Full Stack Developer (1-Year Contract)
Canada's building sector produces nearly 18% of national emissions, and most of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are already standing today.
The ReCover Initiative Is Building The Digital Infrastructure Needed To Transform Those Buildings Through Deep Energy Retrofits At Scale. We Are Developing a Suite Of Data Platforms And Intelligent Tools That Help Building Owners, Governments, And Engineers
We are looking for a Full-Stack Developer who wants to help build the next generation of climate infrastructure software.
Responsibilities
Platform & Application Development
You are someone who enjoys building complex, data-driven applications.
You Likely Have
Tech Stack
Frontend
The ReCover Initiative was founded in 2020 with a mission to develop deep retrofit solutions that respond to the climate crisis at speed and scale. We achieve our mission through research and development, programs and services to building owners, and capacity-building activities for industry.
As the deep retrofit accelerator for Atlantic Canada, we are creating alliances to transform the building sector in Atlantic Canada.
We are funded by NRCAN, the Trottier Family Foundation, the Echo Foundation, the McConnell Foundation, and the Halifax Climate Investment, Innovation and Impact (HCi3) Fund.
Our headquarters is in Nova Scotia. We acknowledge that we are in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People.
Are you interested?
You'll help build technology that supports one of the most important climate transitions of our time.
At ReCover You Will
Position Details
The ReCover Initiative Is Building The Digital Infrastructure Needed To Transform Those Buildings Through Deep Energy Retrofits At Scale. We Are Developing a Suite Of Data Platforms And Intelligent Tools That Help Building Owners, Governments, And Engineers
- understand building characteristics at scale
- identify retrofit opportunities
- model retrofit costs and financial outcomes
- design panelized retrofit solutions
- accelerate net-zero building transitions
We are looking for a Full-Stack Developer who wants to help build the next generation of climate infrastructure software.
Responsibilities
Platform & Application Development
- Ongoing full-stack web application development and maintenance for ReCover's retrofit toolkits.
- Build user interfaces and dashboards for building characterization, retrofit analysis, and decision-support tools.
- Implement scalable backend services to manage building datasets, retrofit scenarios, and model outputs.
- Support development of multiple ReCover tools including:
- Building Intelligence / Identification tools
- Costing and financial analysis tools
- Panelization and retrofit design tools
- Portfolio-scale building analysis platforms
- Contribute to the development of ReCover's Evergreen SQL database, serving as the central repository for building archetypes, retrofit measures, and research datasets.
- Design APIs and services that allow ReCover's tools to interact with the data platform.
- Support ingestion and processing of datasets including:
- building geometry
- GIS data
- LiDAR datasets
- retrofit cost databases
- energy model outputs
- Work with cloud infrastructure (primarily Microsoft Azure) to deploy scalable applications.
- Implement secure data pipelines and services supporting large datasets and analytics workloads.
- Support containerization and deployment pipelines for development and production environments.
- Work closely with research partners and technical teams including universities and applied research labs.
- Translate research outputs into deployable software tools.
- Participate in agile development cycles, sprint planning, and product iteration.
You are someone who enjoys building complex, data-driven applications.
You Likely Have
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience
- strong frontend experience (React / modern JS frameworks)
- experience building APIs and backend services
- experience working with SQL databases
- Experience working with evolving product requirements
- cloud development experience using Microsoft Azure
Tech Stack
Frontend
- React / Next.js
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- Data visualization libraries
- Modern UI frameworks
- Node.js / Python / .NET
- API development
- Data processing pipelines
- SQL databases
- ETL pipelines
- Geospatial data integration
- Azure cloud services
- Docker / containerization
- CI/CD pipelines
- Git-based workflows
The ReCover Initiative was founded in 2020 with a mission to develop deep retrofit solutions that respond to the climate crisis at speed and scale. We achieve our mission through research and development, programs and services to building owners, and capacity-building activities for industry.
As the deep retrofit accelerator for Atlantic Canada, we are creating alliances to transform the building sector in Atlantic Canada.
We are funded by NRCAN, the Trottier Family Foundation, the Echo Foundation, the McConnell Foundation, and the Halifax Climate Investment, Innovation and Impact (HCi3) Fund.
Our headquarters is in Nova Scotia. We acknowledge that we are in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People.
Are you interested?
You'll help build technology that supports one of the most important climate transitions of our time.
At ReCover You Will
- work on mission-driven climate technology
- collaborate with research labs and industry leaders
- build tools used by governments, engineers, and building owners
- help create Canada's retrofit intelligence platform
Position Details
- This is a hybrid or remote position; ideally, you are located in Atlantic Canada, but we will consider candidates from across Canada.
- 35 hours/week, Monday to Friday
- Fixed-term position with an end date of March 2027
- Salary is competitive based on qualifications and work experience
- Four weeks of paid vacation
- Company health benefits available