Software Engineer

Join Apollo Agriculture as a Software Engineer

About Apollo Agriculture: Apollo Agriculture is a leading agri-fintech platform empowering small-scale farmers across Africa to increase their profits and farm more sustainably. Apollo uses artificial intelligence and automated operations to unlock the massive, untapped small-scale farming market. Apollo enables farmers to access the optimized financing, high-quality farm products, expert digital advice, and risk management solutions they need to invest and scale their businesses. Apollo grew paying customers over 2.5x in 2023 to over 200K small-scale farmers in Kenya and Zambia, increasing revenue to nearly $30M with robust unit economics. Apollo partners with key global agriculture companies like Bayer, OCP and Yara, and is backed by Anthemis, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flourish Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Softbank Vision Fund. Apollo’s team brings together technology, credit and operations experience from The Climate Corporation, Google, Capital One, Revolut, and One Acre Fund.

About the Role: Apollo is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to join our Amsterdam-based Engineering team and help us develop and improve the technology that drives our operations.

In this role, you will be implementing practical and pragmatic solutions to real-world problems. Apollo is active in some of the most remote and underserved areas on earth, and we are often required to innovate to handle unusual challenges… truly engineering at the edge! We are a small but motivated team, where everyone has considerable ownership and responsibility.

In this role, you will work directly with Product, Data Science, and Operations teams to enable the distribution of high quality agricultural inputs to tens of thousands of smallholder farmers annually.

Reporting Lines: This role reports to the Engineering Manager

Your responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain effective, scalable systems using Scala, Play Framework, and Cats
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of impactful features.
• Embrace a product engineer mindset, balancing ideal architecture with the realities of a fast-paced startup environment.
• Mentor peers in software development best practices.
• Be part of an on-call rotation, responding to outages as necessary.
• Actively participate in creating a positive impact on the lives of smallholder farmers through technology.

You:

• Are excited about the mission of transforming the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
• Are a creative problem solver, and are excited to innovate where technology doesn’t work as usual. Our challenges include poor or non-existent cell phone coverage, limited quality mobile phone hardware, and so on.
• Have a solid background in writing software at scale, preferably using Scala or another high-level, statically typed language. This typically means you have 5+ years of professional software development experience at a fast growing technology company.
• Have knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals, preferably AWS.
• Have production experience with SQL databases including data modeling, writing performant queries, etc.
• Are an exceptional writer and communicator. You can turn technical challenges and solutions into digestible technical documents and proposals to seek alignment and enable efficient technical decision making.
• Are a tireless problem solver who can roll up your sleeves to tackle whatever challenges need urgent attention, no matter when they arise. You have a “whatever it takes” attitude and are comfortable engaging peers across different teams to get the job done.

We:

• Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers.
• Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise.
• Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve.
• Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree.
• Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth.
• Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment.
• Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects.
• Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect.
• Are excited to hear from you!

At Apollo Agriculture, we are building an inclusive and supportive work environment where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage female candidates to apply to this position.