Senior Python Engineer, HowGood
$130-185k
Sustainable food rating company
Open for applications
Sustainable food rating company
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$130-185k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To rapidly assess the environmental and social impact of every ingredient in your product formulations to make more sustainable supply system decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to communicate their opinions to the team, as well as with senior management
- 5+ years experience with Python
- 3+ years experience with Django
- Passionate about code readability, docs, and testing as priority, ahead of optimization
- Experience building REST APIs
- Experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database
- Familiarity with Git and Docker
What the job involves
- Work with the Research and Product teams to implement and design new features, such as metric calculations or better ways of storing/presenting data
- Own the architecture, implementation, and delivery of features from concept to deployment
- Test and document your work, along with the standards and conventions agreed upon by the team
- Help the team grow and improve team culture by putting forward your ideas
- The engineering team is at the center of operations at HowGood
- We build the applications used by our Fortune 500 customers to make critical decisions, and the tools our Research Team uses to work with large pools of data
- The work we do enables customers to see the entire universe of sourcing choices and understand their impact within a greater system
- Our team is currently building and evolving our core features in three key directions
- We are expanding the capacity and subject matter of our data ingestion to show change over time in carbon emissions, biodiversity impact, working conditions, and other metrics
- We are also enhancing our reporting on sustainability performance, for things like evaluating regulatory compliance globally
- Finally, we are building the platform used by suppliers to integrate their inventories into our platform
- Sustainability experience is not required to be successful here – we look for smart, ideologically motivated, empathetic engineers who love solving problems and are determined to make an impact in line with our mission
- While working on a team of like minded engineers, you will have complete ownership of the solutions and architectural designs that keep HowGood nimble
- The applications and infrastructure that we build requires the ability to seamlessly handle huge amounts of data quickly and reliably, to put our customers on a regenerative path
- Our impact on the world depends on it
- Our Stack:
- Python/Django, Docker, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, AWS
Our take
Born from a dearth of data on sustainable food, HowGood offers a platform with the world’s largest database on food and personal care sustainability. Drawing from over 550 different data sources to assess over 33,000 different ingredients, chemicals and materials, HowGood provides brands and retailers with the information to improve their environmental and social impact.
Since its fruition in 2006, we have only become more environmentally conscious. HowGood has grown up with the demand; its sustainability intelligence guides brands towards meeting their sustainability goals, created due to pressure from customers. Whilst HowGood’s client list, including Chipotle and Kraft Heinz, speaks to its central and trusty position within a shifting industry.
Its influence is set to grow further, with the reality that more than 70% of shoppers are more willing to pay more for sustainable products coupled with the strategic investment of its funding, which has gone towards expanding industry partnerships and developing HowGood’s intelligence platform, Latis.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$12.5m
LATE VC
Feb 2021
$6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $30.4m
Company HQ
Marbletown, Stone Ridge, NY
Leadership
Alexander Gillett
(CEO)Previously worked in Management and Sales for CertaPro. Spent 6 years as a Senior Consultant for a variety of tech companies and private individuals.
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