nature measurable and manageable. We provide insights about the ecological footprint like the exposure to water stress, deforestation and areas of high biodiversity importance among others and let them take the first step to reduce their impact on nature. Join our mission and become a Force of Nature!

Nala Earth is a nature & biodiversity management platform. We provide companies with data & tools to measure, improve, report their impacts and mitigate risks across biodiversity, land, deforestation, soils, water and pollution. Three main use cases for our platform are: 1) comply with regulations and report with leading frameworks, 2) identify and mitigate nature risks, 3) construct a nature strategy with targets.We've partnered with leading companies such as Volkswagen, Continental, BASF, Uniper, Intersport, MVV Energie, HiPP, Arla Foods, Knauf, mace, bemari & SB+CO.Make sure to check out our open jobs here: https://nala-earth.jobs.personio.com/ … Show more

Job Summary

Your RoleAre you passionate about sustainability and the natural world? Do you want to help make a difference in the way businesses interact with the environment? We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our mission-driven team in Berlin who will play a pivotal role in the development of our innovative platform that helps make nature the #1 stakeholder for businesses.Your missionAs a Senior Software Engineer at Nala Earth, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to build a comprehensive geospatial data platform. Your contributions will drive the fusion of vast datasets into a unified, robust foundation that serves as the backbone for how businesses understand and improve their impact on nature.While we value technical expertise, it's less important that you tick a certain number of boxes on a list of pre-defined technologies; rather your passion for sustainability and collaboration is paramount. You are driven by a mission to protect our planet and seek to work with like-minded individuals toward this common goal.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining critical aspects of our platform across the full software stack.
• Building efficient ETL pipelines, handling large-scale data processing and integrations.
• Designing and improving MCP interfaces that make our geospatial capabilities accessible to AI systems and external tools.
• Collaborating with our product and commercial teams to craft new features or generate insights.
• Identifying where your current skillset can best be used, and which skills you would like to pick up on the job.
• Contributing to strategic decisions that shape the future of our platform.
• Becoming a technical leader who takes ownership of large projects and initiatives.
• Independently driving complex features from initial architecture through to production deployment, making sound technical decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term platform sustainability.
• Mentoring and elevating the team around you, contributing your expertise to help others grow while fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Using your senior perspective to help shape our technical strategy and product direction, ensuring that every decision we make advances our mission of enabling businesses to make better decisions for the environment.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Passion for sustainability and the natural world.
• Experience building backend async runtimes in Rust.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures.
• Willingness to lead initiatives on the backend.
• Experience working with machine learning and large language models.
• Experience with, exposure to, or a plan to learn: Sveltekit and Typescript (frontend), D3 and MapLibre (dynamic data visualisation), Axum and the georust ecosystem (Rust-based backend), Postgres and AWS SQS (interfacing), Python tools such as Rasterio and Xarray (raster data), and GeoPandas, Polars, and Shapely (vectors), AWS (cloud infrastructure), Terraform and Terragrunt (cloud infrastructure management), ML frameworks and LLM APIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building MCP servers or working with geospatial embeddings.

Location

Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Remote: False

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

Recreation. Take advantage of your 26 days' holiday per year, regardless of location or local holidays. Plus: We give you an extra day off on your birthday!Flexibility. With our remote-first work culture, you can organize your life the way it suits you. Work on-site in our offices in Berlin or Zurich and from home - whatever suits you and your team.Team Weeks. We regularly meet in Berlin to discuss strategic topics and foster our growth as a team. We believe these gatherings are essential for nurturing an outstanding remote-first culture.Workation. Work up to 90 days per year remotely in other European countries.Equipment. We give you a fixed budget to equip your workspace at home.Learning. We create an environment that facilitates learning - expect a long-term development perspective in a growing organization.Retail Discounts. Get attractive discounts from sustainable brands through our partner platform.Fun. We like to celebrate our successes, preferably with the whole team. Therefore, you can look forward to various events and parties.