Software Engineer

Your mission

Are you a software engineer passionate about making a difference? At ecoinvent, you’ll support the development of innovative software solutions that power our background data production and support the evolution of our platform for future product expansions. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in transforming how environmental data is produced, managed, and utilized, directly contributing to our goal of promoting sustainability and facilitating informed decision-making worldwide.

Your experience

• At least 4 years of experience in backend development, data engineering, or data system development.
• Educational background in computer science or comparable practical experience.
• Proficiency in Python, with demonstrated experience using data-processing libraries like Pandas.
• Experience building and maintaining data ingestion pipelines and ETL workflows would be an advantage.
• Comprehensive understanding of API design principles and a solid track record of implementing them effectively.
• Knowledgeable in SQL, encompassing the creation and updating of database schemas as well as enhancing database efficiency.
• Experienced in applying automated testing frameworks (such as pytest) to ensure code quality.
• Proficient use of git in a collaborative professional environment, including the use of CI/CD pipelines to automate code analysis, testing, and deployment processes.
• Any experience with a Graph DB would be a plus.

Your Responsibilities

• Actively participate in the design, development, and integration of core systems that form the future architecture of our services. This includes new products and internal tooling for collecting, processing, and delivering environmental data for life cycle assessments.
• Provide technical evaluation and guidance on product development, promoting product quality and usability while ensuring that non-functional aspects are met, including performance, scalability, observability, reliability, and security.
• Reliably ship new features and improvements to our products and tools while ensuring the development of a clean, maintainable, and well-documented code base.
• Contribute and follow processes for planning, automation, testing, and deployment.
• Contribute to an effective agile practice across the business, leading by example in embracing agile methodologies, fostering collaboration, and promoting continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate brings strong critical thinking skills and a problem-solving attitude. You are proactive, structured, and organized, with mathematical aptitude and sound judgment. You are enthusiastic about learning and pushing for innovation. You will work with collaborators of mixed backgrounds, so good interpersonal skills, effective communication skills, and a can-do attitude are essential.

Why ecoinvent?

As a fast-growing team based in Zürich with over twenty nationalities, we embrace diversity and promote a collaborative and adventurous mindset. We are committed to building an inspiring work culture that nurtures creative thinking, transparency, and reliability.

Our benefits include flexible and hybrid work, employee professional growth plans, and our most vital asset: our community. We value transparency, flexibility, and a diverse working environment that encourages learning and continuous improvement. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. Join us and make an impact.

Our Mission

ecoinvent is an internationally active, mission-driven organization devoted to supporting high-quality, science-based environmental assessments. Its activities include publishing and maintaining the ecoinvent database—a comprehensive life cycle inventory database that provides reliable and transparent information on the environmental impacts of various products and services. It is used by companies, researchers, and policymakers to analyze the environmental impacts of their operations and make informed decisions.

Interested in this unique opportunity?

• Please note that immigration sponsorship is not possible for this role.