Senior Software Developer, Fullstack

About the Unit

There are more than 500 million smallholder farms globally. 2.5 billion people depend on Smallholder Communities for their food and livelihoods. Smallholder regions are characterized by low living standards, high rates of illiteracy and low agricultural productivity. Yara’s mission is "Responsibly Feed the World and Protect the Planet". Key to achieving this is enabling thriving Smallholder Communities. At Yara, the Smallholders Digital Team is part of the Crop and Digital Solutions Unit.

About Crop and Digital Solutions

Yara aims to be the crop nutrition company for the future and is leading the development of sustainable agriculture and digital tools to contribute to solving global agricultural challenges. We have a worldwide presence with sales teams in ~150 countries and around 17,000 employees. Yara Farming Solutions, will lead the transformation towards more sustainable and efficient food production, by innovating our offerings and the way we work. Crop and Digital Solutions is responsible developing and scaling new “on-farm” digital and integrated tools and solutions for an efficient and transparent food system.

Responsibilities

• Work within a product team with a product manager, designers, and other developers to create engaging, user-centric solutions, applications and/or services that solve the needs of the smallholder farming communities around the world (farmers, offtakers, retailers, dealers, markets, and all other stakeholders within a farming community).
• Participate in the full lifecycle of a product, from early stage inception through to full market release and continuous improvement after initial launch
• Work together with field solutions team of UX professionals and Subject Matter Experts in rapidly creating solution prototypes to validate ideas collated from smallholder community personas across the globe.
• Contribute to MVPs, partial and full release products and various stages of development and release on different release trains.
• Mentor juniors and mid-level developers within the team. Take ownership of technical areas to become go-to person for expertise and consultation.

Profile

• At least two full-project experiences in a ’senior’ capacity with mobile development using Javascript tech-stack/frameworks/platforms for both Android & iOS (React Native, Ionic etc). Familiar with Typescript fullstack SDLC and engineering best practices
• Understanding of and experience coding with Javascript - from VanillaJS to libraries and frameworks (Nodejs/ReactJs/Express).

• At least two full-project experiences building Backend Services with Nodejs (Express) and strong foundations in REST API development.

• Knowledge on design and development of performant RDBMS and NoSQL databases, as well as related ORMs (Sequelize etc.)
• Deployment experience in at least two projects with container tech (Docker/Kubernetes/AWS EKS) and CI/CD (CircleCi/Jenkins).
• Ability to test your code with unit, integration and E2E tests (Enzyme/Jest/cypress).
• Bonus points for familiarity with Swagger, Postman, Terraform, Github, AWS Lambda, Serverless concepts, AWS RDS and AWS DynamoDB.
• Desired skills: Keen to use types on your javascript code (Typescript, Flow), interested in the use GraphQL on a production environment.
• Prior experience working in an agile environment following scrum methodology as well as collaborating with remote teams on daily basis.
• Prior experience in mentoring junior developers with concrete growth plans and skill-upgrade strategies.

Additional Information

We strive to reflect the diversity in society and encourage all qualified applicants from all background to apply. We are committed to creating a work environment that fits gender equality and allows combining career progress with the needs of a family or other personal circumstances

Why us?

• Evolving tech development division of an established agricultural products and services company.
• Explore and develop digital, software, hardware products, which provide value to farmers, smallholder communities and the value chain.
• Be part of our mission to build sustainable solutions that benefit humanity and the environment.
• Full-time, permanent and freelance contract options available with competitive remuneration + benefits.
• Support for personal development, training and continuous learning.
• Commitment to using new technologies and frameworks, meetups, and knowledge sharing.

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