Fullstack Software Engineering Intern, Farmless
Compensation: 1K EUR a month
Carbon negative fermentation platform
Open for applications
Carbon negative fermentation platform
1-20 employees
Open for applications
Compensation: 1K EUR a month
1-20 employees
Company mission
To free food production from animals and agricultural land.
Role
Who you are
- Full-stack. TypeScript, React, Postgres, comfortable across frontend and backend. You don’t need to have used our exact stack
- You think in data models. This is the one we weight hardest. The difficulty in BrewBase is almost never the React — it’s deciding what a thing is, and what has to still be true about it in two years. You should have designed a schema that someone else then had to live with, and have opinions about how that went
- SQL, properly. Not an ORM’s worth. You should be comfortable in Postgres and know why a constraint beats a comment
- Builder mentality. You’ve built things outside coursework. Side projects, open source, something that runs and has users. Show us, don’t describe
- You have taste. We care about interfaces that are dense, fast, and precise. If you have a point of view about UI, you’ll enjoy it here. If you think a modal solves problems, less so
- Fast learner. Excited to dive into fermentation biology, analytical chemistry, and food science — domains few software engineers ever touch
- Mission driven. Rewriting how the world makes protein genuinely excites you
- Bonus points for: data visualisation done well, time-series data at scale, Python for analysis and automation, lab instrumentation or scientific software, a biology, chemistry or food science background, previous startup experience
What the job involves
- The Software That Runs a Protein Brewery
- Finding out what needs to be built is the start of the job: sitting with the scientists who run our fermentations, harvests and assays, and working out what they’re actually doing
- That’s harder than it sounds
- People will describe the process they think they follow, and the spreadsheet they actually use has ten exceptions in it that nobody mentions until you’ve shipped without them
- You work out the real answer, then you build it
- Then you find out which parts you still got wrong, because the people using it are in the same building and they will tell you
- That’s the loop, and it’s why this internship is worth doing
- Most interns ship into a void
- You’ll ship at 11 and watch someone use it at 14
- The last person to do this internship built our Food Application module
- They arrived, sat down with the food scientists, and built the whole thing: recipe formulation where a finished recipe can be promoted into an ingredient for the next one, with nutrient values rolling up automatically; blinded sensory panels that external tasters join by link; EU and US regulatory nutrition labels generated straight from the formulation
- It’s one of BrewBase’s three top-level modules, the food team uses it every day, and they stopped opening Excel
- That’s the scale of what an internship here can be
- Our pilot plant is in our Amsterdam headquarters, and your users are twenty metres from your desk. You can watch someone use what you built, badly, and fix it before lunch. We build from first principles. If “industry standard” slows us down, we rewrite it. If you’re looking for a standard 9-to-5 internship, this is not it — your learning curve is as steep as you can handle
- A module of BrewBase that is yours, in production, used daily by our scientists
- Deep full-stack judgement — schema design, API design, and interfaces under real constraints
- The rare experience of designing software for a domain nobody has solved yet
- Infrastructure that doesn’t exist anywhere else
Our take
The climate crisis has heightened the urgency to develop alternative food sources, aiming to protect our planet and efficiently sustain the ever-growing global population. With a new approach to protein production, Farmless seeks to positively change the way we produce food for a better future.
The Dutch startup has developed the means to make a 'carbon negative' protein that requires between 10 and 25 times less agricultural land compared to conventional plant-based protein. Farmless makes its protein using a fermentation platform that utilises a liquid feedstock from renewable energy sources instead of sugar.
Founder Adnan Oner believes Farmless has the potential to end factory farming, revitalising our planet's ecosystem, and mitigating gigatons of carbon emissions. Although this is an ambitious claim, the company's substantial support from a number of investors so early on has propelled Farmless out of stealth mode and into the public eye, and highlights the potential it has to bring significant positive change to the agricultural industry.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$1.2m
GRANT
Dec 2023
$5.6m
SEED
Total funding: $8.2m
Company benefits
- Free healthy vegan lunches, snacks and drinks
- Company provides you with a new macbook
Company HQ
Jodenbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Adnan Oner
(Founder)Previously worked as the Head of Product at Tapfiliate and at 30MHz as a Hardware and Software Engineer.
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