Position Overview:
The Climate Corporation is revolutionizing the agriculture industry with a platform and products that are helping the world’s farmers sustainably increase productivity with digital tools.  We are looking for an individual to lead and grow a team of experienced and talented engineers that will take the existing services and APIs that provide the solid foundation for Climate’s products and help transition them into a platform that can serve as the basis for an entire ecosystem of products and services throughout the agriculture industry.  This role is a unique opportunity to leverage Climate’s powerful cloud services, massive depth of data, and cutting edge scientific modeling to deliver a disruptive platform that makes a real world difference.

What You Will Do:

• Lead, grow, and inspire a talented team of engineers focused on building and managing core backend services that power the Climate platform
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering on the next generation of the industry-leading agriculture platform
• Fearlessly drive an efficient and effective Agile software development process to manage a deep backlog and launch iteratively developed products
• Motivate and provide necessary tools for engineers to work with the confidence to create simple solutions to complex problems
• Ensure stability of Climate’s product through robust, scalable and fault tolerant software development practices
• Help your team meet their goals and strive to be their best
• Act as an active source of engineering talent and work with recruiting teams to build and scale the future of engineering at The Climate Corporation
• Align the team’s goals and objectives towards the “Bigger Picture” of the Climate Corporation
• Represent Climate and present at local Meetups, User Groups and Conferences

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of demonstrated ability to grow and lead a team of engineers in a fast paced startup environment
• 5+ years hands-on experience developing robust back-end services used by multiple client platforms using Agile, Scrum, Kanban or similar development/management practices
• Ability to architect and have a hand in the design and code review processes for consumer-facing applications

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 2 years experience with deployment in large cloud-based distributed environments
• At least 2 years experience working with persistence store (Relational or Nonrelational)
• Knowledge of functional programming (Strong Plus)
• Experience with compiled JVM language (Java, Scala, Clojure) (Strong Plus)
• Experience with AWS or similar distributed architecture

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