Software Engineer, Source.ag
Data Platform
€71-90k
More information about location
2 days a week in office
AI for agriculture
Open for applications
AI for agriculture
101-200 employees
Open for applications
€71-90k
More information about location
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To grow a prosperous and healthy community connecting food, fun, tech, and farming.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for pragmatic system builders who thrive on solving complex problems
- Have a "Problem-First" Mindset: When faced with a request, your first instinct is to ask, "What is the underlying problem we are trying to solve?" You are driven to find the most efficient solution to the root cause
- Take High Ownership: You feel a deep sense of accountability for your work. You see projects through to completion and are proactive about identifying and fixing issues
- Are a Pragmatic Builder: You have a bias for action and know how to find the 80/20 solution to deliver value quickly without sacrificing quality. You have a strong sense of what it takes to build and operate real-world systems
- Think in Systems: You don't just see your service; you see how it fits into the broader architecture. You can reason about dependencies, data flows, and the impact of your changes
- Communicate with Clarity: You can articulate complex technical ideas simply and directly, both in writing (docs, code comments) and in person
- Proven relevant work experience building and operating production systems (typically 4+ years), with a strong focus on either backend or data engineering, and a demonstrated interest in the other
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating modern data platforms. You bring experience-based opinions on how to build them well. Expertise with Databricks or Snowflake is essential
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Golang
- Experience mentoring other engineers or leading technical projects is highly desirable
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on our Platform & Data team, you will be the backbone of our engineering organization
- The Platform team's mission is to accelerate all other product teams by providing robust, scalable, and easy-to-use infrastructure, common components, and a world-class data platform
- This is a role for an engineer who loves both building resilient backend services and creating powerful data systems
- As our subject-matter expert in data platform engineering, you will be instrumental in leading the vision, architecture, and development of our Databricks environment
- You will establish best practices, mentor other engineers, and drive the technical roadmap for our data platform, directly impacting our ability to leverage data across the company
- A key project will be building out our "Cloud Modules," which allow our enterprise customers to securely access their data for their own BI and analysis
- Establish strong foundations and guardrails that empower other engineers and data scientists to confidently build and maintain high-quality data assets using python, Spark, dbt and SQL
- Define and evolve the technical direction of our Databricks platform, applying your data engineering expertise to ensure it evolves with the needs of our product teams
- Establish and champion data engineering best practices, including data modeling, testing, and CI/CD for our data stack
- Build shared tooling, automation, and documentation to streamline onboarding, improve productivity, and promote consistent use of the platform
- Contribute to our core platform services, written in Golang and gRPC, that provide capabilities and data to other services and our customers
Our take
Dutch agtech Source.ag installs AI-powered indoor farms in order to democratise access to sufficient fruit and vegetables whilst using fewer resources. Given that almost 45% of people worldwide do not have access to enough fruit and veg, this is a sizable problem to address.
As the climate crisis worsens, the company's services are in high demand, as indoor farms are essential in providing higher food security under increasingly challenging weather conditions. Source's hi-tech farms are able to protect crops against extreme heat, cold, rainfall or pests.
The company continues to invest in the development of its software that is making greenhouses smarter, whilst also onboarding new customers and expanding partnerships. It is well-funded, which has enabled accelerated product development and supported the expansion of commercial collaborations.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2023
$4m
SERIES A
Feb 2023
$23m
SERIES A
Total funding: $37m
Company HQ
Sloten en Riekerpolder, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Rien Kamman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously acted as Associate Director of Data Science for BCG GAMMA and as the Principal for Boston Consulting Group.
Ernst van Bruggen
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously spent over five years at McKinsey & Company, eventually acting as Engagement Manager.
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