(Senior) Software Engineer

In today's digital age, instant information is the norm. But this transparency disappears when it comes to consumer products, and their ethical and sustainable production through supply chains. Addressing the global climate challenge and safeguarding both humanity and the planet requires a transformation in food systems.

This is why we built OpenSC.

Co-founded by WWF and The Boston Consulting Group, OpenSC is on a mission to revolutionize the way we buy and produce products by providing data on transparency and traceability for supply chains.

We deliver social and environmental impact by providing supply chain transparency that empowers brands to know, influence, and prove (to third parties) the sustainability of their supply chain practices.

This is achieved through the OpenSC platform, which leverages AI, Blockchain and Remote Sensing technologies to enable automated ingestion, analysis, and sharing of a supply chain's data.

Tasks

• Work on designing, developing and maintaining the OpenSC platform and rolling it out across multiple supply chains globally.
• Work on technical solutions and product ideas in close cooperation with other developers, data engineers and product managers.
• Build scalable, performant and secure web applications and services primarily based on Python and design elegant solutions.
• Maintain and expand existing services and applications based on Spring Boot (Kotlin), React.js and Node.js.
• Contribute to our data pipelines in cooperation with our data engineering team.
• Optimize infrastructure and enhance security within our development environment.
• Promote agile and software best practices and develop effective solutions to real-world challenges.

Our Tech Stack:

• We are cloud-native company and leverage AWS cloud and its services (e.g. EKS, EC2, RDS, SQS/SNS, Lambda, S3, etc.).
• Our APIs are historically built with Spring Boot (Kotlin), but we are looking to become Python-first in our tech stack.
• Our data pipelines are orchestrated by Dagster (Python) with data stored in S3 and Postgres, and transformations written using dbt.
• We build frontend applications in Plotly Dash (Python) and web apps in React.js.
• We deploy our code using CircleCI and Github Actions and use terraform for infrastructure deployment.
• Our blockchain component is developed with Node.js and integrates third-party services such as IPFS and Ethereum.

Requirements

• Passion and desire to work on sustainability topics and ethical production within supply chains.
• Proficiency in writing production-quality code using modern Python-based web application frameworks.
• Deep understanding of backend software architecture and API design principles.
• Expertise in cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, GCP/Azure), including proficiency with cloud services such as storage, compute, networking, monitoring, and more.
• Experience in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with frontend concepts and paradigms, encompassing a deep understanding of modern frameworks, responsive design principles, user interface (UI) patterns, and best practices in web development.
• Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices (e.g. test-driven development, code reviews, design documentation, etc.)
• Strong focus on product priorities while maintaining a balance between user-centric perspectives and broader organizational needs.
• Experience collaborating in a cross-functional environment with data engineers and product managers.
• You thrive in dynamic environments and are eager to contribute to shaping an early-stage product.
• Experience with Spring Boot/Kotlin, Node.js, React.js, and data pipelines is advantageous.