Frontend Software Engineer - Full Stack Track

About Us

At InnerPlant (www.innerplant.com) we are on a mission to transform farming by enabling crops to communicate directly with farmers. By tapping into plants' immune systems, InnerPlant engineers crops that emit optical signals detectable as far away as space when under attack by disease, pests, or other stressors. 

We’re backed by leading industry and venture partners, including John Deere and an alliance of North American farmers. InnerPlant is a place for people that believe they can make a difference and want to improve how decisions are made on the farm.

We are currently seeking a Frontend Engineer to push forward our work to deliver the signals from our plants to farmers. This key role would be accountable for ensuring that the software that our customers and partners use to interact with our product is intuitive, performant, and usable across the various devices present on the modern farm. 

Responsibilities 

• Build and refine frontend interfaces our customers will use to interact with our flagship product, CropVoice.
• Design and implement customer data visualizations for internal stakeholders.
• Automate key customer interaction points, including transactional communications.
• Land in the frontend and expand to full stack, taking a holistic approach to systems design.

Skills Summary

• JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (e.g. Svelte)
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and responsive design principles
• Experience with common development tools and services, such as version control software, package managers, and CI/CD pipelines 
• Bonus software skills : at least some experience with Python-based ORMs and REST API frameworks; familiarity with map frameworks (e.g. Leaflet, Mapbox) for spatial data visualization; exposure to cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP) and containerization 
• Interpersonal: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to contribute to a healthy engineering culture as well as relay technical concepts to non-engineers 

Education, Experience, and Attributes

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least one year of experience building software, with a focus on frontend components
• Long term mindset and outlook toward building maintainable systems
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn about remote sensing, plant biology, and the global food system
• Desire to learn and grow toward backend/full stack development
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team

The US annual compensation range for this position is $91,000 to $133,000. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

InnerPlant provides an amazing opportunity to work on some of the hardest problems facing humanity and help design the agricultural systems of the future. In addition to working with a fun team, we offer competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities.

InnerPlant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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