Software Engineer, Backend Developer

Company Overview

Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN®) is a pioneering digital marketplace and farmer-to-farmer network dedicated to empowering family farmers globally while promoting sustainable agriculture. With over 117,000 members, FBN's Farmers First® promise unites growers and ranchers in their quest to maximize profitability and increase food production. FBN leverages data, AI and direct-to-farm delivery to simplify the agricultural supply chain, boosting convenience and transparency, reducing farm input costs, enhancing access to financing and services, and providing personalized farm insights.

Its Gradable® joint‑venture helps thousands of farmers adopt and earn rewards for regenerative practices while simplifying the access of regenerative products for the world’s leading food companies and grain buyers.

Agriculture combines complex biological, mechanical, meteorological, chemical, and economic systems. In this role, you will:

• Architect and implement back‑end systems for the full lifecycle of financial services.
• Architect and deploy scalable infrastructure for genAI‑driven features, working closely with data scientists to productize agronomic models at scale.
• Own full feature sets and significant portions of the codebase.
• Collaborate closely with product management, data science, and business leaders.
• Continue to push your engineering skills through complex projects and collaborations with highly experienced engineers.

You are the right person for this role if you have a passion for building robust and scalable systems that tame complex problems, with an appreciation for quality and testability. Additionally, you should have:

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Excellent computer science skills.
• Strong track record and architectural skills for building complex back‑end systems.
• Deep expertise in a programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.
• Extensive experience with database schema design (e.g., Postgres, MySQL).
• Proven ability to design high‑throughput, distributed systems and decompose monolithic architectures into microservices.
• Hands‑on success building data‑intensive applications or pipelines and handling complex data models.
• Exposure to Dev Ops (AWS).
• Ability to mentor junior engineers, conduct rigorous code reviews, and drive technical decision‑making across the organization.
• Expertise in designing and maintaining robust APIs for internal and external consumers.
• Familiarity with geospatial data systems (Google Earth Engine).

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This following represents FBN's reasonable estimate of the U.S. national average base salary range for this role based on market data and placement of internal employees: $180,000–$220,000
. This salary range may vary based on geography and the higher cost of labor in some metropolitan areas. Beyond base pay, FBN offers competitive total compensation packages that include equity, incentive/bonus plans, paid holidays, additional floating holiday, work flexibility including paid time off and remote work if eligible, parental leave, and benefits such as medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, short‑ and long‑term disability, life insurance, 401(k), HSA employer contributions, and more.