Senior Backend Engineer

Climate Policy Radar is an independent non-profit building open, credible data infrastructure and AI-powered tools for climate, nature, and development action. They are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Application team, where the primary responsibilities include creating new features, improving existing systems, and designing scalable solutions for their growing user base.

Responsibilities:

• Helping us grow from a database to a data aggregator by improving our data import capabilities, including bringing in a new CMS
• Laying the groundwork to make our core product multilingual in 2027 (French, Spanish & Portuguese), to open up information across linguistic boundaries
• Improving the search engine in our core product to help people find what they are looking for
• Incorporating GenAI and RAG into our core product to enable move us from search engine to evidence synthesis (e.g., summaries, Q&A, comparisons)
• Sharing our data and services externally (e.g., via APIs) so that others can build upon our work