Backend Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Waterloo, San Francisco, New York City

Employment Type: FullTime

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.

The role

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to build, help teammates do their best work, and have fun doing it.

What you'll be doing

• 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

Who you are

• An A-player: low ego, curious, and serious about your craft

• You are outcome driven

• Work isn't in opposition to life for you - it's part of your life because you genuinely enjoy it

• You ship through obstacles — roadblocks are part of the problem to solve

• You move with urgency and close the week with visible impact

• You're relentlessly curious and treat truth-seeking as a discipline

• You believe iteration speed is quality - the way to build great things is to build fast and learn faster

• You show up for your teammates, in person. You unblock before being asked and never let someone stay stuck

• You own your work end-to-end - proactive about visibility, proud of your progress, and you over-communicate until everyone is fully aligned

What you bring

• 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

Our tech stack

• Infra: AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQS, CDK, GitHub, Retool

• Backend: Django REST/Ninja, Celery

• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS

• LLM: AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Claude

Logistics

• Work authorization: authorized to work in the US or Canada, and able to travel to both

• This is an in-person role based in Kitchener-Waterloo, New York, or San Francisco

What we offer

• 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