Backend Engineer

About the role

Cambio is a software platform for real estate decarbonization. We help commercial real estate owners bring their portfolios to net-zero with an AI-driven sustainability, asset, and investment management platform. We're backed by Y Combinator, Google, and Stanford — and we're the fastest-growing startup in our category. We're looking for a Backend Engineer to build, help teammates do their best work, and have fun doing it. This is an in-person role based in Kitchener‑Waterloo, New York, or San Francisco, and requires authorization to work in the US or Canada.

Responsibilities

• Launch customer-facing features by building Django backend services
• Improve the customer experience through performance optimizations
• Improve the eng team's quality of life by committing to tech debt reduction
• Support and collaborate with your teammates

Qualifications

• Low ego, curious, and serious about your craft (A‑player mindset)
• Outcome‑driven, enjoys work as part of life
• Ships through obstacles, moves with urgency, closes the week with visible impact
• Relentlessly curious, treats truth‑seeking as a discipline
• Believes iteration speed is quality – build fast and learn faster
• Shows up for teammates, unblocks before being asked, never lets someone stay stuck
• Owns work end‑to‑end, proactive about visibility, over‑communicates until aligned
• Independent problem‑simplification skills
• Experienced in Python web development (Django; Ninja is a bonus)
• Solid grasp of computer science and algorithm fundamentals
• Exceptional research & debugging skills
• Understanding of technical trade‑offs and the YAGNI principle

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and startup equity
• Flexible time off
• $1,200 annual learning budget
• Catered lunch
• Best workstation in a beautiful office in Uptown Waterloo
• Office gym