Build the ESG Operating System of the future and own the technology of an ESMA-licensed rating agency. Be part of the Executive team with equity

Ecomate is a European ESG rating agency and the first ESG Operating System: a self-service SaaS and PaaS suite that lets any company integrate, manage, and report sustainability — or monitor the ESG performance of the businesses it works with. We are an ESG rating provider under Regulation (EU) 2024⁄3005 , supervised by ESMA, accredited by Accredia under ISO/IEC 17029, and built in Europe for European companies across every EU framework (CSRD, ESRS, Taxonomy, SFDR, CSDDD). Our roadmap spans thirty-plus interconnected products — from a two-hour SME rating to unsolicited ESG risk scores on millions of companies, a white-label platform, an API, and an “open-ESG” scientific committee.

Located in Milan or willing to relocate (80% ON SITE, 20% REMOTE)
Super fluent in Italian and sufficiently fluent in English
Wanting to work for equity as much as in the fixed salary

If your instinct is to solve problems by hiring, this isn’t the fit.



That makes this an unusual Senior Software Engineer / CTO role. You will hold two disciplines at once that most technology leaders only ever hold one of. On the other, an aggressively AI-native product layer: agents, copilots, and intelligence products that reward speed and breadth. The whole architecture rests on keeping those two planes separate and connecting them through a single, controlled gate. You will be the person who understands why that line exists and never lets it blur.
Your job is to design the system in which humans and agents together produce far more than a conventional team, while keeping the quality a regulated codebase demands.

And you will lead a team that isn’t only human. You’ll orchestrate people on-site, remote, and contract — alongside AI agents that write code, review it, test it, and operate the platform. Directing that hybrid workforce well is the central skill of th

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