Back-end and Database Developer

Role type: Full-time, permanent

Location: Hybrid – minimum 1 day per week in person in Cambridge

About Reclinker

Reclinker is a fast-growing climate-tech startup transforming cement recycling. We are preparing to launch our first product to market and are entering a critical phase of rapid scale-up in both production capacity and commercial traction.

We are looking for people who are committed to - and consistently demonstrate - our company values of:

· Intellectually curious: Keen to learn and try something new.

· Open and humble: Open to new ideas, without ego.

· Collaborative: Ask for help and support each other.

· Data-driven: Query, find and follow the numbers.

· Have a sense of fun: Enjoy each other's company and our journey together.

· Autonomous: Self-motivated, manage ambiguity and take the initiative.

The Role

We are hiring a back-end and database engineer with Linux administration experience who can help build and manage a bespoke toolchain for a complex and data intensive experimental and industrial production workflows. You will be responsible for building and deploying the pipeline going from production data and lab experiment results to structured data suitable for technical analysis. You will be supported by the team responsible for the UI/UX of user-facing tools.

This is a high responsibility job, as you will be tasked to design and build a back-end system architecture which will scale with our operations and enable us to fully use the wealth of information we generate. The system needs to be highly reliable, responsive, and secure. Your first project will be to orchestrate the safe migration of the existing data to the new back-end you will have designed and deployed.

You’ll report directly to the Chief Technology Officer (Cyrille Dunant), and help support the Chief Operations Officer (Poppy Brewer). You will work closely with the management team to support growth and anticipate back-end software and hardware/cloud infrastructure needs.

Key responsibilities:

Software architecture

· Choose and implement a robust database and client-server architecture allowing for structuring, safeguarding and access to data.

· Work with all stakeholders in the company to ensure their practical requirements are met

· Develop a suite of tools to allow efficient workflows from lab and production results to structured data

Software maintenance

· Deploy and maintain the system you will have designed

· Keep it current with the evolving needs of the company

· Develop roadmaps for future evolutions of the system with an eye to commercial valorisation

System management

· Ensure the system is running day-to-day

· Track issues and work with the CTO and COO to ensure user needs are met

Team & capability building

· You are expected to grow in your role and be at the heart of our IT department

· You are able to train new hires and users of the system

· Help your team operate in line with Reclinker’s values.

Requirements

We recognise that no candidate will meet every requirement. If this role excites you and you believe you can make a strong impact at Reclinker, we warmly encourage you to apply.

Qualifications:

· Degree in engineering, science, computing; or equivalent commercial or Free/Open Source Software experience.

· Relevant professional qualifications in database engineering, data engineering, back-end administration and deployment

· Qualifications in Linux system administration (desirable but not essential) or experience with Linux systems.

Knowledge and experience:

· Designing back-end systems, including backup management, permissions, concurrent access, networked API access

· Database deployment

· Data management: cleaning, revisions, structuring, querying, backups

· Developing/working in large projects

· SQL

· Linux administration, scripting

· C++, Rust knowledge desirable

· Experience with Qt desirable

· Working with diverse stakeholders

· Operating in scale-up, start-up, or high-growth environments

Skills and abilities:

· Strategic thinking

· Detail oriented

· Clear communicator, able to articulate compelling technical propositions.

· Analytical, data-driven, and collaborative

· Strong alignment with Reclinker’s values: intellectually curious, open, collaborative, data-driven, and autonomous.

Benefits:

o 33 days annual leave inclusive of UK bank holidays

o Private medical insurance (optional)

o Pension contribution (auto-enrolment, with scope to enhance)

o Flexible / hybrid working