Backend Engineer, Connecterra
Helping farmers streamline operations
Job no longer available
Helping farmers streamline operations
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To train an Artificial Intelligence to learn how to farm, so we can empower farmers of all sizes to increase productivity of their farms, while reducing the impact of farming on the planet.
Role
Who you are
- Resourceful, proactive, and constructive when exploring uncharted territory or dealing with uncertainty,
- A team player who challenges assumptions, identifies blind spots, and constantly levels up their craft,
- Thriving in a fast-paced startup environment where things can change frequently and new challenges come up unexpectedly,
- Thirst for knowledge, a can-do attitude with a willingness to learn from mistakes,
- You have 3+ years of professional experience in a Backend or Data Engineering role and are proficient in C# and/or Python,
- You love designing and developing RESTful APIs, Cloud-based microservices and database structures in a way that is reliable, scalable and maintainable
What the job involves
- This position requires a mix of software and data pipeline experimentation, development, testing, monitoring and bug fixing, providing a great opportunity for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and is eager to take on challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. There's never a dull day!
- You'll get to work closely with colleagues across Data Science, Engineering, and Product to create and deliver high-quality software that improves the lives of farmers and their advisors
- Have a direct impact on solving problems for dairy farmers and other stakeholders in the dairy industry
- Move fast and iterate often, learning along the way
- Work as a team to find the best approaches and solutions to our challenges together
- Level-up your craft via design discussions, code reviews and pair programming, participating in an environment of collaboration and innovation
- Keep identifying and improving parts of our platform to make them more robust and scalable
- Develop, deploy, and maintain back-end services and APIs, for both internal and external use
- Work on data pipelines bringing together the data from different farm systems and machines around the world that feed into our advanced analytics platform, while ensuring high data quality
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Farming practices need to change to help the world become more sustainable, while also keeping up to date with modern technological advances. This is where Connecterra is coming in. They are looking to increase farmers' productivity and reduce the impact of farming on the planet.
In order to do this, Connecterra has developed Ida. This uses sensors and Artificial Intelligence to turn raw data into insight-driven efficiencies for the benefit of people, companies, and the natural habitats in which they operate.
The Amsterdam-based company has teams in the United States & New Zealand, and a product presence in 18 countries. They are focused on forming strategic partnerships with industry leaders as part of expanding access to AI technology for farms around the globe.
Insights
-29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2020
$8.5m
SERIES B
Jan 2019
$2.8m
GRANT
Total funding: $19.8m
Company values
- Fearless: We’re a young company of radical thinkers. We’re unafraid to challenge, disrupt and experiments to free technology as a force for good in the real world
- Innovative: We never stand still. We’re continuously innovating at the forefront of current technological thinking to pioneer new solutions in support of progress
- Human: We always seek to power human intelligence, never replace it. We put the well-being of farmers, communities and the environments in which they work, first
Company HQ
Buiksloterham, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founders
Yasir Khokhar
(CEO)Yasir Khokhar is Founder and CEO of Connecterra. Prior to founding Connecterra, Yasir held various roles with Microsoft across technology and business management.
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