Engineering · Remote-friendly (HQ in NYC)

About Alcove

Alcove is the reference layer for environmental and energy transition markets: one canonical record of each asset, run once and read the same way across the systems that connect to it.

Registries, standards bodies, project developers, governments, and financial institutions run on Alcove across the full life of an environmental asset, from project data and methodology through review, issuance, transfer, retirement, and reporting.

The opportunity

As an engineer here, you’ll work directly with founders, customers, and product to take systems from idea through architecture, implementation, and production — making technical decisions with long-term impact on real financial market infrastructure.

Much of our work involves systems where correctness matters: financial-style ledgers, permissions, auditability, document processing, distributed workflows, and integrations with external registries and financial institutions.

We’re a small, collaborative team with a high bar for quality and ownership. You’ll work alongside engineers from Google, Dropbox, and Asana who’ve built products used by millions and now enjoy tackling hard infrastructure problems in a fast-moving startup. Engineers here work directly with customers and teammates to uncover problems, shape solutions, and see them through to production.

What you'll do

• Own features end-to-end — from customer conversations and technical design through implementation, rollout, and iteration
• Design APIs, data models, and distributed systems that stay simple as the business grows more complex
• Make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs, balancing correctness, velocity, and long-term maintainability
• Write production code that's easy to understand, test, and evolve
• Set technical direction across multiple systems, not just your own projects
• Identify and drive cross-cutting initiatives — shared infrastructure, platform investments — that no single team owns
• Act as a technical escalation point other engineers route their hardest problems through
• Raise the bar for the org through architecture reviews, technical strategy, and mentoring — influencing how the team builds, not just what gets built
• Spot technical debt early and invest where it creates lasting leverage

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