Software Engineer

Job Description

About Babylon:

Babylon Micro-Farms provides an indoor farming service to help businesses grow fresh produce all year round. Our farms are powered by Babylon’s proprietary IoT technology that makes it easier than ever before to grow fresh food. Our farms grow the highest quality, most nutritious produce on the market. We do so using 90% less water than conventional farming without the use of any pesticides or harmful chemicals. We eliminate barriers to entry for people to begin sourcing their produce sustainably using our on-site Micro-Farms.

With this new hire, the software team will be three people, dynamic individuals responsible for an IoT firmware application, mobile app, and supporting backend.

Software Engineer Job Description:

We are looking for a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer (depending on experience level) who is primarily experienced with back-end development, and who is versatile, dynamic, and interested in supporting on the front-end, in firmware, and in data visualization. You’ll work on many different types of projects and work collaboratively with many others at the company, such as hardware engineers, customer success, horticulturists, etc.

Audit and help scale our existing AWS/ECS-hosted, Django backend

Build new functionality and expand APIs to increase our visibility into our fleet of farms, and improve our customers’ experience

Help to identify software priorities and goals by talking to stakeholders at Babylon and/or customers

Support the development of our React Native Mobile app, which is used to communicate required farming actions to our customers and farm operators

Support the development and maintenance of our embedded python firmware application

Support the development and maintenance of our fleet visualization and dashboard application

Support the maintenance and improvement of our DevOps infrastructure

Execute the full software development life cycle (SDLC)

Evaluate user feedback

Support and engage with a light sprint-style team structure

Ensure procedural improvements after problems occur

Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions to present to other developers and other teams

Requirements:

4-10+ years relevant industry software experience

4-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

Cloud, docker, AWS experience

Experience with test-driven development

Experience with relational databases (e.g MySQL)

Strong knowledge of developing in Python

Git

Nice to haves:

Working knowledge of firmware, embedded systems, sensors

Experience with observability

Experience with security practices across cloud, mobile, and web

Experience with agile development

Experience in high growth, IoT company

Experience in B2B SaaS

Desired Skills and Traits:

Extreme ownership and self-motivation. Passion for plants, growing, sustainability, and indoor agriculture, appreciation for customer success, tech-savvy, strong communication skills, ability to work independently and move projects forward, desire to work in a very fast paced environment, desire for growth and responsibility.

Benefits and Compensation:

Salary commensurate with experience level, expected $80-130k

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k), with no employer match currently

This role is expected to be in the office 3-5 days per weekCompany Description

Babylon Micro-Farms is changing the future of farming with its environmentally friendly, software-enabled hydroponic farms. We serve commercial dining operators nationwide, from universities to hospitals to senior living communities, providing them with access to 40+ crops, top-notch training/support, and a mobile app to help them grow fresh, nutritious produce on-site. Babylon is a high-growth, early-stage company based in the Scott’s Addition neighborhood of Richmond, VA.