Sr Software Engineer (Model Solutions)

Climate, LLC is modernizing the agriculture industry with a platform and products that are helping the world’s farmers sustainably increase productivity with digital tools. We are building a Digital Farming Platform to provide data and science-backed solutions to farmers and partners on a worldwide scale. 

We are looking for motivated and innovative software engineers who want to be part of this fundamental shift in how we feed the world. We are just beginning on this journey and the possibilities for change and innovation are substantial.

What You Will Do:

You will work with scientists, data engineers, and product managers to design and implement highly scalable, data-intensive systems, microservices, APIs, and SDKs. 

You will take data-driven models developed by our Science team and prepare them to run on our Digital Farming Platform. You will interact with our Data Acquisition and Data Architecture teams to define the data schemas to support these models. You will design CICD pipelines to run and validate these models against large volumes of data. You will interact with our Cloud Engineering team to deploy onto our AWS cloud platform. You will support and guide other teams (within Climate and external partners) that are consuming our APIs and services. You will design and implement tooling that allows the science team to efficiently develop and test new models on our platform.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in software related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Software engineering work experience using a functional or object-oriented language. Solid foundational knowledge of CS fundamentals and best practices for code and architecture. 
• Python. Scala.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, engineering diagrams, and listening skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience designing and implementing robust and scalable backend services, e.g., RESTful APIs, microservices, efficient data processing algorithms, messaging paradigms, middleware, and persistent stores (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience working with AWS or other public Cloud platforms
• Experience with building real-life large-scale data science projects.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and persistence stores
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, etc.) (strong plus)
• Willingness to learn and use other programming languages.

What We Offer: 

Our teams are composed of industry experts, top scientists, and talented engineers. The environment is extremely engaging and fast-paced, with dozens of specialties coming together to provide the best possible products and experiences for our customers.

We provide competitive salaries and some of the best perks in the industry, including:

• Superb medical, dental, vision, life, disability benefits, and a 401k matching program
• A stocked kitchen with a large assortment of snacks & drinks to get you through the day
• Encouragement to get out of the office and into the field with agents and farmers to see first-hand how our products are being used
• We take part and offer various workshops, conferences, meet-up groups, tech-talks, and hackathons to encourage participation and growth in both community involvement and career development

We also hinge our cultural DNA on these five values:

• Inspire one another
• Innovate in all we do
• Leave a mark on the world
• Find the possible in the impossible
• Be direct and transparent

Learn more about our team and our mission:

Climate, LLC - The Technology Behind Making A Difference

https://youtu.be/c5TgbpE9UBI or visit https://climate.com/careers

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Climate, LLC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@climate.com