Software Engineer

About Us:

Gro Intelligence is changing the way the world understands agriculture. Gro enables data discovery and access to predictive modeling at a scale never possible before. We’re a quickly-growing global team of agriculture, design, and technology lovers who believe that good agricultural data, like any other form of good infrastructure, helps societies thrive.

Our principles are simple: teach, ask, listen and always learn. We are looking for team members that can teach us, listen to what people have to say, ask the tough questions and most importantly be on a constant quest for knowledge.

We are looking for highly-motivated, intellectually curious people who are hungry for personal growth. Successful candidates have versatile talents and are excited to work in a fast-paced, demanding, and constantly evolving entrepreneurial environment. We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our office in Nairobi.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality, high performance software
• Data API design and service implementation
• Data storage architecture and optimization
• Develop computational models to predict various facets of agricultural markets using data related to crop production, weather, environment, consumption, infrastructure, transportation, trade flows, prices, and socioeconomic indicators, amongst others
• Implement sophisticated but easy data visualizations and interactions
• Develop large scale data harvesting and transformation systems

Qualifications:

• Very strong computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)
• Very proficient in at least two of: Javascript, Python, Java, C++
• Bachelor's level degree in computer science, engineering, math or related field; or relevant work experience

Bonus Points:

• Strong system design experience
• Strong understanding of statistics and mathematics
• Experience with large scale systems, parallel computing, distributed storage
• Familiarity with statistical modeling tools (R, MatLab)
• Experience with natural language processing (NLP)
• Experience using RESTful APIs
• Understanding of relational databases and distributed databases (e.g. Postgres, Cassandra, Bigtable)
• Basic knowledge of Node.js
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Graduate degree / Research experience