Senior Software Engineer

At Bowery, we’re making wildly delicious food more accessible to everyone. Driven by our proprietary end-to-end technology, our farms are transforming the entire fresh food supply chain to be simpler, safer, and vastly more sustainable.

We have 5 farms in operation (including state-of-the-art R&D and innovation farms) and we’re just getting started. We’re backed by tech and agriculture industry leaders with $647M in equity and debt capital, and our products are sold in over 1,400 locations.

Working at Bowery is more than just a job. It’s a chance to make a global impact with first-of-its-kind technology and ridiculously good food. We’re always looking for passionate minds to grow (and eat) with us! Ready to make a real difference? Join us. We’d love to have you here.

P.s. Check out our podcast for all things Bowery culture, teams, leadership, and karaoke (yes, karaoke) – https://spoti.fi/3ToY3Mm

About the Role:

At Bowery, our Engineers are building the software that powers our smart farms. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a major part in idea generation, designing, prototyping, planning, and executing new software components for the BoweryOS. We’re a group of collaborators and in this role, you will develop apps and features that will be leveraged by our Data, Supply Chain, and Operations teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to have real ownership of projects and to be able to see your work come to life at our farms.

Our frontend software stack is primarily Vue.js and React. Our backend software stack includes Elixir services running in AWS and Phoenix + Elixir (Nerves) running on thousands of our in-house built devices located in our farms. We’re utilizing an event-driven architecture, RPC, and Channels/WebSockets to pass data throughout our services and real-time UI’s.

This role is based out of our NYC HQ. We follow a hybrid working model.

Learn more about our Elixir stack from our engineers on the Beam Radio Podcast: shorturl.at/kmOT4 and Elixir Wizards Podcast here.

What You’ll Do:

• Create innovative automation solutions and advance the state of indoor farming
• Scale our technical infrastructure to support our rapid growth
• Develop & improve a core distributed backend system
• Develop systems to collect, process, and visualize data related to plant health and growing environment characteristics
• Scale systems to handle more farms, more sensors, more crops, and more operators
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance developer productivity

Who You Are:

• You have production-level experience in Javascript, Ruby, Python, Go, or Elixir
• You have experience developing and scaling production web applications using Rails, Node, Phoenix or similar backend MVC frameworks
• You proactively mitigate issues through test-driven development, continuous deployment, and thoughtful monitoring and alerting
• You’ve built user interfaces using JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js, React, or Angular
• You’re excited about how advancements in machine learning and IoT can work in harmony to improve the state of the planet
• You are able to establish the scope of assigned tasks, execute them, and independently communicate status updates
• You participate in code reviews and give constructive feedback to peers
• You are familiar with implementations of protocols like MQTT, XMPP, and AMQP to handle messaging between services in a distributed system
• You believe that teams succeed and fail together and take responsibility for ensuring the success and safety of your teammates
• You’re confident in taking ownership of projects from start to finish and enjoy the process of turning nebulous ideas into reality

Benefits As Good As our Greens:

• To support you and your family, we offer health, dental, and vision insurance; mental health resources; family forming support; long-term and short-term disability insurance; FSA; HSA; commuter benefits and gym reimbursement
• 401k retirement plan and company stock options, so you can reap the benefits of every Bowery win
• The more balance, the better. We offer unlimited paid vacation, paid holiday – plus 16 weeks paid parental leave so you can focus on what matters most
• From internal mobility to a mentorship program and curated L&D initiatives, we are fully invested in your growth

We think the starting salary for this role is $160,000, but it might vary depending on skills and experiences. If this role is of interest to you, you should apply no matter what. You can trust us to make an assessment based on your unique skills and experience and communicate that with you.

Our commitment to eliminating bias and ensuring pay equity goes beyond pay transparency. Click here (https://bit.ly/3hwUyq1) to learn more about how compensation works at Bowery, how we came up with the salary on this job posting, and what we’re doing to ensure your compensation is internally and externally equitable.

Bowery is an equal opportunity employer – a place that celebrates unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures that will enrich the workplace. We are attempting to redefine what a sustainable agricultural supply chain can look like. We cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of people who want fresh, locally grown food in regard to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. We strongly encourage people from marginalized communities to apply to join our team.