Full Stack Product Engineer, FSID
£50-80k
1-3 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
R&D, software development, and product delivery
Job no longer available
R&D, software development, and product delivery
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
£50-80k
1-3 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To support the improvement of agricultural systems in both the developing and developed world.
Role
Who you are
- Given the varied nature of the role, we are looking for a talented generalist engineer who also cares deeply about product and end-users. We are looking for:
- 5+ years of experience building software (both front and back end)
- Experience taking a product from conception to implementation. You are not daunted by a blank IDE and can work reliably and autonomously to bring a product to life
- A strong understanding of the full SDLC
- Experience in database design (both relational and no-SQL)
- Someone with a passion for building and delivering products
- A pragmatic engineer who uses the right tools for the job
- Someone who is excited by influencing the product roadmap and design
- Someone who is not afraid to turn their hand to unfamiliar tasks
- You are empathetic and keep users front of mind when making decisions
Desirable
- Lead software development at FSID
- Collaborate with NGOs, governments, and private sector stakeholders to translate their needs into actionable product requirements
- Work with a small interdisciplinary team, including mathematical modellers, epidemiologists, to ensure seamless integration of models into industry-grade user-centric software tools that leverage models for near real-time outbreak monitoring and management
- Communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- Build out the MVP of our plant disease decision support tool, and to maintain the infrastructure used to run our epidemic models. As a product engineer, you will input significantly to the product roadmap and design decisions, as well as shipping high-quality code. As a product engineer you will work with our partners to gather requirements and translate these to features which will support decision makers (NGOs / governments / private sector) to make improved decisions around surveillance and management of outbreaks. You will also input significantly into the product roadmap and make design decisions based on the requirements you have gathered. From a technical perspective, you will take the lead on the development of the MVP of our decision support tool, shipping to production with a pragmatic approach. Most of our code is currently written in Typescript - we use Supabase as our backend and SvelteKit for the frontend - but at its early stages we can discuss changes to the tech stack. In addition to developing the decision support tool, you will support the development and maintenance of infrastructure code to run epidemic models on cloud-based HPC and maintain our data pipelines.
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In the face of climate change and rapidly changing ecosystems, less economically developed countries are in need of more innovative solutions to sustain agricultural businesses and exports. FSID otherwise known as Food Systems Innovation & Delivery helps to discover new strategies in supply chain optimisation, pest and disease control and data generation.
Crops and pests reduce global agricultural yields by 20-40% whilst “informal” food systems in developing countries lack solid data. Between harvest and retail, 31% of goods are lost from these markets as well. FSID’s efficiency strategy for these markets involves spatial modelling frameworks to increase yield, data generation optimisation and software development for disease outbreak early warning systems.
Working with academics, researchers, and NGOs, FSID is a small company with the potential to make a big impact at critical stages of the agricultural pipeline. It’ll be interesting to see how its strategies evolve at a critical time for agricultural development.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Seb Worthington
(Director & Co-Founder)Also Director at Zureli, CEO and Co-Founder at Invert Ventures, Non-Exec Director at Virgate and was the Chief Operating Officer at enferm.
David Godding
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Head of Data at enferm, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Cambridge, CTO & Co-Founder at Farming Data and was a Research Student at Harvard University.
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