Full Stack Software Engineer

Cleartrace is a leading energy and carbon accounting SaaS platform that brings unprecedented transparency, trust, and auditability to clean energy procurement and REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) management.

Our mission is simple but ambitious: deliver 24/7 carbon and energy intelligence so organizations can confidently track, verify, and optimize their clean energy usage.

Through partnerships across utilities, RECs registries, corporates, and energy producers, Cleartrace provides:

• High-fidelity, time-stamped emissions and energy data
• Automated REC management and reconciliation
• Granular carbon accounting for corporate ESG and compliance
• Real-time visibility into clean energy performance

Integrated MRV-grade reporting and audit trails

Across our website (clear trace.io) and our Linked In presence, one theme is constant: radical transparency in carbon and energy data, delivered through a best-in-class digital platform trusted by forward-thinking enterprises.

About the role

We are searching for a mid-level or senior Software Engineer who wants to work at the intersection of energy data, SaaS, and climate tech.

Experience in energy markets, utilities, carbon accounting, or direct REC management is a strong plus—but not required. What matters most is technical excellence, curiosity, ownership, and collaborative spirit.

As part of a remote-first engineering team, you will play a core role in building the future of energy and emissions intelligence. You will design, develop, and scale the systems that power Cleartrace’s platform used by utilities, Fortune 500 companies, energy buyers, and sustainability leaders.

What you'll do

• Build and enhance core features of Cleartrace’s energy and REC management platform
• Collaborate closely with Product, Data Engineering, and Design teams to deliver customer-centric solutions
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and data integrity
• Contribute to architectural decisions across our platform
• Work in a fast-paced environment where shipping value is celebrated
• Help shape engineering culture and mentor junior engineers (for senior candidates)

Qualifications / Who You Are

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer (mid-level) or 6+ years (senior)
• Skilled in modern frontend frameworks (Vue, React, or similar)
• Architect and implement backend solutions, including API development, database modeling, query optimization, and integration with internal and external services
• Comfortable owning features end-to-end—from design to deployment
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Strong understanding of relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL a plus)
• Thrive in a collaborative, remote-first culture
• Pragmatic, thoughtful, and able to balance speed with quality
• Motivated by solving meaningful real-world problems in the climate/energy space

Bonus Qualifications

• Prior knowledge of energy systems, CFE methodologies and GHG standards, or REC management (huge plus but not required)
• Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, deployment workflows
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)

Why Cleartrace

Cleartrace practices a 4-day workweek (Mon-Thurs) and is a remote-first company with a meritocratic yet deeply people-first culture . We operate with transparency, integrity, and humility—and we believe that great teams are built on respect, trust, and shared purpose.

• Remote-first environment across the U.S.
• Four day workweek so employees have 3 full days to recharge
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision
  , and other benefits like short-term disability, life insurance, 401k and more
• Flexible PTO (we trust you to take the time you need)
• Paid parental leave
• Collaborative, geographically dispersed team that truly acts as one
• Austin, TX office available for those who prefer hybrid or onsite collaboration
• A mission that matters —advancing real climate impact with real technology

If you’ve gotten to this point, we hope you’re feeling excited about the possibility of joining our team! Even if you don’t feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people that believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just candidates who check all the boxes.

Join Us

If you’re a builder who wants to make an impact—and you believe in transparent, high-integrity climate solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

The pay range for this role is:

110, USD per year (Remote (United States))