Head of Software

About the Company

At Edacious, we believe food should be plentiful AND nutritious. As the impacts of yield-obsessed food production on human and environmental health become clear, the ability to measure nutrition as easily as we measure yield becomes critical. Why? The most nutritious food is also the most flavorful and sustainable. Our mission is nutritional transparency, and our vision is to shift the food system so it may better serve consumers, producers, and our planet.

We are chemists, engineers, and systems-thinkers. We create novel hardware, software, and analysis tools for producers to understand the factors that produce more nutritious food and for buyers to know the nutritional quality of the food they buy. We are looking for teammates who are passionate about food, the food system, and human or environmental health!

The Job:

We are in search of an experienced Head of Software to lead the build out of our data infrastructure. You will work alongside the leadership team to build the foundation for all infra- and server-side structures. You will own the entire back-end while collaborating with team leads and building your own engineering team. As a key leadership team member, you will help build the company and culture from the ground up.

The Job Responsibilities:  

Engineering. You’ll be leading infra development to get unlock our science and bring our product to market. You will make key architectural decisions that will be pillars of the engineering organization for years to come. You’ll have to make tradeoffs between speed of execution and quality. As a team we’ll decide what makes sense to build vs. borrow vs. buy. As a founding engineer, you will be responsible for setting up project management processes, troubleshooting performance and reliability, and instrumenting the CI/CD pipeline.

Product. You will be intimately involved in the product development and direction. With the product team, you’ll spend time talking with customers, teasing out use cases, and making prioritization decisions that set the course in both the short- and long-term. You’ll be building features in absence of any formal product requirement docs.

Support & People. You’ll play a central role in connected dots between our technical teams in the lab and developing instrumentation as well as with our external partners. You will spend time sourcing, interviewing, and hiring early team members. You will play a foundational role in setting the company’s culture and operations.

What We’re Looking For:

Experience. You have 10+ years’ experience working as a software engineer. You have experience developing and supporting complex web applications and building scalable cloud infrastructure. You are an expert/proficient in key languages, including Java, Javascript, C, C++, Python. You have implemented web services, master core technologies such as SQL databases, Django/Jenkins/Ruby on Rails frameworks, familiar with Kubernetes/Docker and Dynamo/S3 data storage. You have implemented IoT cloud services including cloud, gateways, embedded Linux gateways for MQTT, MQTT client software, and data encryption. You can manage code development with GIT, setup issue tracking, and documentation. You have been in a diversity of roles that has given you exposure to the full stack such as React and Node.js, but the bones are where you thrive. You should be confident in your ability to tackle ambiguous problems, build large-scale, distributed and resilient systems, work through tradeoffs on performance and reliability, and crank out quality code. Current stack includes Terraform, Docker, Typescript, Gitea, AWS and Sentry.

Ownership. You take pride in your work. You want to own it, feel it, be proud of what you’re building and ensure a quality system is built from the ground up. You’ll own many aspects of the process, and we need someone we can trust to really run with it.

Multidisciplinary. You should be comfortable wearing many hats while dealing with ambiguity. You should expect to be involved in many aspects of founding the business, including coding, participating in customer discovery, technical brainstorms, architecture presentations, and hiring and building a team.

• Own the data stack and build scalable cloud infrastructure from the ground up.

• You will take lead on major technical and architectural decisions to lay the foundation for data flows, storage, and visualization across the platform.

• Design and develop infrastructure to synchronize analytical data from laboratories into a clean front end.

• Ensure back-end systems maintain a high bar for security, privacy, reliability, performance, code quality and documentation.

• Salary: $150,000-185,000, depending on qualifications, experience, and equity

• Equity: 0.5-1.5%, depending on qualifications, experience, and salary

• Benefits: health, vision, and dental insurance, 401k plan, and unlimited PTO

Our company is in the Boston metro area. The preference is for a candidate based in this area, but other locations are being considered. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Diversity is the foundation of life and has created this beautiful world we live in. Just as nature has shown us the importance of diversity in biology, it is critical to build this diversity into our social structures. To the extent that we can build communities and teams that work in symbiotic and constructive ways, contributing to greater levels of productivity and resilience, the more successful we will be. We wish to attract diverse individuals in experience, perspective, and culture. Our company must represent the broader global food system if we are to be successful in this endeavor and so we seek to recruit and build teams that represent the beautiful diversity of people and life present on this planet.