Do you have the talent to join multi-award winning startup WeFarm?
We are a unique social enterprise providing a vital service for the world's 500 million smallholder farmers who live and work without internet access. This pioneering, peer-to-peer platform enables farmers to access crowdsourced information by SMS, creating social impact on a groundbreaking scale and generating a game-changing data feed through the use of cutting edge AI techniques.
In just one year WeFarm has scaled to more than 72,000 farmers across Kenya, Uganda and Peru, has facilitated over 11.5 million interactions and featured in the FT, Forbes, Wired.co.uk, as well as winning awards from Google's Impact Challenge, The Venture and the European Commission’s Ideas From Europe.
With an ambitious goal to reach 1 million farmers in the next 12 months, we are looking for a talented Developer to join the team and support this growth.
Would you like to change the world and create social impact on a global scale? Do you want every LOC you write to save livelihoods? Are you passionate, ambitious, and driven? Then apply to join the UK's most exciting VC backed tech start-up today!
You will be building a large Clojure based API (Liberator, core.async, Ring, etc) and using a variety AI/NLP/ML tools & techniques to help develop and deliver the service.
You will also work closely with our Data Scientist & Head of Engagement to make sure the value and insight we extract from our traffic is passed on to our partners and users.
You'll be based at WeFarm HQ at the TechHub in London, working closely with the senior leadership team. We are looking for an ambitious, talented individual who knows a Y-combinator isn’t just a SV incubator and there’s more to currying than spices.
- Design and develop stable functional services
- Produce clean well documented idiomatic code
- Comfortable with Git Flow methodology
- Support Head of Engagement to deliver a quality UX to the users of WeFarm
- Service integrity and availability
- Computer science fundamentals, Bash, Regex, Git etc
- Clojure is the primary language of the system so an understanding of this although experience with other functional languages also qualify.
- Imperative languages e.g. PHP, Javascript etc.
- Databases: MySQL & NoSQL/KV store
- An opinion on TDD, BDD, ReplDD & Hammock time
- Know your way around the multifarious AWS services
- Experience with CI/CD deployment pipelines
Some of the technologies we are using include Docker, Travis-CI, ClojureScript, Java interop, PHP (for our legacy system which we're moving away from), graph databases such as Neo4J, frontend technologies such as React and React Native and a grasp of OWASP principles.
- Passionate about the business and social impact
- Quick learner
- Influence without authority
- Hacker mindset with a crafts persons pride
- Pragmatic problem solver
- Strategic, proactive, creative, innovative and collaborative
To apply please submit your CV and cover letter to hello+cljdev@wefarm.org. Feel free to include links to any GitHub projects, your StackOverflow profile or other ways to demonstrate why you're the best person for the role.
NB: No agents thanks