Backend Developer

Salary Competitive

With the mission to eliminate waste in farming, Vultus offers satellite based fertiliser prescriptions. This helps farmers save 30% of fertilizers, leading to improved sustainability and production. Currently, we reach out to the equivalent of triple Sweden’s growing area, working across Europe and Asia. Within this customer base, we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 per year, about the same as Maltas’ yearly emissions.


Team

Our team currently consists of 16 employees from 9 countries. Over half of the team is working with software and remote sensing research, others work with business and management. The team is diverse, multidisciplinary and most of all, a warm group of compassionate members on a mission to eliminate waste in farming. We wish to continue fostering a strong culture of compassion and trust, therefore, we will prioritize applicants that fit us culturally. This is reflected in our values of compassion and collaboration, open mindedness, accountability and getting shit done. The dev team works in git, following agile practices with weekly sprints.

 

The position

Vultus is developing a world class solution to eliminate waste in farming. Utilizing modern microservices architecture on cloud computing environment, we are deploying our remote sensing and agronomy research findings at a large scale. As a part of the development team, you will be involved in the overall application development. The scope of this position is to aid in the development and maintenance of the code, ensuring its compatibility with the front end. This will be done based upon on the output criteria communicated by the research team.

 

Responsibilities

  • Design and development of new adaptors, functionality and products

  • Code review, debugging and maintenance

  • Scaling of cloud applications

  • Improve and enhance our methods, tools and suggest new product paths

  • Collaborate with research team, tester and devops

 

Qualifications

  • Masters Degree in computer science or equivalent

  • Two years experience as a Software Engineer or similar role

  • Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

  • Experience with software design and development of the Business logics based on research outputs.

  • Good coding experience (e.g. Node JS, Python, C, C++, Java)

 

Desired skills

  • Ability to learn new languages and technologies

  • Python, NodeJS, C, C++, Java

  • Git, Docker, AWS

  • Preferably experience in image data processing

  • Preferably some machine learning/data science experience

 

Benefits

  • Working with an international team

  • Meaningful and impactful mission addressing a global environmental problem

  • Equity compensation

  • Many responsibilities and opportunities to develop

  • Autonomous work and large amounts of freedom

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

Maternity / paternity leave
Maternity / paternity leave

Kids are the future, go spend time with them.

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Vultus

With the mission to eliminate waste in farming, Vultus offers satellite based fertiliser prescriptions. This helps farmers save 30% of fertilizers and increase their yields between 3-5%, leading to improved sustainability and production. Currently, we reach out to the equivalent of triple Sweden’s growing area, working across Europe and Asia.

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