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Senior Backend Engineer @ Iron Ox Full Time
About Us
Iron Ox is reimagining the modern farm, utilizing robotics and AI to grow fresh, consistent, and responsibly farmed produce for everyone. Our experienced team of growers, plant scientists, engineers, and innovators are passionate about deeply understanding and developing this new wave of technology to feed an ever-growing population.
Our mission at Iron Ox is dedicated to addressing some of the most significant issues in food security, now and in the future. We’re focused on sustainable, scalable food production for a changing climate and an ever-growing population.
As a Senior Backend Engineer you will join the Software team to help realize our vision for an optimized, intelligent farm. As part of our team, you will lead our efforts to architect, design, implement and test features in our backend as well as mentor other developers. You will play a key role in our efforts to develop, deploy, and maintain production-quality code that controls the robots and farm sensors, and provides an infrastructure for the UI and data teams. Some examples of systems you may work on include: APIs for the UI team to control robots and display information about the state of the plants on the farm, logic to control interactions between moving robots and robotic stations, data ingestion and storage for robotic and farm sensor data.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend engineer who cares about the craft of coding and system architecture. Proficiency of Python, DevOps and/or Data Engineering are big pluses. This is a great position for a Software Engineer who is interested in learning more about farming and robotics.
What You’ll Do
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- Architect and implement software systems for controlling robots and displaying farm data
- Improve our software practices by providing guidance thorough architecture designs, design and code reviews
- Work with UI, robotics, product, data science, grow and operation to identify needs, gather requirements and compile requirement documents
- Integrate and test software with UI, simulation and on physical robots
- Work with and mentor software engineering team members
- Help build an amazing software team by participating in our hiring process
What You’ll Bring
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- 5+ years of experience building clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Experience building RESTful APIs
- Experience in Python, backend systems and databases
- Excellent collaborative, communication, and documentation skills
- BS in Computer Science or a related field
- Ability to occasionally commute to our farm in Gilroy
Nice-to-Haves
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- Experience with Docker and DevOps technologies and practices
- Experience with data engineering technologies and practices
- An interest in agriculture
What We Offer
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- Iron Ox is a small startup with a big dream. You will be a part of a team founded on transparency, creativity, and impact on our mission to feed people
- Competitive compensation and meaningful equity package
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- 401K
We are a mission-driven and well-funded startup, backed by the likes of YCombinator, Pathbreaker Ventures, R7, and Crosslink Capital. We are headquartered in San Carlos, CA with our primary production greenhouse facility located in Gilroy, CA and Lockhart, TX.
Iron Ox is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Please note: Iron Ox does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing vendors, including recruitment agencies and/or search firms. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Iron Ox employees, or any other company location. Any submittals without a prior signed agreement will become property of Iron Ox.
U.S. E-Verify Notice: Iron Ox participates in E-Verify in the United States. Iron Ox will provide the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.