Software Engineer - Market Intelligence

The role

You will build and operate production data systems, internal products, and AI-powered workflows. You will ingest and structure climate-market data to create a market-intelligence foundation for Climate Strategists, Sales, and Marketing teams.

What you will do

• Design and operate systems that ingest, structure, enrich, and serve information about companies, carbon markets, registries, policies, suppliers, buyers, and climate commitments.
• Ingest and model messy external data from APIs, websites, registries, PDFs, spreadsheets, and other sources.
• Build schemas, entity-resolution workflows, validation checks, provenance, freshness tracking, confidence signals, monitoring, and documentation.
• Develop retrieval systems, MCP tools, agents, and internal applications to help teams discover and act on market intelligence.
• Build APIs, internal tools, lightweight interfaces, reports, and workflow integrations.
• Move software from prototype to production.
• Own medium-sized projects from ambiguous user need to design, implementation, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience
• Shipped and maintained production software or data systems
• Strong software engineer in at least one of Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript
• Solid SQL, API, and cloud-infrastructure experience
• Worked with data ingestion, ETL/ELT, web scraping, data modeling, entity resolution, or external API integrations
• Understand data trustworthiness including testing, monitoring, versioning, documentation, validation, and provenance
• Built or operated AI- or LLM-powered systems involving retrieval, tool calling, agents, workflow orchestration, or human-in-the-loop review
• Comfortable moving between backend services, data pipelines, internal tools, and lightweight user interfaces
• Can move from an ambiguous user need to a working prototype and then to production-grade systems
• Good systems instincts regarding dependencies, reusable components, observability, and maintainability
• Want to work directly with Climate Strategists and commercial users

Nice to have

• Experience with Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Zapier, n8n, BigQuery, dbt, enrichment platforms, climate markets, carbon markets, sustainability data, energy, finance, or research

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Onsite culture in San Francisco with annual global offsites
• Unlimited vacation
• Generous parental leave
• Monthly wellness stipend (mental and physical)

Before you apply

• Offer may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check

About the company

Patch exists to put the planet back in balance by scaling unified climate action through software, market infrastructure, and culture-driven execution. The platform curates environmental datasets to help companies set and meet climate goals.