Backend Software Engineer, Silo
$140-180k
Outside United States compensation varies
More information about location
Capital and technology solutions for the food supply chain
Job no longer available
Capital and technology solutions for the food supply chain
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-180k
Outside United States compensation varies
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Silo is on a mission to revolutionize the wholesale produce supply chain through technology.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience in software development with a focus on high-availability systems
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Experience with Postgres and other major database solutions
- An entrepreneurial spirit, evidenced by personal projects or startup experience
- Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced, startup environment
- Located in North America, ready to collaborate with a distributed team
Desirable
- Prior experience with Go, especially at scale. While not a requirement, this expertise is highly valued as we scale our solutions
- Experience in REST- or GraphQL-based API design
- Familiarity with SQL, Postgres DB performance optimization
- A keen sense for good product design
What the job involves
- Collaborate on software projects with product designers and frontend engineers (and even our end-users if you’d like!)
- Implement efficient and robust algorithms for product features
- Develop, release, and maintain back-end services and/or infrastructure
- Work with frontend engineers to design flexible APIs
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
- Our back-end is currently written in Go and connected to a Postgres database, all deployed on AWS through Kubernetes
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
The wholesale food industry in the US is huge, but it remains riddled with inefficiencies, resulting in huge quantities of food and resources being wasted every year. Silo sets out to solve this problem, with AI-powered supply and demand software and industry-tailored financing.
Silo's software platform features tools that forecast supply and demand, automate operations, and manage farm-to-wholesaler relationships, all presented through easy-to-access, cloud-based software. It also supplies cost effective and discreet access to working capital that is made to be built-in to the existing operations of produce businesses.
With its unique approach to optimizing the produce food chain (other efforts tend to focus on more efficient farming techniques), Silo stands out as a strong contributor to reducing food waste that operates from its own angle. Recent funding will be used to expand its capital program, on the financing side of the business, in order to offer specialised lending experiences to produce distributors and shippers of a variety of sizes.
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2023
$35m
LATE VC
Jul 2023
$32m
SERIES C
Total funding: $104m
Company benefits
- Company sponsored health insurance
- Wellness and meal stipends
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k)
- Substantial paid parental leave policy
- Flexible schedules
Company HQ
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Ashton Braun
(CEO)Previously on the founding team at Kite.
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