Job description

About us

Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, enables farmers to connect with each other and key partners over SMS to solve problems, share ideas, obtain vital products and services, and spread innovation, through utilising the latest machine learning technology.

Small-scale agriculture is the biggest industry on earth, with more than a billion farmers globally supplying 70% of the world's food and commodities, yet remaining digitally unconnected. Until Wefarm, no other had built a digital platform for these farmers to share their vital insights, without having to go online!

Since our launch in 2015 we have grown to serve 1.9 million farmers across the world, who share more than 30,000 Qs & As per day. Wefarm has recently secured $13 million in Series A funding from some of the world’s leading VCs, including True Ventures in Silicon Valley, and we are looking to add to a world-class team based across London, Nairobi, Kampala and Dar-es-Salaam.

Join us and be a part of our mission to build an ecosystem for global agriculture, with the farmer at the centre!

The role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing technical team, as our first full-time hire in this field. You will have responsibility for architecting and managing new data management processes, including data schemas and ELT (extract-load-transform) data pipelines. You will lead on greenfield projects, owning research and development, as well as having the remit to optimize our existing infrastructure.

The role sits within Wefarm’s Technology team and will report directly to the CTO.

Wefarm currently sends and receives millions of SMS per month, leading to tens of millions of independent system events. You will be responsible for the storage and transfer of this unique dataset. You must be self-directed, and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, including developers, BI, and data scientists, enabling Wefarm to use data to build insight, grow the company, and support the needs of our farmers.

There is a rich, vibrant, and open culture within Wefarm. Even though we are separated geographically, we maintain a highly collaborative and communicative outlook and are keen to maintain this as we expand into new roles and new territories.

Essential Duties:

• Build and maintain ELT (extract-load-transform) pipelines to get data from various systems and databases into our existing Snowflake data lake
• Build and maintain SQL (and non-SQL) data transformations to enrich our data, including using DBT as the transformation step within our data lake
• Enable stakeholders, including the BI, Product, and Growth teams, to get access to the data they need to perform their duties
• Collaborate with Product Development teams to research and develop new data infrastructure projects, and architect reliable, accurate, and useful data schemas which can work for both operational and reporting purposes
• Work across the company on data-related technical issues, and monitor database usage and performance to maximise efficiency
• Ensure data security and data protection regulatory compliance by implementing optimal access policies and following industry best practice
• Razor-focused on personal and team OKRs to ensure work is aligned with company goals

Job requirements

• 3+ years experience working in a Data Engineer role (or equivalent experience in a backend engineering role)
• A successful history of manipulating and processing large disconnected unstructured datasets, and enabling others to use data to build value
• Advanced SQL (PostgreSQL and Snowflake)
• Working knowledge of Git and GitHub
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores (e.g. SQS, Kafka, Snowflake)
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
• Able to clearly articulate and communicate with non-technical team members
• Desirable: Clojure, Python and/or R
• Excited about Wefarm’s mission

Job description

About us

Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, enables farmers to connect with each other and key partners over SMS to solve problems, share ideas, obtain vital products and services, and spread innovation, through utilising the latest machine learning technology.

Small-scale agriculture is the biggest industry on earth, with more than a billion farmers globally supplying 70% of the world's food and commodities, yet remaining digitally unconnected. Until Wefarm, no other had built a digital platform for these farmers to share their vital insights, without having to go online!

Since our launch in 2015 we have grown to serve 1.9 million farmers across the world, who share more than 30,000 Qs & As per day. Wefarm has recently secured $13 million in Series A funding from some of the world’s leading VCs, including True Ventures in Silicon Valley, and we are looking to add to a world-class team based across London, Nairobi, Kampala and Dar-es-Salaam.

Join us and be a part of our mission to build an ecosystem for global agriculture, with the farmer at the centre!

The role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing technical team, as our first full-time hire in this field. You will have responsibility for architecting and managing new data management processes, including data schemas and ELT (extract-load-transform) data pipelines. You will lead on greenfield projects, owning research and development, as well as having the remit to optimize our existing infrastructure.

The role sits within Wefarm’s Technology team and will report directly to the CTO.

Wefarm currently sends and receives millions of SMS per month, leading to tens of millions of independent system events. You will be responsible for the storage and transfer of this unique dataset. You must be self-directed, and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, including developers, BI, and data scientists, enabling Wefarm to use data to build insight, grow the company, and support the needs of our farmers.

There is a rich, vibrant, and open culture within Wefarm. Even though we are separated geographically, we maintain a highly collaborative and communicative outlook and are keen to maintain this as we expand into new roles and new territories.

Essential Duties:

• Build and maintain ELT (extract-load-transform) pipelines to get data from various systems and databases into our existing Snowflake data lake
• Build and maintain SQL (and non-SQL) data transformations to enrich our data, including using DBT as the transformation step within our data lake
• Enable stakeholders, including the BI, Product, and Growth teams, to get access to the data they need to perform their duties
• Collaborate with Product Development teams to research and develop new data infrastructure projects, and architect reliable, accurate, and useful data schemas which can work for both operational and reporting purposes
• Work across the company on data-related technical issues, and monitor database usage and performance to maximise efficiency
• Ensure data security and data protection regulatory compliance by implementing optimal access policies and following industry best practice
• Razor-focused on personal and team OKRs to ensure work is aligned with company goals

Job requirements

• 3+ years experience working in a Data Engineer role (or equivalent experience in a backend engineering role)
• A successful history of manipulating and processing large disconnected unstructured datasets, and enabling others to use data to build value
• Advanced SQL (PostgreSQL and Snowflake)
• Working knowledge of Git and GitHub
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores (e.g. SQS, Kafka, Snowflake)
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
• Able to clearly articulate and communicate with non-technical team members
• Desirable: Clojure, Python and/or R
• Excited about Wefarm’s mission

Location: London or Cambridge UK

Employment Type: Full Time

Reporting to: CTO

At Motilent, we are on a mission to change how we see the gut. Founded in 2014, we use the latest in medical imaging science to create tools for clinicians that lead to better patient outcomes in chronic gut conditions such as Crohn’s disease. We follow an audited ISO 13485 Quality Management System.

Having secured further funding, we are seeking to further grow our tech team with passionate and self-motivated individuals who have experience working within or leading commercially-driven teams.

As a successful applicant you will have the opportunity to work alongside world-leading experts to define and develop a new cutting-edge clinical product which will impact on patient care both within the NHS as well as globally. As the technical owner of this product, you will, (with the support of a project manager), need to define a robust architecture and tech stack, while understanding deeply the needs and requirements of the end users in the clinic. You will need to carefully identify product milestones and engineering resources required to achieve them. Once resources are committed to your milestones, you will oversee progress, delivery and product releases.

Responsibilities

• Ability to work from a clean slate on a new clinical product with domestic & global impact to improve patient outcomes.
• Define and communicate a robust architecture and tech stack.
• Ownership of all technical decisions relating to the product.
• Close working relationship with regulatory, science and clinical experts.
• Definition, risk assessment and prioritization of all tehnical work in the product.
• Product software development including analysis, architecture and design, development, testing and all associated documentation
• Caring that the code quality of the software system implementation is aligned with Motilent coding standards and practices
• Research, investigation and prototyping of new technologies
• Collaborating with other team members including regular communication of progress of tasks
• Eager and self-motivated to learn and assist others in improving how we develop software
• Support and maintenance activities for software issues
• Pursue learning and self-development and sharing of knowledge with others

Prior experience: >5 years as a (senior) engineer within a commercial enterprise with evidence of keen problem-solving skills and able to use initiative to solve technical challenges

Academic background: degree in a numerate discipline with a sound mathematical base. (or equivalent courses)

Coding skills: Expert working knowledge of at least {C#, Java or C++} working knowledge of at least 1 other higher level language {e.g. Python, typescript, javascript}

Areas of commercial expertise (at least 2 of): web services, image processing algorithms, DICOM, medical imaging, cloud computing, web based UI frameworks, UI design patterns and architecture for highly interactive applications, performance code

Project management: Ideally worked under a formal quality system, able to take user needs and drill down into detailed, risk-assessed, technical specifications, verification and validation activities. Assemble work into coherent milestones. Proven ability to work to deadlines individually and as part of a team

Leadership experience: Ideally led or managed software engineers on commercial projects.

Benefits

• Work with world leading clinical experts in the gastrointestinal field
• Have your software delpoyed to clinical instiutions in the UK helping patients manage their conditions
• Engineer robust, high quality software. With the time to do things property.
• 35h working week
• Pension scheme
• Competitive salary
• 25d paid holiday + bank holidays
• Remote working options within the UK
• Share option sheme
• Budget and time for learning on the job
• Your choice of company laptop

What is Motilent’s company culture?

Motilent aims to deliver quantitative tools into day-to-day clincial practice for GI diagnosis and treatment response. We achieve this through close cooperation with: clincial experts and institutions throughout the world,transitioning cutting-edge science into robust, reliable clinical products, recruiting engineers and specialists that want to make an impact in the medical space, be proud of their work and the benefit it has to the UK and beyond. We want to get the most of your expertise during working hours by providing a challenging and worthwhile investment of your time. We will provide opportunities to take new responsibility and learn with us as we grow. We are a small company, your voice will be heard and your talents and efforts make a direct impact on company success with the concomitant financial rewards. We want to offer a place where, in a few years, you can say I learned, I took responisibility, we did that, it’s cool and worthwhile.

NOTE: No Recuiters or Agencies Please!

Location: London or Cambridge UK

Employment Type: Full Time

Reporting to: CTO

At Motilent, we are on a mission to change how we see the gut. Founded in 2014, we use the latest in medical imaging science to create tools for clinicians that lead to better patient outcomes in chronic gut conditions such as Crohn’s disease. We follow an audited ISO 13485 Quality Management System.

Having secured further funding, we are seeking to further grow our tech team with passionate and self-motivated individuals who have experience working within or leading commercially-driven teams.

As a successful applicant you will have the opportunity to work alongside world-leading experts to define and develop a new cutting-edge clinical product which will impact on patient care both within the NHS as well as globally. As the technical owner of this product, you will, (with the support of a project manager), need to define a robust architecture and tech stack, while understanding deeply the needs and requirements of the end users in the clinic. You will need to carefully identify product milestones and engineering resources required to achieve them. Once resources are committed to your milestones, you will oversee progress, delivery and product releases.

Responsibilities

• Ability to work from a clean slate on a new clinical product with domestic & global impact to improve patient outcomes.
• Define and communicate a robust architecture and tech stack.
• Ownership of all technical decisions relating to the product.
• Close working relationship with regulatory, science and clinical experts.
• Definition, risk assessment and prioritization of all tehnical work in the product.
• Product software development including analysis, architecture and design, development, testing and all associated documentation
• Caring that the code quality of the software system implementation is aligned with Motilent coding standards and practices
• Research, investigation and prototyping of new technologies
• Collaborating with other team members including regular communication of progress of tasks
• Eager and self-motivated to learn and assist others in improving how we develop software
• Support and maintenance activities for software issues
• Pursue learning and self-development and sharing of knowledge with others

Prior experience: >5 years as a (senior) engineer within a commercial enterprise with evidence of keen problem-solving skills and able to use initiative to solve technical challenges

Academic background: degree in a numerate discipline with a sound mathematical base. (or equivalent courses)

Coding skills: Expert working knowledge of at least {C#, Java or C++} working knowledge of at least 1 other higher level language {e.g. Python, typescript, javascript}

Areas of commercial expertise (at least 2 of): web services, image processing algorithms, DICOM, medical imaging, cloud computing, web based UI frameworks, UI design patterns and architecture for highly interactive applications, performance code

Project management: Ideally worked under a formal quality system, able to take user needs and drill down into detailed, risk-assessed, technical specifications, verification and validation activities. Assemble work into coherent milestones. Proven ability to work to deadlines individually and as part of a team

Leadership experience: Ideally led or managed software engineers on commercial projects.

Benefits

• Work with world leading clinical experts in the gastrointestinal field
• Have your software delpoyed to clinical instiutions in the UK helping patients manage their conditions
• Engineer robust, high quality software. With the time to do things property.
• 35h working week
• Pension scheme
• Competitive salary
• 25d paid holiday + bank holidays
• Remote working options within the UK
• Share option sheme
• Budget and time for learning on the job
• Your choice of company laptop

What is Motilent’s company culture?

Motilent aims to deliver quantitative tools into day-to-day clincial practice for GI diagnosis and treatment response. We achieve this through close cooperation with: clincial experts and institutions throughout the world,transitioning cutting-edge science into robust, reliable clinical products, recruiting engineers and specialists that want to make an impact in the medical space, be proud of their work and the benefit it has to the UK and beyond. We want to get the most of your expertise during working hours by providing a challenging and worthwhile investment of your time. We will provide opportunities to take new responsibility and learn with us as we grow. We are a small company, your voice will be heard and your talents and efforts make a direct impact on company success with the concomitant financial rewards. We want to offer a place where, in a few years, you can say I learned, I took responisibility, we did that, it’s cool and worthwhile.

NOTE: No Recuiters or Agencies Please!

Location: London or Cambridge UK

Employment Type: Full Time

Office: Central London, UK; must have EU / UK Citizenship or Working Visa

Reporting to: CTO

At Motilent, we are on a mission to change how we see the gut. Founded in 2014, we use the latest in medical imaging science to create tools for clinicians that lead to better patient outcomes in chronic gut conditions such as Crohn’s disease. We follow an audited ISO 13485 Quality Management System.

Having secured further funding, we are seeking to further grow our tech team with passionate and self-motivated individuals who have experience working within or leading commercially-driven teams.

As a successful applicant you will have the opportunity to work alongside world-leading experts to define and develop a new cutting-edge clinical product which will impact on patient care both within the NHS as well as globally. As a software engineer you will efficiently specify, implement, verify and help validate new user needs and change requests from all sources. You will be expected to update and maintain necessary technical documentation and work to the high standards required by our quality management system. This involves mutual peer-review of specification, code and verification activities. You will bring expertise in 1 or more key product technologies and actively survey the technical landscape for new opportunities to improve the product and the efficiency of development activities. Crucially you will work with the technical product lead and project manager to achieve milestones and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Pick-up and run with new technologies and languages.
• Specification, risk-assessment, priortization, measurement, design, implementation and verification of product tasks according to our standard operating procedures.
• Scrutinize and peer-review the work of others in the team
• Help maintain the product technical backlog, identifying areas for improvement, technical debt.
• Work with the technical product lead to help define the architecture and bring your engineering experience.
• Caring that the code quality of the software system implementation is aligned with Motilent coding standards and practices
• Research, investigation and prototyping of new technologies
• Collaborating with other team members including regular communication of progress of tasks
• Eager and self-motivated to learn and assist others in improving how we develop software
• Support and maintenance activities for software issues
• Pursue learning and self-development and sharing of knowledge with others

Prior experience:

>2 years as a software engineer within a commercial enterprise with evidence of keen problem-solving skills and able to use initiative to solve technical challenges

Academic background: degree in a numerate discipline with a sound mathematical base. (or equivalent courses)

Coding skills: working knowledge of at least {C#, Java or C++} working knowledge of at least 1 other higher level language {e.g. Python, typescript, javascript}. Experience within a large codebase on a complex product. Familiarity with web-development backend frameworks and database technology SQL, noSQL variants.

Areas of commercial expertise: linux development, backend devlopment, web services, RESTful APIs, cloud deployment, CI/CD, containerization

Project management: Ideally worked under a formal quality system,

Benefits

• Work with world leading clinical experts in the gastrointestinal field
• Have your software delpoyed to clinical instiutions in the UK helping patients manage their conditions
• Engineer robust, high quality software. With the time to do things property.
• 35h working week
• Pension scheme
• Competitive salary
• 25d paid holiday + bank holidays
• Remote working options within the UK
• Share option sheme
• Budget and time for learning on the job
• Your choice of company laptop

What is Motilent’s company culture?

Motilent aims to deliver quantitative tooling into day-to-day clincial practice for GI diagnosis and treatment response. We achieve this through close cooperation with clincial experts and insitutions throughout the world, transitioning cutting-edge science into robust, reliable clinical products, recruiting engineers and specialists that want to make an impact in the medical space, be proud of their work and the benefit it has to the UK and beyond. We want to get the most of your expertise during working hours by providing a challenging and worthwhile investment of your time. We will provide opportunities to take new responsibility and learn with us as we grow, We are a small company, your voice will be heard and your talents and efforts make a direct impact on company success with the concomitant financial rewards. We want to offer a place where, in a few years, you can say I learned, I took responisibility, we did that, its cool and worthwhile.

NOTE: No Recuiters or Agencies Please!

Location: London or Cambridge UK

Employment Type: Full Time

Office: Central London, UK; must have EU / UK Citizenship or Working Visa

Reporting to: CTO

At Motilent, we are on a mission to change how we see the gut. Founded in 2014, we use the latest in medical imaging science to create tools for clinicians that lead to better patient outcomes in chronic gut conditions such as Crohn’s disease. We follow an audited ISO 13485 Quality Management System.

Having secured further funding, we are seeking to further grow our tech team with passionate and self-motivated individuals who have experience working within or leading commercially-driven teams.

As a successful applicant you will have the opportunity to work alongside world-leading experts to define and develop a new cutting-edge clinical product which will impact on patient care both within the NHS as well as globally. As a software engineer you will efficiently specify, implement, verify and help validate new user needs and change requests from all sources. You will be expected to update and maintain necessary technical documentation and work to the high standards required by our quality management system. This involves mutual peer-review of specification, code and verification activities. You will bring expertise in 1 or more key product technologies and actively survey the technical landscape for new opportunities to improve the product and the efficiency of development activities. Crucially you will work with the technical product lead and project manager to achieve milestones and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Pick-up and run with new technologies and languages.
• Specification, risk-assessment, priortization, measurement, design, implementation and verification of product tasks according to our standard operating procedures.
• Scrutinize and peer-review the work of others in the team
• Help maintain the product technical backlog, identifying areas for improvement, technical debt.
• Work with the technical product lead to help define the architecture and bring your engineering experience.
• Caring that the code quality of the software system implementation is aligned with Motilent coding standards and practices
• Research, investigation and prototyping of new technologies
• Collaborating with other team members including regular communication of progress of tasks
• Eager and self-motivated to learn and assist others in improving how we develop software
• Support and maintenance activities for software issues
• Pursue learning and self-development and sharing of knowledge with others

Prior experience:

>2 years as a software engineer within a commercial enterprise with evidence of keen problem-solving skills and able to use initiative to solve technical challenges

Academic background: degree in a numerate discipline with a sound mathematical base. (or equivalent courses)

Coding skills: working knowledge of at least {C#, Java or C++} working knowledge of at least 1 other higher level language {e.g. Python, typescript, javascript}. Experience within a large codebase on a complex product. Familiarity with web-development backend frameworks and database technology SQL, noSQL variants.

Areas of commercial expertise: linux development, backend devlopment, web services, RESTful APIs, cloud deployment, CI/CD, containerization

Project management: Ideally worked under a formal quality system,

Benefits

• Work with world leading clinical experts in the gastrointestinal field
• Have your software delpoyed to clinical instiutions in the UK helping patients manage their conditions
• Engineer robust, high quality software. With the time to do things property.
• 35h working week
• Pension scheme
• Competitive salary
• 25d paid holiday + bank holidays
• Remote working options within the UK
• Share option sheme
• Budget and time for learning on the job
• Your choice of company laptop

What is Motilent’s company culture?

Motilent aims to deliver quantitative tooling into day-to-day clincial practice for GI diagnosis and treatment response. We achieve this through close cooperation with clincial experts and insitutions throughout the world, transitioning cutting-edge science into robust, reliable clinical products, recruiting engineers and specialists that want to make an impact in the medical space, be proud of their work and the benefit it has to the UK and beyond. We want to get the most of your expertise during working hours by providing a challenging and worthwhile investment of your time. We will provide opportunities to take new responsibility and learn with us as we grow, We are a small company, your voice will be heard and your talents and efforts make a direct impact on company success with the concomitant financial rewards. We want to offer a place where, in a few years, you can say I learned, I took responisibility, we did that, its cool and worthwhile.

NOTE: No Recuiters or Agencies Please!