HIRING: LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER TO KNIT THE SOFTWARE BACKBONE FOR AGRITECH WITH DATA, MACHINE LEARNING AND SCIENCE BACKED ACTIONABLES
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The Company / The data-rich, software-poor agrifood industry comes to RUBISKO to build tools that bring clarity, transparency, traceability and efficiency to help commercialise \& scale
RUBISKO smoothens operations in an ever-turbulent industry, scales production more effectively \& rapidly, and enables profitability using modular software for emerging agriculture companies. We will become their central source of truth offering key insights and optimisations through data activation and you can see some of our work at rubisko.co.uk. We are generating organic revenue, and have established our niche within the seaweed, vertical, greenhouse, and insect farming industries. Looking ahead we're:
Moving towards £1m ARR
Extending our production management platform into ML-powered actionables
Becoming the de-facto software layer for emerging agriculture
Building durable and reliable software that can be trusted upon
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The Role / You'll be our lead engineer and dynamo - thriving with the ebbs and flows of the changing nature of the work we do and taking ownership of the way we build software
You'll be our second team member. If that excites, rather than scares, you - keep reading.
After onboarding, you'll move quickly to understand and tinker with our modular software system and existing development pipleine, finding its limits and discovering its capabilities. Then, you'll take ownership of these and the tech stack and strategically reinvent it for more efficient, productive and reliable software production for the long term, leveraging key technologies already in your skillset whilst expanding it with new ones discovered through your continuous curiosity about software and machine learning (ML).
You'll integrate ML into the workflow and the software we build where approporiate. Working closely with the CEO, both inperson and remotely, you will reactively build software around customer needs through a translation layer (that you'll also build) that takes customer requirements and parses them from spec -\> build -\> deployment. You'll lead and ultimately be accountable for product maintenance, stability, scalability and security. You'll churn out features at speed and iteratively.
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About You
We don't care about your CV or degree. We care about your mindset:
Curious / You're always reading, commenting and tinkering with new technolgoies. You've always got a side project to play around with.
Loves People \& Nature / You deeply empathise with the impact food has on our ecosystems and how it unites our communities.
In-Person Bias / We average two days per week in person rotating between Liverpool Lime Street, Sevenoaks and Oxted
Proactive Builder / Not satisfied with just taking the iniative, you thrive in extruding new products and realities from ambiguity and from scratch
Imaginative / You draw from a variety of experiences to scrappily build novel features at speed
Open to Debate / You prefer working in partnerships, not heirachies, where you proactively take responsibility with others, and communicate in good faith
Adaptable / You unlearn old systems when a superior one is available
You have the following skills:
No-code platforms (e.g. Bubble)
Python and related web technologies (e.g. Flask, SocketIO)
Full Stack Web (HTML, CSS, JS, etc)
Fluent in translating customer needs into software features
Plain-Speaking (i.e. avoid jargon, context-specific communication)
LLM assisted prgoramming (e.g. Codex, Opus, Gemini, etc)
ML Model Training and Deployment (e.g. Tensorflow)
Writing thorough, idiot-proof documentation
Agricultural operations (Bonus)
Do not apply if:
You want a predictable structure or comfortable corporation environment
You prefer slow, rigid, predictable work patterns
You dislike ambiguity or wearing many hats
You want to be told what to do
You don't like meeting in person
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Compensation
5-15% meaningful equity
Market-rate salary flexible to situation
£250 annual learning stipend
You'll help create the upsides here
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £25,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London E1 6EG