Route2 is a rapidly growing, leading-edge business that helps its clients quantify the total impact and wider value their activities have on society and the natural environment.
For over 10 years, our award-winning framework (Value2Society™) has been successfully deployed with businesses, investors and governments as a consultative product, but in order to scale and enhance our offering we are transitioning to a SaaS platform.
The new platform will enable businesses and investors to quantify and evaluate over 600 impacts (from greenhouse gas emissions, to modern slavery, to corruption etc), and automatically generate Value2Society™ reports, analysis and insight.
The Route2 team is a tight-knit collection of hard-working, motivated and passionate individuals. Our economists, researchers and analysts have helped cement our reputation as an innovative and leading provider of sustainability advice; whilst our technical team have developed products for some of the most successful start-ups in London.
At Route2, we strive for a workplace in which everyone feels safe, heard and represented. We therefore encourage applications from everyone, especially individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: women, people of colour, LGBTQAI+, individuals with seen and/or unseen disabilities, of any age or family status.
Current Opportunities
Senior Front End Engineer
We're looking for an ambitious, motivated and product-focused senior front-end developer who is also passionate about human rights, the environment and making a difference. Your role will be to develop the front end for our platform, to lead our frontend team, and to build out our design system alongside our extremely talented UI & UX designer. Your work will be central to our product and the role is expected to grow with the company.
The role is a server- and client-side front end development role with a significant product ownership and team development responsibility. You will build the interface to a product that our clients will use every day, including organisation management, complex data interfaces and reporting.
You'll be joining a tight-knit team consisting of our CTO, three software engineers, a UI/UX designer and QA and product support. Whilst your primary role will be delivering high-quality, well-tested and performant javascript, you'll also be expected to provide frontend leadership and mentorship.
About you:
Requirements:
Ability and experience to evaluate long-term impacts of front end design decisions
5+ years of full stack or front-end engineering experience
Deep knowledge of and extensive practical experience in web app development including HTML, CSS, React, NextJS and Typescript
A strong desire to learn new things, solve problems and leave everything you encounter better than you found it a detail-oriented focus, coupled with a product shipping mindset
Practical experience with Git
Nice to Haves:
Experience with AWS including ECS and RDS
Experience with Jest and/or React Testing Library and/or an opinion on testing frameworks and methodologies
Experience with Python and FastAPI
Experience with Figma and/or similar design tools
Experience with data visualisation
Experience with container-based architectures (docker, k8s etc)
A maths or computer science degree from a top-tier university
Benefits:
Salary of £60-85k dependent on experience
Generous equity options
Generous hardware budget on joining flexible hours with the opportunity to mix working in our beautiful riverside office and WFH
A wonderful team that make coming to work a joy
A mission that will get you out of bed every morning knowing you're doing good in the world
To apply, please email a cover letter and CV to info@route2.com
Back End Engineer
We're looking for an ambitious, motivated, intelligent and pragmatic developer who is also passionate about human rights, the environment and making a difference.
Your role will be to develop and own our data integrations system. Your work will be central to our product and the role is expected to grow with the company. The role is a cross-functional back-end role with a significant internal systems ownership responsibility and some client-facing development opportunities, should you want them. You will build data transformation systems and integration modules and manage finance-grade security and authentication.
You'll be working closely with our CTO, and with the rest of our development and QA/testing team.
Whilst we run a professional team with plenty of support, we’re a small company and you'll be building production code in use across our clients, so you'll be responsible for deploying and maintaining your own work, ensuring complete test coverage and optimising code performance as well as developing back-end features.
About you:
Requirements:
4+ years of full stack or back-end engineering experience
a strong desire to learn new things, solve problems and leave everything you encounter better than you found it
extensive practical experience with sql databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
extensive practical experience with Python
Nice to Haves:
experience with dbt
experience with airbyte or other ELT platforms/frameworks
experience with AWS including EC2, Lambda, RDS
experience with container-based architectures (docker, k8s etc)
experience with testing frameworks and methodologies
a maths or computer science degree from a top-tier university
Benefits:
Salary of £50-75k dependent on experience
Generous equity options
Generous hardware budget on joining flexible hours with the opportunity to mix working in our beautiful riverside office and WFH
A wonderful team that make coming to work a joy
A mission that will get you out of bed every morning knowing you're doing good in the world
To apply, please email a cover letter and CV to info@route2.com
Sustainability Research Analyst
As a small but growing business, we offer individuals the opportunity and responsibility to undertake a diverse range of sustainability oriented research work – from ecosystem services to human rights to corporate governance. Our Research Team builds the evidence base underpinning all client services and the Value2SocietyTM online platform.
About you:
Educated to degree (or higher degree) level in a relevant discipline (e.g. economics, natural sciences etc.)
Comfortable presenting research findings and insights, utilising engaging methods and tools
Knowledge of economic valuation of non-market goods / services is an advantage
Experience of statistical analysis of data is an advantage (e.g. Stata, R etc.)
Passionate about sustainability and how businesses can contribute to its global achievement
Key Responsibilities:
Identifying, collating and utilising best available information resources to provide new insight in response to priority research questions arising as part of client engagement
Developing new innovative, insightful and consistent approaches to evaluate new impacts based on real research
Development and implementation of research standards that are consistently applied to ensure quality and accuracy in all research outputs
Structuring and maintenance of all information to provide business wide access to research papers, references, documents and datasets
Challenging the research outputs in order to verify the validity of the information, and ensuring they are fit for purpose
Proactively identifying new areas of research to advance Route2’s knowledge and capabilities
Surfacing new research findings to aid external communications and business development
Contributing to business development and client deliveries as required
To apply, please email a cover letter and CV to info@route2.com