Engineering · Remote-friendly (HQ in NYC)
The opportunity
Alcove is building the core market infrastructure for environmental assets — the systems that generate, issue, and trade carbon and other commodities at scale. We power NASDAQ's carbon registry today, and we're closing in on partnerships with some of the largest financial institutions in the world.
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
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of experience building production software and a track record of taking significant projects from idea to production. Years of experience matter less to us than demonstrated ownership and judgment — we're open to people outside this range who can show that track record.
- You're comfortable operating without detailed specs — given an ambiguous problem, you ask the right questions, identify the real constraints, and ship something technically sound and practical.