Full Stack Developer - Sustainable Agriculture Software

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Full-stack Developer

Sustainable Agriculture SaaS start-up (already at 5% market share <1 year since launch, just closed over-subscribed seed round)

Hybrid (able to travel to our shared office in London regularly)

£50,000 per annum + generous equity options

Flexible working hours ⏰, support for professional development, working directly with our co-founders in a fun, fast-paced environment.

Check out our website

Ready to join our mission and be part of a dynamic team that's making a real difference? If you are a passionate developer with a drive to create positive environmental impact, we'd love to hear from you!

Apply now and join us in this rewarding journey to restore the health of our soils and contribute to a sustainable future!

To apply:

You can apply at https://app.welcometothejungle.com/jobs/jBLU4QfR

*** Please note, we will only review candidates based in the UK and who are able to be in London regularly as we really value our hybrid setup. If this isn’t you, please don’t waste your time or ours in applying.*** ****

Are you a developer wanting to apply your skills in a way that has a positive impact on the planet? 🌍

At Soil Benchmark, we’re on a mission to restore the health of soils around the world through our Digital Soil Management platform. We’re a fast-growing start-up and need more brilliant people like you! Join us to help shape a future where healthy soils support profitable farms, delivering nutritious food, clean rivers, thriving wildlife, and carbon removal.

Do you want to make a real difference to one of the biggest challenges of our time? (And how can you answer ‘no’ to that one? 🤷)

Unsustainable agricultural practices are degrading our soils. This is awful news for both farm businesses and the environment. Degraded soils don’t function properly in their natural roles of cleaning water, storing carbon, and promoting biodiversity. At the same time, farms lose the benefits of natural soil fertility, which impacts their profitability.

If you’re our ideal candidate, you’ll care about how humanity is impacting our planet, and you might already be aware that the health of global soils is at crisis point. Soil Benchmark helps solve this crisis. Our independent, data-driven, software assists Farm Advisors (currently in the UK but you will help us expand elsewhere) in defining and implementing sustainable soil management practices.

In less than a year, we’ve signed up more than 5% of all England’s farmland, unlocking over £2.8m in Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) funding per year. And we’re only just getting started! 🚀

https://www.loom.com/share/d0ca4234d415465b84cd53ae3533d26c

OK nice idea, but why should I quit my nice cushy job to work at a start-up?

We’re a start-up, but we’ve shown we are onto something. Initially backed by grant funding from DEFRA, Ordnance Survey, and the European Space Agency, we’ve built a fantastic product that’s now generating recurring revenues from farms across the UK. In fact we’re actually now profitable, which not every start-up can say. We’ve just completed a very oversubscribed seed round, and we want to accelerate our growth even further — that’s where you come in! 💪

Yes, we’re early-stage, so you’d need to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in, but we think we’ve shown that we’re going places. We’d love you to join us and help achieve our ambitious mission.

Great, I’m sold. How can I get involved?

We have a clearly defined plan of what we need to build next, both in terms of product development and growth. As one of our team of developers, you’ll play a central role in shaping and expanding our platform. You’ll be working closely with Ben (our co-founder and CSO), the rest of our dev team, and directly with customers (farm advisors and farmers) to create data-driven tools that really make a difference.

What we’re after:

• 🌍 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 willing to get stuck in with us.
• 📚 Love learning: We don’t mind if you don’t have experience in every single area we work in. As long as you love learning and pick things up quickly, you’ll be brilliant!
• 🛠️ 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 fix things for them.

What will I actually be doing day-to-day?

• Building our software based on the features that our users have already asked us to add to our platform. In the short term this would focus on adding features to our Soil, Manure and Nutrient Management Plans.
• Using your experience in software development to read between the lines of feedback and identify the problems that users are facing – and then come up with and build novel features that solve those problems. Even if users aren’t telling us explicitly what the problem is - e.g. making a feature more intuitive if you see on a live demo that users aren’t quickly working out how it should be used.
• Refining how we sell the platform and also building out our internal dashboards to work out which bits of the customer journey we should focus on improving.
• Speaking with our customers (farm advisors and farmers) to get their feedback (this could be watching them use the product live on a call which we do frequently, or just them getting in touch with feedback). Then working with them and the team to define new features and products.

Our Tech Stack:

Here’s our current tech stack to whet your appetite (but to re-iterate what we said earlier, we really don’t mind if you don’t have experience in the full stack below, as long as you like learning and picking up new things up):

Here’s what you’ll be working with:

• Programming Languages: R, Python, Javascript, CSS, SQL, PL/pgSQL, HTML
• Frameworks: Shiny, Leaflet
• Database: PostgreSQL, PostGIS
• Tools: Git, Docker
• Google Cloud Platform: Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL

We think this is a unique opportunity to combine your technical skills with a mission-driven purpose. And if you enjoy solving problems, learning new things, and making a real impact, we’d love to meet you!

Of course, the package will include salary (£50k) and generous equity options so that you share in our success. We also know that working towards our mission needs to fit into both your life and your career:

• We are open to in-office or remote working options. We have a shared office space in Farringdon, London. It would be ideal if you are able to get to London fairly easily as we try to meet up as a team at least every few weeks in person. But if you want to be in the office every day, or work mainly from home, either is fine with us!
• 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 are also really proud to support professional development for all our team. We want Soil Benchmark to be a driver not just of soil health on our customers' farms, but of the careers of all our team.
• And finally, a job should be fun! You spend too much of your life doing it to not enjoy yourself. So while we do work hard to build tools that our customers are asking for, we don't take ourselves too seriously. You will be working alongside our co-founders in a fun, fast-paced environment.

Ready to join our mission and be part of a dynamic team that's making a real difference? If you are a passionate developer with a drive to create positive environmental impact, we'd love to hear from you!

Apply now and join us in this rewarding journey to restore the health of our soils and contribute to a sustainable future!

To apply:

You can apply at https://app.welcometothejungle.com/jobs/jBLU4QfR

*** Please note, we will only review candidates based in the UK and who are able to be in London regularly as we really value our hybrid setup. If this isn’t you, please don’t waste your time or ours in applying.*** ****