Senior Software Engineer, Carbon-Sustainability • Passion Placement

United States

About Indigo

Indigo Ag is a mission-driven company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet. We innovate across a breadth of technology and science disciplines to help enhance agriculture’s long-term sustainability and profitability and mitigate the climate crisis. We seek to positively impact the world through the digital and biological solutions we bring to the market, creating a more resilient earth, healthier economies, and thriving communities. Our people build partnerships, explore the science, and engineer the technology to help grow the future of sustainable agriculture. The only way to achieve it is through a unique combination of expertise – from Fortune 500 to academia, soil science and agriculture, to tech start-ups.

Indigo develops biological and digital technologies that improve grower profitability, environmental sustainability, and consumer health. Carbon by Indigo is a scientifically backed program that provides growers with a new revenue stream in the form of verified agricultural carbon credits. Increased soil organic matter or reduced greenhouse gas emissions from practices, such as adding cover crops or reducing tillage, can generate verified carbon credits, which are increasingly in demand by buyers. These credits can then be sold for profit by growers. As a Staff Backend Software Engineer on the Data Collection team, it is your job to participate in the development, scale, and maintenance of a data ingest pipeline powering our data science applications.

Our mission is unique, and therefore our teams are too. From multigenerational farming experts to product experience experts to cutting-edge technologists, our uniqueness can be owed to the individuals who make up our teams. Connected by a common vision and empowered by diversity, we aren’t an ordinary company, and neither are you. Join Indigo in cultivating a healthier planet.

You will be working on:

Build well-documented and maintainable critical features within our fledgling data collection pipeline

Design reliable and high-quality backend systems in the cloud, architecting data flow and APIs to support field scale

Communicate risks and issues to stakeholders and work together to find a path forward

Recognize impediments to our efficiency, propose, and implement solutions.

You have:

Understands how to build high-throughput APIs and data processing pipelines

Understands how to design flexible, structured data stores

Understands how to build reliable and maintainable systems in a cloud environment

Able to research and propose new technologies or software patterns to make improvements

Evangelizes modern software engineering practices, and can speak to the pros and cons of approaches such as microservices vs. monoliths, mono vs. shared repos, containers vs. VMs

Passion for Indigo’s mission and values

Can confidently share their technical opinion amongst peers and engineering leadership as well as constructively challenge the opinions of others

Thrives in a fast-paced environment

You’ve been building backend software professionally for 4+ years with a focus on developing data collection and transformation pipelines

You have deep experience in one or more modern programming languages (We work primarily in Python, but alternate experience is acceptable)

Experienced designing APIs, including versioning, isolation and microservices (REST or GraphQL)

Demonstrated expertise with implementing a variety of datastores at scale (e.g. Relational, Key/Value, Graph, Document)

Experience implementing monitoring, logging and profiling best practices for distributed systems

Experience designing and documenting internal and external APIs leveraging a documentation framework (e.g. Apiary, Swagger)

Experience with deployments to cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker)

Experience with version control (e.g. git, gitlab)

Can create fast, reliable, testable and documented code that others can understand

You can lead technical architecture discussions and can achieve timely consensus regarding technical decisions within your team

You bring a positive attitude, a sense of humor, and self awareness

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At Indigo, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national, social or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, marital status, family or parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, family medical history or genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Indigo believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion among our team members are critical to our success. We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

If you’re applying for a job in the U.S. and need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email talent@indigoag.com and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.