Agriculture is one of the last industries to be enabled by technology - here at Hectare, we’re leading the digital transformation.
With an ambitious roadmap of new supply chain products, services and finance initiatives, we’re looking for a Senior Node.JS (Typescript) Back End Engineer with extensive experience to join our close-knit product, engineering and design team of 16 people. The role is a flexible hybrid of remote work and office time with a minimum of 1 day a week in our London office, or more if you prefer.
About us
Founded in 2015 by farmers and developers, Hectare is a fast-growing agritech business with a growing team of more than 40 people. The Hectare platform now powers some of farming’s fastest-growing supply chains and marketplaces and has recently secured a round of funding, opening up exciting opportunities for future growth.
Today agricultural businesses need to supply more produce, more efficiently. Couple that with climate change pressures, meaning we have to do more with less. Our role is to digitally engineer what is possible.
We want to be the global leader in solutions to enable agricultural post-production (farm gate to factory door) supply chains and our platform powers solutions for agricultural inventory management and trading as well as providing important insights for smarter, data-led decision-making in agriculture.
If you are curious, highly driven, and want to help us change the future of our industry, get in touch. It’s the chance to be part of something huge.
About you
- Excited about working in a rapidly growing AgriTech business that will throw you in at the deep end
- Experienced in development in JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js, able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of how to write high-performance, efficient code
- Able to understand and challenge business requirements and turn this into efficient, scalable solutions, with a desire to learn our business domain
- Experienced in writing thorough unit amp; integration tests with a strong desire to ensure code is always robust and reliable
- Experienced in troubleshooting and problem-solving
- Experienced in operations and administration of relational databases ideally Postgres
- Experienced in document-based databases, specifically MongoDB amp; RavenDB
- Excellent working knowledge of Amazon Web Services, including Lambda, Fargate, Eventbridge Cognito and knowledge of Serverless environments
- A great team player who is also a strong confident communicator with the ability to express new ideas and solutions to both technical and non-technical audience
- A quick learner, able to pick up new skills and technologies easily and enjoys working on complex issues, breaking new ground in agriculture
- A good level of understanding of internet related technologies, HTTP protocol, CDN’s, DNS etc.
- Exceptional analytical and problem solving aptitude coupled with great interpersonal and organisational skills
- Relishes working in a fast-paced environment where you take responsibility for developing products that will make an impact for a sustainable, productive and profitable future for agriculture
What success will look like
- Working alongside the VP Engineering, Chief Product Officer, VP of Product and other team members, you’ll help build out our agtech solutions that delight both internal and external customers
- Working in domain-aligned cross functional teams made up of developers, testers and designers along with colleagues from our product, customer success and sales teams
- Building and implementing a range of developments including APIs in Node.JS and typescript, data solutions (reporting, analysis, migration processes for example) using a variety of database technologies
- Hands-on in terms of software development, testing, debugging, deployment and support
- Involved with software specification and documentation
- Helping to develop and promote appropriate processes and best practice
Benefits
- Competitive salary range
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- A generous and comprehensive benefits package (full details on our website) including pension, dental care, life insurance, mental health sessions, Lamp;D budget, team socials, cycle to work scheme, car salary sacrifice, work from anywhere and more
- Flexibility to work a mix of remote with a minimum of 1 day a week (or more if you prefer) in our offices at Sustainability workspace, County Hall near Waterloo station in London
The hiring process
1. First, interview and technical test - You’ll have a 20-30 minute chat via video call with our VP of Engineering and usually another member of our engineering team so we can find out more about your experience and ambitions. This will be followed by a short technical test.
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