Lead Full-stack Developer

Agricool has developed a solution to produce healthy fruits and vegetables in the heart of cities. Strawberries, aromatic herbs, salads, all produced locally, without pesticides, and of good quality. This is a new alternative for city dwellers!

Agricool has a mission: to accelerate the global transformation towards healthy, tasty and responsible food.

Their solution: Reuse maritime containers to create urban farms making it possible to produce fruit and vegetables as close as possible to city dwellers.

Where are they at? Agricool offers local, pesticide-free products presented to consumers in PLA packaging (a material made from corn). The brand is now available in more than 60 stores in Paris and aims to triple this volume by the end of 2021. Tomorrow, other cultures will also expand the range and the company will gradually be able to develop in the rest of the world. The Agricool adventure started in 2015. They are now 80 and have already raised 37 million euros. It is one of the European pillars of #FoodTech and # AgTech.

The team
You will be joining a small, international team of 3 softwares developers with diverse backgrounds and experiences, building excellent products for people and for plants.

Within the larger “Tech & Ops” umbrella of Agricool (composed of Agronomy, Engineering, Operation and Software team) you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of a unique technological solution at the crossing of hardware, software and living organisms.

Our stack

We believe in the “right tool for the job”: we’re not dogmatic, and recognize that different sets of problems require different technical solutions. With this in mind, we’re trying to sustain a level of coherence in the ecosystems we are working with. You’ll find in our stack of user-centered products: the serverless architecture (AWS lambda, API gateway, SQS), Node.js, Typescript, Golang, Postgres, Prometheus, Ionic, React … and more! You can find out more on our stackshare page.

Your role

As a Lead Full-Stack Developer, you will contribute to our portfolio of user-centered software products. your main mission will be to :

• Leading the implementation, maintenance and testing strategy of the Agricool software stack
• Lead the back and front-end development on the global scope of Agricool software
• Design and build the features required to support upcoming use cases and growth of the farming infrastructure
• Curate the evolutions of the technology stack and tools with the team

Preferred experience

• Experience in developing, releasing, and maintaining complex web front-end and back-end services, at least 5 years of experience
• A strong knowledge of at least one JavaScript front-end web framework
• You have knowledge of Go and gRPC and microservice architectures
• Passion about writing high-quality, maintainable and robust code
• Doer DNA & Hacker spirit: you love technical challenges and to find creative ways to solve problems under short timeframes
• Product Builder & Lover : UX has the same importance than maintaining a high quality code base