🌍🌾🧑‍💻 Full-Stack Developer, Soil Benchmark

Sustainable Agriculture Startup

£50k

+ Generous Equity Options

SQL

Docker

CSS

GCP

HTML

JavaScript

Python

Postgres

Next.js

Git

FastAPI

Junior and Mid level

London

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Award winning Agri-tech start-up (11.4% market share in <2 years, raised over-subscribed seed round)

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Award winning Agri-tech start-up (11.4% market share in <2 years, raised over-subscribed seed round)

1-20 employees

B2BAgricultureSaaSData Analysis

Job no longer available

£50k

+ Generous Equity Options

SQL

Docker

CSS

GCP

HTML

JavaScript

Python

Postgres

Next.js

Git

FastAPI

Junior and Mid level

London

More information about location

1-20 employees

B2BAgricultureSaaSData Analysis

Company mission

At Soil Benchmark, we’re building cutting-edge geospatial software that makes it quicker and easier to create the farm management plans that help restore healthy soils and clean rivers across the UK. Since launching our platform less than two years ago, we've signed up more than 11% of England's farmland and we're only just getting started 🚀. Here’s a quick look at what our platform does: https://t.ly/NmcN7

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Company

Role

Who you are

🌍 Green: You want to make a tangible difference in improving the environment and reducing our impact on the planet. (Please, please don’t apply if you aren’t passionate about this—it’s by far the most important qualification)
🤝 Team player: We’re building a tribe, not just a team! Think silly gifs on Slack, away days, and attending inspiring conferences or events. We want someone who’s excited to be part of a small but highly effective team.
💻 Love coding: You have demonstrable experience building production applications and are passionate about writing clean, maintainable code and delivering great products
🎯 Full-stack proficiency: You're comfortable working across the entire stack, with strong frontend skills and solid backend experience. You can own features from database to UI
🤖 AI-Native: You are already competent in using AI tools and are excited about the future of full-stack development in the rapidly evolving world of AI-assisted software development
️ Problem solver: We exist to solve problems for our amazing customers. They’re fantastic at giving us lots of feedback, and we’re looking for someone who enjoys coming up with neat ways to implement their ideas

Desirable

**🌱 Are you a junior developer wanting to apply your skills in a way that has a positive impact? 🌍**
Unsustainable farming practices are degrading soils and waterways worldwide. That’s bad news for rivers, wildlife, climate and food security. If you’re our ideal candidate, you’ll care about these big challenges of our time, and will want to use to your technical talents to make a difference
At Soil Benchmark, we’re building cutting-edge geospatial software that makes it quicker and easier to create the farm management plans that help restore healthy soils and clean rivers across the UK. Since launching our platform less than two years ago, we've signed up more than 11% of England's farmland and we're only just getting started . We now need more brilliant people like you to support this growth!
Join us to help shape a future where land management supports profitable farms, delivering nutritious food, clean rivers, thriving wildlife, healthy soils and carbon removal
Here’s a quick look at what our platform does: https://t.ly/NmcN7

What the job involves

Leading development of features from our user-defined pipeline, taking ownership of both frontend and backend implementation, with a short-term emphasis on our new Pesticide Recommendations Product
Driving our frontend migration to React (using Next.js), contributing to architectural decisions and implementation
Interpreting user feedback to identify areas for improvement, proposing new features, and making technical recommendations to enhance UX
Contributing to technical decision-making, code reviews, and helping establish best practices as we scale
Engaging with our customers (farm advisors and farmers). This could be answering messages on our live chat, watching them use the product on a call, or talking to them at events like Groundswell
You’ll get to:
⚡ **Ship fast** – write something in the morning, and see it in production that afternoon
** Learn a lot** – work closely with our co-founders and experienced team. You’ll pick up skills far quicker than in a big corporate
**💡Put your ideas into practice** – solve real user problems and see your ideas shape a product you can be proud of
**🎉 Own a stake** – with equity in the company, you share in the upside as we grow
You’d need to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, but we think we’ve shown that we’re going places - [even Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Gary Neville agree]! We’d love you to join us and help achieve our ambitious mission

Application process

Please, please, please write your own answer to the 'Why do you want to work at Soil Benchmark?' - it's painfully obvious when it's just been put into ChatGPT. This is one of our biggest filters, as we really want to find people who are genuinely passionate about this role, not just those applying to every dev role they see. Spending a bit of time learning about Soil Benchmark and explaining in your own words why you would be excited to work with us is the key to being invited to a first-round interview

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Soils contain a wealth of biodiversity and play a key role in the quality of farm produce, animal health and much more. Farmers can use a variety of practices to keep their soils healthy, but the issue many in the agriculture sector face is the lack of understanding and knowledge of their own land and soil health. Soil Benchmark is a data analysis solution offering farmers a platform to analyse soil health and better utilise their data to create soil management plans.

Customers are able to join the platform easily by inputting a few sections of data to start them on their soil health journey. With the inputted data the platform uses a mapping system to detect sensitivities to develop a strategy for its customers

The early-stage company discloses that its founding product has been established but the platform will grow in directions initiated by its customer’s requests, staying true and adaptable to the field its serving. Also contributing toward the bettering of our climate crisis, soil can act as carbon stores and with the release of the new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) farmers are searching for exactly the kind of support Soil Benchmark is offering. The platform is most definitely joining an affluent sector and it will be exciting to see how it’s product broadens over time as it’s customer base grows

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Oct 2024

$0.8m

EARLY VC

Oct 2024

$0.4m

GRANT

Total funding: $1.6m

Company benefits

Generous equity options
In-office or remote working options
Flexible working hours
Supporting professional development

Company HQ

Northallerton, UK

Leadership

Tom Scrope

(CEO)

Philosophy graduate. Recovering accountant. Ben and I started Soil Benchmark to try and help farms like the one I grew up on to better manage their soils. I'm also a 2024 Nuffield Scholar.

Benjamin Butler

(CSO)

I studied Ocean Science at Bangor before moving into Soil Science at The James Hutton Institute. I started Soil Benchmark with Tom to make more of an impact on how soils were actually being managed.

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