About Square Roots

Square Roots is the technology leader in indoor farming. Our mission is to future-proof agriculture for a world facing climate change.

Founded by serial entrepreneurs Kimbal Musk and Tobias Peggs, Square Roots partners with food distributors, retailers, consumer goods producers, and foundations. Our farming-as-a-service model combines proprietary technology, indoor growing expertise, and production facilities, to deliver bespoke value to our customers in the short-term while our R&D efforts contribute to climate change solutions for the long term.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to be an integral member of a small, cross-functional team, that builds and maintains software systems designed to interact with our mechanical and electrical hardware components to support our farming and business initiatives. You will help us develop and adapt our proprietary farm management platform to support the needs of our farming-as-a-service and R&D customers.

We have a wide range of technical solutions to innovate - including farm control, improving user experience, data reporting and visualization, and lots of workflow automation connecting the electrical and mechanical hardware components of our farms to our software.

These technology solutions will support farming-as-a-service and R&D farming activities within our proprietary hydroponic farm systems, exploring innovative ways to facilitate data collection, having cloud-connected farms alert farmers when they're running low on water, and surfacing valuable insights from the data we collect. This means being comfortable integrating existing sensors, apps, APIs, and services as well as developing new innovative solutions on the fly. AI and machine learning are becoming more important to Square Roots as well, as our network of farms and farmers create millions of data points using electrical and environmental sensors that can continuously teach us how to grow better food.

This role is hybrid, and candidates must have the ability to commute to our office in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a frequent basis.

What You'll Do

Create and iterate on full-stack web and IoT applications using a variety of technologies including but not limited to Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, GraphQL, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL, Raspberry Pi, Python and AWS IoT Greengrass.
Develop internal tools and workflow automation to support Farming Operations, R&D, Hardware, and Business Development teams.
Identify and solve the most important technical and business problems as part of a very collaborative interdisciplinary team.

Qualifications

Demonstrated Full-Stack experience
Object-oriented programming languages such as Ruby or Python.
React or a similar front-end web framework.
System design, data structures, and algorithms.
Data modeling and relational/non-relational databases.
Continuous integration and automatic deployments (Big Plus).
Familiarity with microcomputers/controllers such as Raspberry Pi or Arduino. Experience with writing low-level programming for sensing or hardware control (Big Plus).
Familiarity with rapid software prototyping tools such as Figma, Streamlit, Google Colab, etc.. (Big Plus).
Experience building IoT systems using frameworks such as AWS IoT Greengrass (Big Plus).
You’ve grown food with hydroponics or other controlled-environment agriculture techniques, or from soil (Big Plus).

You'll Love Working At Square Roots Because

We're here to change the food system. You'll have the opportunity to play a significant role in our work at the intersection of technology, farming, and the global food industry - and we're only just getting started.
Our team is driven by a shared set of values. These keep us aligned and remind us how to show up every day in the face of growth and ambiguity. Whether you’re working remotely or on the farms, collaboration, respect, optimism and humility are all embraced, and we seek to empower people at every step. Ask us about the rest!
Benefits and perks, of course. We're all here first and foremost to play our part in the mission, but medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible work life culture, and lots of samples of the delicious food we grow certainly do not hurt.

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