<p>Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets increase their profits. We use agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile technology to help farmers access credit, high-quality farm inputs, and customized advice. Our first product is a customized package of farm inputs, farming advice, and credit delivered to farmers in Kenya.</p>

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Empowering farmers with AI-driven tools for sustainable agriculture in emerging markets.

<div><b>About Apollo Agriculture:</b></div><div>Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to increase their profits and farm more sustainably. Apollo uses artificial intelligence and automated operations to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market. Apollo enables farmers to access the optimized financing, high-quality farm products, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions they need to invest and scale their businesses. Apollo grew paying customers over 2.5x in 2023 to over 200K small-scale farmers in Kenya and Zambia, increasing revenue to nearly $30M with robust unit economics. Apollo partners with key global agriculture companies like Bayer, OCP and Yara, and is backed by Anthemis, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Softbank Vision Fund. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation, Google, Capital One, Revolut, and One Acre Fund.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role:</b></div><div>Apollo is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to join our Amsterdam-based Engineering team and help us develop and improve the technology that drives our operations.</div><div><br></div><div>In this role, you will be implementing practical and pragmatic solutions to real-world problems. Apollo is active in some of the most remote and underserved areas on earth, and we are often required to innovate to handle unusual challenges… truly engineering at the edge! We are a small but motivated team, where everyone has considerable ownership and responsibility.</div><div><br></div><div>In this role, you will work directly with Product, Data Science, and Operations teams to enable the distribution of high quality agricultural inputs to tens of thousands of smallholder farmers annually.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Reporting Lines:</b> This role reports to the Engineering Manager </div><br><br><h3>Your responsibilities: </h3><ul><li>Develop and maintain effective, scalable systems using Scala, Play Framework, and Cats</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of impactful features.</li><li>Embrace a "product engineer" mindset, balancing ideal architecture with the realities of a fast-paced startup environment.</li><li>Mentor peers in software development best practices.</li><li>Be part of an on-call rotation, responding to outages as necessary.</li><li>Actively participate in creating a positive impact on the lives of smallholder farmers through technology.</li></ul><h3>You: </h3><ul><li>Are excited about the mission of transforming the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.</li><li>Are a creative problem solver, and are excited to innovate where technology doesn’t work as usual. Our challenges include poor or non-existent cell phone coverage, limited quality mobile phone hardware, and so on.</li><li>Have a solid background in writing software at scale, preferably using Scala or another high-level, statically typed language. This typically means you have 5+ years of professional software development experience at a fast growing technology company.</li><li>Have knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals, preferably AWS.</li><li>Have production experience with SQL databases including data modeling, writing performant queries, etc.</li><li>Are an exceptional writer and communicator. You can turn technical challenges and solutions into digestible technical documents and proposals to seek alignment and enable efficient technical decision making.</li><li>Are a tireless problem solver who can roll up your sleeves to tackle whatever challenges need urgent attention, no matter when they arise. You have a “whatever it takes” attitude and are comfortable engaging peers across different teams to get the job done.</li></ul><h3>We: </h3><ul><li>Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers. </li><li>Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise. </li><li>Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve. </li><li>Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree. </li><li>Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth. </li><li>Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment. </li><li>Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects. </li><li>Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect. </li><li>Are excited to hear from you!</li></ul><br><div><b>At Apollo Agriculture, we are building an inclusive and supportive work environment where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage female candidates to apply to this position. </b></div><div><br></div>

Software Engineer

<div><b>About Apollo Agriculture: </b></div><div>Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to increase their profits and farm more sustainably. Apollo uses artificial intelligence and automated operations to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market. Apollo enables farmers to access the optimized financing, high-quality farm products, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions they need to invest and scale their businesses. Apollo grew paying customers over 2.5x in 2023 to over 200K small-scale farmers in Kenya and Zambia, increasing revenue to nearly $30M with robust unit economics. Apollo partners with key global agriculture companies like Bayer, OCP and Yara, and is backed by Anthemis, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Softbank Vision Fund. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation, Google, Capital One, Revolut, and One Acre Fund.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role: </b></div><div>Apollo is seeking an exceptional Machine Learning Engineer to join our Tech team and help us develop predictive Machine Learning models that power our credit decisioning, fraud prevention and farming advisory capabilities.</div><div><br></div><div>In this role, you will have the opportunity to combine different data sources like survey data, satellite imagery, weather forecasts and more to improve the capabilities and accuracy of our machine learning models to enhance our different business processes and improve the experience of our customers through different parts of their journey. You will work across different parts of our business and in collaboration with our Product &amp; Engineering and Credit teams to achieve these goals.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a hands-on role which requires deep knowledge of developing models in Python, deploying and operating them in production. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Reporting Lines:</b> This role reports to the Engineering Manager. </div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><ul><li>Build Machine Learning models to improve key areas of our product and customer lifecycle.</li><li>Design, develop and deploy systems at scale to handle our growing demand.</li><li>Maintain and evolve our cloud-based ML Platform, which we use for feature engineering, model development and model training in production.</li><li>Propose and evaluate potential usage of ML model across Apollo.</li><li>Mentor other engineers and peers across the organization on how to apply machine learning to improve our product.</li><li>Collaborate with our engineering, product and credit teams to evolve our credit &amp; fraud decision and advisory capabilities.</li></ul><h3>You: </h3><ul><li>Are excited about the mission of transforming the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.</li><li>Are a creative problem solver and excited to solve problems where technology doesn’t work as usual. Imagine challenges like poor or non-existent cell phone coverage, limited quality mobile phone hardware and limited demographic and weather datasets, and so on.</li><li>Have experience as a ML Engineer, Data Scientist or similar role, developing and maintaining ML Platforms and Model Pipelines. This includes understanding best practices on how to establish a model baseline, address concept drift, and how to develop, deploy, and continuously monitor/improve a productionized machine learning application. This typically means you have 3+ years of experience in such a role.</li><li>Have experience writing software at scale in any programming language such as Python, Java, Golang or Scala. This typically means you have 5+ years of professional software development experience at a fast growing technology company.</li><li>Have Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals, including 1+ years working on AWS cloud-based infrastructure and experience with technologies such as ECS and Sagemaker to to build, train, and deploy ML models at scale</li><li>Are an exceptional writer and communicator. You can turn technical challenges and solutions into digestible technical documents and proposals to seek alignment and enable efficient technical decision making</li><li>Are a tireless problem solver who can roll up your sleeves to tackle whatever challenges need urgent attention, no matter when they arise. You have a “whatever it takes” attitude and are comfortable managing peers across different teams to get the job done.</li></ul><h3>We: </h3><ul><li>Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers. </li><li>Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise. </li><li>Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve. </li><li>Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree. </li><li>Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth. </li><li>Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment. </li><li>Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects. </li><li>Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect. </li><li>Are excited to hear from you!</li></ul><br><div><b>At Apollo Agriculture, we are building an inclusive and supportive work environment where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage female candidates to apply to this position</b></div><div><br></div>

Machine Learning Engineer

<div><b style="font-size:16px;">About Apollo Agriculture: </b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to increase their profits and farm more sustainably. Apollo uses artificial intelligence and automated operations to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market. Apollo enables farmers to access the optimized financing, high-quality farm products, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions they need to invest and scale their businesses. Apollo grew paying customers over 2.5x in 2023 to over 200K small-scale farmers in Kenya and Zambia, increasing revenue to nearly $30M with robust unit economics. Apollo partners with key global agriculture companies like Bayer, OCP and Yara, and is backed by Anthemis, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Softbank Vision Fund. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation, Google, Capital One, Revolut, and One Acre Fund.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:16px;">About the Role:</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">We are seeking a dynamic agronomist with strong agricultural expertise to join our team as a Product Assistant (Agronomy) and provide on-the-ground support and training to farmers and field agents. This role focuses on gathering insights directly from the field to improve the effectiveness of our agricultural solutions and delivering accurate, timely, and actionable agronomic and product advice to drive better outcomes for farms and livelihoods. The successful candidate will conduct field visits to train farmers, address product-related concerns, and provide bespoke solutions. They will also contribute to the development of agronomy content and share field insights with the Product Team to support ongoing innovation and improvement.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size:16px;">Contract Duration:</b><span style="font-size:16px;"> 1 Year (with possibility of extension)</span></div><div><b style="font-size:16px;">Reporting Lines: </b><span style="font-size:16px;">This role reports to the Senior Agriculture Product Associate </span></div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><ul><li>Conduct field-based user research to gather insights that inform the design and development of innovative agricultural products tailored to smallholder farmers' needs.</li><li>Develop and deliver agronomic training to field officers.</li><li>Provide expert support to address inquiries from farmers and farmer-facing teams, ensuring clear and actionable advice.</li><li>Utilize resources such as farmer demonstrations and the Learn-ink platform for continuous training and advisory throughout the season.</li><li>Lead research initiatives to evaluate product performance and impact, collecting data and feedback to refine offerings and drive measurable improvements in farmer outcomes</li><li>Treat Apollo’s customers with respect and maintain high standards of customer care while attending to your duties.</li></ul><h3>Requirements: </h3><ul><li>Minimum of a Diploma in Agricultural Sciences from a recognized Institution. A Bachelor’s Degree is an added advantage. </li><li>Over 2 years of experience in farmer advisory, agricultural product sales, or agricultural projects and research, with a strong focus on grassroots-level engagement. </li><li>Knowledgeable and experienced in diverse agricultural farming practices across Kenya</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders.</li><li>Comfortable using Google Docs and Sheets</li><li>Hungry to learn and excited to make an impact through providing advice and developing products for smallholder farmers</li><li>Able to rapidly assimilate new agronomic technical information and transfer the same to relevant teams in easily understandable and simplified form</li><li>An able communicator who can clearly express technical ideas both verbally and in writing in English and Swahili</li><li>A considerate listener who takes the time to deeply understand customers, teammates, and Apollo partners</li></ul><h3>We: </h3><ul><li>Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers. </li><li>Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise. </li><li>Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve. </li><li>Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree. </li><li>Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth. </li><li>Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment. </li><li>Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects. </li><li>Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect. </li><li>Are excited to hear from you!</li></ul><br>

Product Assistant (Agronomy) - Nairobi, Kenya

<div><b>About Apollo Agriculture: </b></div><div><br></div><div>Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to increase their profits and farm more sustainably. Apollo uses artificial intelligence and automated operations to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market. Apollo enables farmers to access the optimized financing, high-quality farm products, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions they need to invest and scale their businesses. Apollo grew paying customers over 2.5x in 2023 to over 200K small-scale farmers in Kenya and Zambia, increasing revenue to nearly $30M with robust unit economics. Apollo partners with key global agriculture companies like Bayer, OCP and Yara, and is backed by Anthemis, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Softbank Vision Fund. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation, Google, Capital One, Revolut, and One Acre Fund.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role: </b></div><div><br></div><div>Are you an aspiring Graphic Designer eager to kick start your career in an exciting new role, where you can contribute creatively to an impactful mission? If you answered yes, then we’d love to meet you! </div><div><br></div><div>We’re looking for a creative and detail-oriented Graphic Designer to join our team. As a junior member of our design team, you’ll support the Head of Creative to bring innovative ideas to life through visual storytelling, creating stunning designs for both digital and print mediums. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to craft engaging visuals that align with our brand’s identity and message. If you’re passionate about design, have a keen eye for detail, and thrive in a dynamic environment, we’d love to see your work!</div><div><br></div><div><b>Location: </b>Nairobi (Hybrid) </div><div><b>Reporting Lines:</b> This role reports to the Head of Creative</div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><ul><li>Fulfill all design and animation requests with creativity and attention to detail.</li><li>Collaborate and innovate by following new briefing and feedback processes to deliver your best work every time.</li><li>Stay organized and efficient by maintaining our streamlined archiving system for easy access and future inspiration.</li><li>Champion the Apollo brand by ensuring the visual identity shines in every project you touch. </li><li>Create primarily print designs with significant involvement in editorial work.</li><li>Drive marketing and advertising initiatives. </li><li>Continually learn and grow by exploring new design techniques and tools with dedicated mentorship and ongoing feedback from the Head of Creative.</li><li>Support the Head of Creative in projects as assigned.</li></ul><h3>Requirements: </h3><ul><li>Diploma/Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, or a related field.</li><li>Strong artistic skills and creativity. </li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills. </li><li>A team player with strong collaboration skills. </li><li>Basic knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), with a desire to learn new tools and techniques.</li><li>Skilled in Premiere Pro and After Effects for video production.</li><li>Open to learning and receptive to feedback.</li><li>Photography and/or videography skills are an added advantage. </li><li>A portfolio showcasing your design skills and creative work (bonus points for including animation or motion design samples).</li><li>Strong time management skills and the ability to handle multiple projects while meeting deadlines.</li></ul><h3>We: </h3><ul><li>Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers. </li><li>Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise. </li><li>Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve. </li><li>Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree. </li><li>Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth. </li><li>Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment. </li><li>Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects. </li><li>Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect. </li><li>Are excited to hear from you!</li></ul><br><div><b>At Apollo Agriculture, we are building an inclusive and supportive work environment where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage female candidates to apply to this position. </b></div><div><br></div>

Junior Graphic Designer

<div><b>About Apollo: </b></div><div><br></div><div>Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to increase their profits and farm more sustainably. Apollo uses artificial intelligence and automated operations to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market. Apollo enables farmers to access the optimized financing, high-quality farm products, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions they need to invest and scale their businesses. Apollo grew paying customers over 2.5x in 2023 to over 200K small-scale farmers in Kenya and Zambia, increasing revenue to nearly $30M with robust unit economics. Apollo partners with key global agriculture companies like Bayer, OCP and Yara, and is backed by Anthemis, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Softbank Vision Fund. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation, Google, Capital One, Revolut, and One Acre Fund.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Role: </b></div><div><br></div><div>Apollo is seeking an experienced Senior Manager - Logistics and Distribution to oversee Apollo’s growing logistics and distribution operations in Zambia. You will be responsible for the on-time, cost effective delivery of goods to our customers, via our network of distribution partners. You will work with and develop your own local team of L&amp;D staff and collaborate with our Logistics experts from Kenya to adapt best-practices to the Zambian market. Your work includes the development of strategy for the L&amp;D function as the operation expands.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Reporting Lines: </b>This role reports to the Country Manager </div><div><b>Contract Type:</b> Permanent </div><div><b>Work Arrangement:</b> Office-based with 40% field travel. </div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities: </h3><ul><li><b>Develop Partnerships with Key Suppliers and Distributors:</b> Develop strong relationships with Apollo’s distribution and logistics partners. Work to maintain an efficient budget through vendor price negotiations, with support from your supervisor.</li><li><b>Ensure the Efficient Movement of Goods:</b> Collaborate with your team to plan and execute the movement of goods from suppliers to destinations (Apollo warehouse, agro-dealers, or farmers), using sales projections and lead times. You’ll build processes, tools, and technology to manage deliveries and maintain stock levels with quality products, while minimizing inventory loss.</li><li><b>Agro-Dealer Recruitment and Management: I</b>dentify and recruit key agro-dealer partners, providing training on Apollo’s systems and tools. Oversee the recruitment, training, and management of agro-dealers, building processes to manage risks and strategies to retain strong partners.</li><li><b>Build and Grow A Robust, Highly Skilled Logistics Team:</b> You will be responsible for recruiting, managing, and motivating a team of logistics professionals. This includes identifying training and development needs, hiring required staff, and providing effective training and mentoring. You will set clear KPIs, offer regular feedback, and manage overall team performance.</li><li><b>Propose innovations to the L&amp;D function:</b> Leverage your expertise in Logistics and Distribution to propose new ideas, formulate process improvements, or bring other innovations to the function in collaboration with your supervisor.</li></ul><h3>Requirements: </h3><ul><li>5+ years in distribution/channel management; supply chain experience is a plus.</li><li>Proven success in fast-paced, startup environments.</li><li>Strong interpersonal, networking, and influencing skills; able to build relationships internally and externally with customers and partners.</li><li>Experience building and maintaining effective supplier relationships and managing supplier performance.</li><li>Skilled in data analysis to enhance customer experience and solve problems.</li><li>Ability to align team goals with business objectives.</li><li>Strong leadership in building and managing a growing team that reflects Apollo’s values.</li><li>Proactive and self-driven to ensure smooth daily operations and consistent customer experience.</li><li>Knowledgeable in market trends and supply chain regulations, with the ability to update practices accordingly.</li><li>Tech-savvy with an ability to improve tools and technologies for better customer experience.</li><li>Expertise in minimizing inventory loss through best practices.</li><li>Proven ability to deliver a seamless customer experience across all touchpoints, driving efficiency, customer satisfaction, and retention.</li></ul><h3>We: </h3><ul><li>Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers. </li><li>Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise. </li><li>Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve. </li><li>Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree. </li><li>Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth. </li><li>Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment. </li><li>Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects. </li><li>Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect. </li><li>Are excited to hear from you!</li></ul><br><div><b style="font-size:10pt;">At Apollo Agriculture, we are building an inclusive and supportive work environment where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage female candidates to apply to this position. </b></div>

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