Data Engineering Manager, AeroFarms
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Aeroponic urban farming company
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Aeroponic urban farming company
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Travel required
101-200 employees
Company mission
To grow the best plants possible for the betterment of humanity.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Full Stack Development, or related roles with 2+ years in People Management
- Strong background in data pipeline orchestration and big data technologies
- Strong programming skills
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills
Desirable
- DevOps Experience
- Manufacturing Industry Experience
- Experience with Inductive Automation, Python, Unified Name Space, and MQTT
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineering Manager to design, build, and scale our Data Engineering and Software Engineering capabilities
- You will drive strategy, execution, and adoption of platform initiatives, ensuring reliability, security, and developer productivity across the organization
- You will also be a key contributor in the technical architecture and development related activities related to future farms
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for batch and real-time processing
- Develop and optimize ETL/ELT workflows to integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple sources
- Ensure data quality, governance, and lineage across data platforms
- Collaborate with Data Scientists and Analysts to support advanced analytics and machine learning initiatives
- Manage and tune data storage solutions (SQL/NoSQL databases, data warehouses, data lakes)
- Manage Snr. Software Engineer
- Wear multiple hats to help IT in a cross-section of items where needed
- Partner with other departments to design and deploy critical systems
- Challenge yourself and your peers to always improve
- Contribute to backend APIs, data services, and frontend integrations
- Design and build horizontally scalable components within a new major platform that the team is developing
- Apply strong coding practices and conduct reviews where necessary
- Our Tools:
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions & Azure DevOps
- On-Prem Infrastructure: VMware/ESXi/vSphere, Meraki
- Cloud: Azure
- Containers: Docker (Compose & Swarm), Kubernetes (AKS, K3s, ArgoCD)
- SQL: PostgreSQL, Timescale DB, MS SQL Server, Fabric
- Programming: Git, Typescript, JavaScript, Bash, PowerShell
- Frameworks/Libraries: React, AntD, Apollo/GraphQL, Express, Cypress, Redux/Saga
- Big Data: Kafka, Spark, Fabric, Power BI, Notebooks (Jupyter), Timescale DB
Our take
The vertical farming industry has been on the rise in recent years, as the world looks to mitigate the strain on farmland. Leveraging robotics, ML, aeroponics, and hydroponics to control growing climates, it represents a modern approach to farming, and AeroFarms is one of the most well known startups in the field.
The space is already competitive, but AeroFarms sets itself apart from the likes of Bowery Farms and Gotham Greens by its use of aeroponics to grow quality produce without sunlight or soil. The company hit the headlines back in 2017 when celebrity chef David Chang helped round out a $40 million funding round, and it's been growing ever since, supplying the likes of Stop & Shop, Walmart, and Whole Foods.
Despite a strong historic performance in the market, the company announced in 2023 that it was making a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing - brought on, it says, by "significant industry and capital market headwinds". It has, however, emerged from a business restructuring and refocusing with a new CEO, returning the company to the pursuit of growth with new financing options thereafter.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70.8m
LATE VC
Jul 2019
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $328.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- 401K with company match
- Health & Wellness Initiatives
- Collaborative work environment
- Team lunches with our fresh, local greens!
- Team-led initiatives and volunteer opportunities
- Free access to huge library of educational courses and programs
- Opportunities for professional development – we love to develop our staff and let them grow into new roles within the company
- Other domestic and international work opportunities: as we add new sites around the world, we will need AeroFarmers to fly our flag around the world
Leadership
Molly Montgomery
(CEO)Also a Member of the Unicorn and Innovator Community at World Economic Forum, is a Venture partner at Grosvenor and Board Member at NatureSweet.
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