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title: 'Backend Engineer at Cambio AI Inc.'
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# Backend Engineer at Cambio AI Inc.

- **Company:** Cambio AI Inc.
- **Location:** Waterloo, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cambio/34400221-9b07-4db9-929b-3441bdf00dd4

## Job description

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

## About Cambio AI Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cambio provides an AI-powered operations platform for commercial real estate asset managers, enabling automated data ingestion, retrofit identification, compliance reporting, and portfolio-wide decision-making.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (133 W 25th Street, Suite 7W)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Elvis Wong (Co-Founder) – additional co-founders not publicly named.

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Commercial real estate operations, sustainability & decarbonization, property technology (PropTech).
- **Target customers**: Institutional asset managers, real estate investors (LPs, GPs, JVs), sustainability leaders, property managers – primarily B2B enterprise.
- **Mission / purpose**: Decarbonize commercial real estate by surfacing the highest‑impact actions, quantifying financial upside, and automating the heavy lifting of data management so teams can move from “we should decarb” to “here’s the plan” in weeks.

## Products & Services
- **Cambio Platform (SaaS)**: AI-native command center that ingests building data from PDFs, spreadsheets, and APIs; surfaces ROI-ranked retrofit opportunities; automates compliance reporting (GRESB, TCFD, SFDR, EnergyStar, regulatory benchmarking); and enables escalation and collaboration across asset management, property management, and engineering teams.
- **Data Ingestion & Integration**: Connects to thousands of utility providers, EnergyStar Portfolio Manager, and corporate data lakes via API.
- **Compliance & Reporting Module**: Generates automated reports for GRESB, TCFD, SFDR, EnergyStar, and investor benchmarking.
- **Retrofit Identification Engine**: Uses AI to rank energy-efficiency and decarbonization projects by ROI and coordinates implementation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$19.4M** (latest round: $18M Series A in February 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Maverick Ventures (lead), Y Combinator, Adverb Ventures, Peterson Ventures; angel investors from Procore, OpenAI, Anthropic, Vanta, Vercel, ServiceNow, Notion, Amplitude. Official GRESB Partner.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Operates in **35+ countries** and serves **12,201 buildings** representing **2.0 billion square feet** on the platform.
  - Achieved **4x data quality improvement** after switching to Cambio (third-party audited).
  - **Yearly headcount growth of +102.9%** (61 employees as of mid-2026).
  - Customer case study: Nuveen Real Estate identified **$9.2M in energy cost savings** across its affordable housing portfolio using Cambio.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built by real estate investors for real estate investors** – founding team brings decades of experience from Goldman Sachs, KKR, JPMorgan, BGO, CBRE, Oxford Properties Group.
- **Agentic AI platform** that automates data collection, analysis, and decision-making, replacing manual spreadsheets and PDFs.
- **Comprehensive compliance coverage** (GRESB, TCFD, SFDR, EnergyStar, regulatory benchmarking) out of the box.
- **ISO 27001 certified**, **SOC 2 Type II compliant**, and **GDPR compliant** – meeting enterprise security and privacy standards.
- **Single source of truth** for portfolio-wide data, eliminating silos between investments, asset management, property management, and sustainability teams.

## Strategic Focus
- **Decarbonization at scale**: Continue expanding retrofit identification and execution capabilities to help institutional investors meet net-zero goals.
- **Global expansion**: Already in 35+ countries; likely to deepen presence in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
- **Agentic AI innovation**: Prototyping new AI models and features (e.g., retrofit ranking algorithms, data quality checks) to stay at the frontier of PropTech.
- **Deepening integrations**: Connecting to more utility providers, corporate data lakes, and third-party platforms.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasizes “effortless decarbonization,” customer obsession (Partner Strategy team acts as an extension of staff), and fearless experimentation (“we prototype new AI models constantly”).
- **Team composition**: Mix of software engineers, data scientists, building engineers, and real estate professionals – a blend of Silicon Valley tech and deep domain expertise.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling (102% yearly headcount growth) with strong funding and customer traction – offers significant ownership and impact.
- **Remote / hybrid policy**: Not publicly specified; headquarters in New York City with open positions likely supporting hybrid or remote arrangements (check job listings for specifics).
- **Notable perks**: Work on a mission-driven product that directly contributes to decarbonizing a $20T industry; autonomy to experiment with cutting-edge AI.

## Sources
1. [cambio.ai](https://www.cambio.ai/)
2. [cambio.ai/careers](https://cambio.ai/careers)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/cambio](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cambio)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cambio-2)
5. [linkedin.com/company/cambioai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cambioai)

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