Full-Stack Engineer, Backend-focused

Description

In a world increasingly impacted by climate change, pollution, and population growth, conventional production of fresh/fruiting vegetables is unsustainable. Compared to field production, greenhouse hydroponic methods use 90% less water, increase yields, reduce food waste, use fewer pesticides, eliminate fertilizer runoff, and allow crops to be grown locally. However, greenhouse producers make up only a small part of today’s market due to high capital/labor costs and operational complexity. To close this gap, Hippo Harvest uses new methods of hydroponics, robotics, and machine intelligence to re-imagine greenhouses and build the sustainable, economical, and scalable production systems of the future.

You Will

• Own significant parts of Hippo’s backend systems, particularly those around storing and reading data

• Work closely with our front-end engineers, and occasionally flex into front-end engineering, particularly for data-heavy projects

• Be a thought partner for our infrastructure/dev-ops team, particularly around data infrastructure, testing, and deploying back-end systems

• Collaborate with the robotics engineers, particularly around data-driven decision-making systems, and systems that require user input or interaction

• Partner with our plant science, machine learning, commercial, and operational teams, particularly around data use cases 

You Have

• 5+ years of experience working with complex, data-centric backend systems

• Experience designing and implementing backend APIs (REST, GraphQL)

• Substantial experience with React (or similar frontend framework) and TypeScript, with experience deploying and maintaining Node.js backends

• Expertise in both SQL and ORM methods of database interaction, as well as database architecture, schema management, and administration 

• Proficiency in Python and at least one compiled language (bonus points if that includes Rust)  

• Nice-to-haves include experience with one or more of FastAPI, Pydantic, Kubernetes / Microservice Design, ArgoCD, MLOps, or GitHub actions (or similar CI/CD systems) 

• Robotics and/or machine learning experience is useful, but not necessary 

We Offer

• An exciting and fun work environment where your contributions will make a true difference

• A hybrid work environment, with 1 day a week in person at our Pescadero facility, and 4 days a week working from home

• Competitive salary from $150,000 - $195,000 based on level

• Full benefits package including six weeks of paid vacation, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, twelve weeks of paid parental leave, 401k with company match, company stock options

Salary

$150,000 - $195,000 per year

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