Title: Senior Software Engineer, Agrecalc Limited
Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Location: Hybrid, base location Edinburgh
Closing Date: 28 February 2025
A competitive salary of £50K – £65K, depending on experience, plus benefits listed below.
Agrecalc is the market-leading farm carbon calculator – a software solution that quantifies, benchmarks, and helps reduce carbon footprint across the food supply chain.
Using Agrecalc enables benchmarking and monitoring of farm GHG emissions. We support the global agricultural transition to a low-carbon future, aiming to foster worldwide sustainability by decreasing carbon footprint, and importantly, helping to increase production efficiency.
We seek a Senior Software Engineer to make a substantial contribution to the commercial success of Agrecalc, driving the development of our core platform, by supporting our ambition, commercial and customer needs, and making sure that we are the number one carbon foot printing tool of choice, not just here in the UK but globally.
Agrecalc carbon reporting tool is a resource efficiency calculator that provides independent carbon footprint assessments. We only employ evidence-based, verified scientific methods. We believe that by maintaining our independence, we can better serve our customers with unbiased advice, reliable products, and sustainable practices.
We want to ensure that our actions reflect our commitment to our customers, partners, and employees. We prioritise making decisions based on our own judgment and principles. We encourage dialogue and feedback to continuously improve our practices. We build trust and accountability, enabling everyone to make informed decisions and contribute meaningfully to our collective goals.
We celebrate strong, supportive partnerships across the entire agri-food supply chain. We strive to break down silos, to help users harness their data, we embrace diverse perspectives to leverage the unique strengths and talents of everyone involved, to create solutions together that meet the needs of a net-zero future. Like a murmuration of birds, we work with and respond to our environment to achieve greater efficiency, and success with our staff, partners and other collaborators.
Read more on Agrecalc company values.
This is an exciting time to join Agrecalc and work with us on our mission to feed the world sustainably by improving on farm efficiency and reducing emissions.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our office in Edinburgh on a full-time permanent basis. We can offer candidates an attractive benefit offering including:
As Agrecalc becomes more complex in terms of its offering, and moves from commercial validation to high growth stage, Agrecalc needs a Senior Software Engineer to join the development team. The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop the Agrecalc Cloud application in line with the identified strategic plan and scientific advancements. The role will report to the Head of Technical & Delivery and interact with a variety of internal team members and external technical contractors.
The purpose of the role is to implement new features and continuously update the existing product, driving to the ongoing growth and positioning of the Agrecalc platform into the market. This involves supporting the Head of Technical & Delivery and the wider team scoping, technical product development and subsequently implementing solutions driven by challenges brought to Agrecalc by its customers and the evolving marketplace.
Degree Level (or equivalent) in related subject (cloud and web software development) or equivalent experience.
To apply, a Covering Letter, outlining the most relevant experience to this role and why you are the right candidate, is a must, in addition to your CV, that should not exceed two A4 pages. Please send both to [email protected]. If you are applying through LinkedIn, please ensure you have included a covering letter.
The closing date for applications for this vacancy is Friday, 28 February 2025 at 5 pm, however we may close earlier depending on response rates. As such we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
At Agrecalc, we welcome all no matter your background. We encourage the right candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or race.
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