Full Stack Front-End Developer

Position: Full Stack Front-End Developer

AgTools Company Background

Agtools provides First Mile MARKET data across the globe of over 500 commodities in real time for farmers, buyers, and others on the food supply chain to execute better planting, harvesting, forecasting improving financial outcomes, lower risks, and lower CO2 impact. With over 76 variables impacting supply chain across the globe, Agtools provides data and algorithms at billion transactions per second, allowing buyers and farmers to understand future impacts to contracts and CO2/SO2.

Every day we lose over 4900 truckloads of food from farms to distribution centers in the USA, 69000 worldwide and growing! Agriculture & Food Supply Chain (AFSC) is fragmented with many contributors and a large geographic reach. Each link has limited market intelligence visibility from farms to distribution centers locally and across the world. The disconnection leads to production & consumption mismatches, food waste, & unnecessary financial, human expenditure, and CO2 impact.

Who You Are:

We're looking for a Full Stack Front-End developer to work on our web application development lifecycle tools, empowering our researchers and engineers to build out the next generation of web applications that will drive web application development and data engineering at Agtools Inc. You are looking to make a strong impact with a company with a strong mission – Reducing waste in the supply chain in agriculture while impacting positively farmers. You’ve spent time within the Agricultural industry understanding the complexities in the supply chain to get food to table. You are a self-starter who aligns to project deadlines, a critical thinker, and a problem solver.

You will help us build a world-class continuous integration and delivery automation platform for teams working on-site and remotely with datasets with billions of records. This team will build new features and maintain current tools, focusing on delivering UX and user-centric solutions that solve tough and interesting problems in the supply chain intelligence of the food industry.

You will be developing well-architected solutions that take full advantage of our existing frameworks and libraries while incorporating new technologies, and best practices and integrating with a multitude of cloud and SaaS platforms as needed. We are looking for someone with a passion for the web and its fast-moving ecosystem, that would also like to expand their skills.

Responsibilities

Develop responsive and elegant design functionality with an eye toward streamlined UX, using HTML, Vue, and SCSS, as well as client and server-side Nginx/Django applications.
Collaborate with a distributed, agile team of developers, product owners, QA, and designers.
Participate in conversations about the design and architecture of our codebases, upcoming new builds, and code refactors.
Research new technologies and approaches to solve problems and improve existing systems.
Participate in and lead knowledge-sharing sessions.
Help track and address technical debt
Make meaningful contributions to code reviews to ensure quality.
Be able to migrate from legacy platform to new cloud-based platform.
Be able to apply agricultural knowledge to code
Use documentation technology built for developers (ie GitLab or GitHub)
Incorporate user feedback for enhancements to platform

Qualifications

4+ years in a full-stack web development position
Demonstrable proficiency with Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Demonstrable proficiency with NoSQL, RDBMS, MongoDB 4.x or higher, Redis, PostgreSQL 12.x or higher
Experience with relevant frameworks for the client (Vue, React, Django) and Nginx server
Experience working with APIs and REST-ful services
Comfortable using the tools of modern collaborative Agile+Scrum SDLC, including Git, Jira, etc
Experience working with Cloud vendors such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
Experience working with Nginx, Django, Docker, UWSGI
Preferred Experience with using Linux distributions for web application development
Able to troubleshoot complex issues independently and seek input from the team when stuck Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field or foreign equivalent
High level of attention to detail
Must be a critical thinker with a strong ability to problem solving.
Must have strong analytical skills to analyze metrics and create reports.
Must have research interest and skills to locate, analyze and recommend course of action based on available data and information.
Occasional travel may be required
Must be fully bilingual in English and Spanish, with mastering of verbal and written English and Spanish
Intermediate knowledge of productivity tools such as Excel (electronic spreadsheets), Word (word processing) and PowerPoint (presentations platform)
Experience in the food and agricultural industries preferred but not required
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate internally with team

Salary Requirements:

All based on experience and capability.

What sets us apart:

We are looking to build a team that wants to be a part of something bigger, being part of a revolution that will reduce agricultural waste and drive efficiency in our supply chain. With that, we are offering an annual paid trip to all our team-members to countries that we have relationships with their farmers, their farming operations and their region. What’s better, we pay all expenses for you AND a companion for 2 full weeks! Hear their stories, understand their drive, the problems they face, and their recommendations.

2024 – Colombia-Medellín (coffee, avocados, limes)
2025 Perú – Machu Pichu (potatoes, soy, corn);
2026 Honduras – (Okra, Eggplant;)
2027; El Salvador (TBD)

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