Full Stack Software Engineer

What You’ll Do: 

• Work with our team of engineers and scientists to: 
• Build and deploy our farm-monitoring web app frontend, backend, and APIs 
• Apply your expertise in architecture and framework choices 
• Build tools to support our R&D team as we expand our sensor’s capabilities 
• Travel to national and international sites to gain better understanding of users and use cases 
• Actively shape our product development and the future of our company

Role Requirements: 

• Expertise in at least one modern language: Python, Javascript, Ruby, C#, Java, etc 
• Knowledge of the elements of modern web architecture and the ability to help decide when to use them, e.g. GraphQL vs. REST, relational vs. document stores 
• 2+ years professional programming experience 
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills. Attention to detail. 
• Strong communication: superb speaking, listening, and writing skills 
• Ability to engage in and contribute to productive discussions on complex topics 
• Ability to build shared understanding, and to commit in the face of unresolved ambiguity 
• Willingness to engage with real-time online collaboration tools 
• Knack for understanding how business requirements drive technical solutions 
• Drive to use your engineering skills to make a positive impact in the world

Qualities That Will Stand Out to Us: 

You have demonstrated in your career multiple examples of: 

• Technical capability: You are technically curious and tackle problems without giving up. You produce solutions that less-experienced folks can use, maintain, and learn from. 
• Collaboration: You are driven by the collective output of your team. You work hard to reach a level of trust with your teammates where candid feedback can flow freely. 
• Leadership: You know how to develop and follow a sense of purpose in yourself and in others. You are willing to point out, own, and fix things that are broken. 
• Intellectual Curiosity: You are broadly curious across multiple disciplines. This curiosity has led you to contribute beyond your area of expertise to advance your team toward reaching its goals.

Competitive Perks: 

• Option to work 80% time 
• Option to work remotely 
• Technology purchase stipend (laptops, headphones, etc.) 
• The office is one block from 19th St BART in Oakland (and next to a rock climbing gym) 
• Seed-stage salary + equity package 
• Health + dental insurance (company pays 70%) 
• 18 days PTO + 18 days unpaid time off per year + 11 paid holidays 
• Free breakfast & lunch (cook your own!). We have a full kitchen and the company will provide whatever vegetarian groceries you want to cook for yourself (within reason). 
• Learn and grow in ways that you only can at an early stage startup

Tech Stack: 

How our system is currently built:

• Python + Numpy/Scipy stack 
• Jupyter notebooks (for R&D) 
• Javascript + Node.js 
• React 
• GitHub + CircleCI 
• Raspberry Pi as our base prototyping platform for IoT 
• AWS for cloud infrastructure (RDS, S3, Lambda, etc)