Design and maintain software solutions for a digital grain trading platform, collaborating closely with various teams while driving engineering excellence.
Company Overview
Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN®) is a pioneering digital marketplace and farmer-to-farmer network dedicated to empowering family farmers globally while promoting sustainable agriculture. With over 117,000 members, FBN's Farmers First® promise unites growers and ranchers in their quest to maximize profitability and increase food production. FBN leverages data, AI and direct-to-farm delivery to simplify the agricultural supply chain, boosting convenience and transparency, reducing farm input costs, enhancing access to financing and services, and providing personalized farm insights. Its Gradable® joint-venture helps thousands of farmers adopt and earn rewards for regenerative practices while simplifying the access of regenerative products for the world’s leading food companies and grain buyers.
FBN is pioneering digital tools in the agriculture space. We are building the leading traceability marketplace, connecting farmers with markets that most value their harvest. In this role, you will:
- design, build and maintain high-quality software solutions to real-world problems
- architect and implement back-end systems for a groundbreaking digital grain trading and sustainability platform
- own full feature sets and significant portions of the codebase
- collaborate closely with product management, data science, and business leaders
- continue to push your engineering skills through complex projects and collaborations with highly experienced engineers
The Person
You are the right person for this role if you have a passion for building robust and scalable systems that tame complex problems, with an appreciation for quality and testability. Additionally, you should have:
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- excellent computer science skills
- strong track record and architectural skills for building complex backend systems
- deep expertise in a programming language such as Python / Go / Java / C++, etc
- relational database experience (e.g.: Postgres, MySQL)
- exposure to DevOps (AWS)
- experience with latest LLM-powered coding tools and agents
The following represents FBN's reasonable estimate of the US national average base salary range for this role based on market data and placement of internal employees: $135,900-$166,000. This salary range may vary based on geography and the higher cost of labor in some metropolitan areas.
Beyond Base Pay, FBN also offers all full-time/permanent employees competitive total compensation packages that include equity compensation (dependent upon job level), incentive/bonus plans (dependent upon position), paid holidays plus an additional floating holiday, work flexibility including paid time off and remote work if your role is eligible, parental leave, benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, short & long term disability, life insurance, 401k, HSA employer contributions, and more.
FBN is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. FBN considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
We participate in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program here.
FBN is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known limitations for qualified applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application process. If you need assistance to complete this form or participate in an interview, please let us know.
Top Skills
AWS
C++
Go
Java
MySQL
Postgres
Python
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