🌍🌾🧑💻 Junior Full-Stack Developer, Soil Benchmark
Sustainable Agriculture Startup
£40k
+ Generous Equity Options
Award winning Agri-tech start-up (11.4% market share in <2 years, raised over-subscribed seed round)
Posted today
Award winning Agri-tech start-up (11.4% market share in <2 years, raised over-subscribed seed round)
1-20 employees
Posted today
£40k
+ Generous Equity Options
1-20 employees
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
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: We don't mind if you don't have experience in every single piece of our tech stack (detailed below). Just make sure you're passionate about building a great product and coding elegant solutions
- 🎯 Frontend-focused: You are comfortable working across the entire stack, but frontend development is your sweet spot
- 🤖 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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!
- Building our software based on our user-defined feature pipeline. This will focus mainly on frontend development (with inevitable exposure to backend-work as part of a full-stack role) with a short term emphasis on our new Pesticide Recommendations Product
- Supporting the migration of our frontend to React (using Next.js)
- Interpreting user feedback to identify areas for improvement and propose new features to help UX
- 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 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$0.8m
EARLY VC
Apr 2023
$0.2m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $1.3m
Company benefits
- Generous equity options
- In-office or remote working options
- Flexible working hours
- Supporting professional development
Company values
- 👩🏼🤝👨🏿 Diverse: improving the diversity of our team is a key aim for us in hiring for this role. We know that the best way to come up with the best solutions to the problems our customers ask us to fix is to have a team with as broad a range of perspectives as possible. We want to continue to do better on this, and really encourage candidates from diverse and under-represented backgrounds to apply.
- 🌍 Hybrid and flexible – you’ll get a WeWork Access card giving you entry to any WeWork globally. We meet in Paddington at least once a month - so ideally you will be able to get to London easily. But day-to-day you can work remotely or go into the office - whatever works best for you.
- ⏰ Work that fits around life – we know that there are other things in life than work, so we have flexible working hours. Work when suits you (within reason) and take holiday when you need to. We are all committed to our mission and trust each other to work hard to achieve our ambitious goals.
- 📚 We take your development seriously - we want Soil Benchmark to be a great foundation for your future career and therefore block out 2 hours every Thursday for you to learn anything relevant to your professional development (we bought Richard a soldering set 🔧, Grace is learning Welsh 🏴). We also have monthly check-ins to hear about what you’ve been learning and to chat about your career growth.
- 🎉 Fun and supportive. Perhaps we’re unusual, but we think a job should be fun! So while we do work hard to build tools that our customers are asking for, we don't take ourselves too seriously. You’ll be working alongside our co-founders in a fun, fast-paced environment with monthly hackathons (with drinks after), multiple away days each year (this summer was in Ireland), and LOTS of silly gifs on Slack.
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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