Cropwise Operations

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer o join the AgInsights Platform team.

The platform enables data-driven decision-making in agriculture by integrating agronomic and machine learning models into scalable cloud-native services.

You will play a key role in building and scaling the AgInsights Platform, developing backend services, integrating agronomic models, and improving the tooling and infrastructure that enable data-driven decision-making in agriculture. This is a hands-on engineering role with real ownership, where you will work across platform and model boundaries to deliver reliable, production-ready systems in a largely greenfield environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs (e.g., using FastAPI)
• Integrate and operationalise agronomic and data-driven models
• Design and implement data workflows (e.g., with Apache Airflow)
• Develop and improve internal tooling, SDKs, and developer experience
• Deploy and operate services in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services)
• Contribute to CI/CD and GitOps practices (e.g., CircleCI, Argo CD)
• Improve observability, monitoring, and system reliability

• Collaborate closely with data scientists, model developers, and platform engineers

   

Requirements

• 4+ years of commercial experience with Python
• 3+ years of experience with FastAPI
• Experience with Redis and Celery
• 3+ years of experience with Pandas
• Experience with Apache Airflow and data orchestration
• Solid experience with AWS cloud services

• Upper-Intermediate English or higher

   

Nice to Have

• Experience with machine learning platforms or MLOps practices
• Experience with data engineering and large-scale data processing
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD
• Experience in AgTech, agriculture, geospatial, or environmental data domains

About the Role  

The Product Manager for the Farm Management System (FMS) is responsible for translating strategic objectives and diverse stakeholder needs into clear, structured, and implementable software requirements.  

This role operates at the intersection of:  

• Global product strategy  
• Regional commercial needs  
• Large grower requirements  
• Engineering constraints  
• Integration partners (machinery, satellite, APIs)  

Approximately 70% of the role is focused on writing and maintaining high-quality software requirements, ensuring clarity, feasibility, and alignment with long-term product direction.  

This is a highly structured, detail-oriented product role with strong emphasis on prioritisation, scope control, and execution excellence.  

Key Responsibilities 

Feature Intake & Stakeholder Management  

• Collect feature requests from:  
• Commercial units (CUs)  
• Large growers  
• CP / Seeds business units  
• Customer success  
• Engineering  
• Integration partners  
• Clarify problem statements and expected business outcomes  
• Challenge unclear or misaligned requests  
• Identify overlaps, duplication, and local customizations  

Deliverable:  

• Structured feature intake documentation  

• Clear problem framing before development discussion 

   

Prioritisation & Strategic Alignment  

• Evaluate requests based on:  
• Strategic fit with FMS roadmap  
• Revenue impact  
• Adoption impact  
• Technical complexity  
• Global scalability  
• Regulatory / country constraints  
• Maintain and continuously refine prioritisation frameworks (e.g., RICE, Value vs Effort, Strategic Fit scoring)  
• Protect roadmap integrity against reactive feature creep  

Deliverable:  

• Transparent prioritisation model  
• Quarterly roadmap aligned with global product strategy  
• Executive-ready justification of decisions  

Software Requirements Definition (Primary Focus ~70%)  

The core of the role.  

• Translate approved features into:  
• Clear functional requirements  
• Non-functional requirements  
• Acceptance criteria  
• User flows  
• Edge cases  
• Define system behavior across:  
• Web  
• Mobile  
• API  
• Integrations (e.g., machinery, satellite, telematics)  
• Collaborate closely with UX to ensure usability consistency  
• Ensure alignment with architecture and technical constraints  
• Maintain structured documentation (e.g., Jira, Confluence, PRDs)  

Deliverable:  

• High-quality Product Requirement Documents (PRDs)  
• Detailed user stories with acceptance criteria  
• Reduced ambiguity for engineering teams  
• Minimal rework due to unclear specs  

Success metric:  

• Low development rework rate  
• Clear estimation cycles  
• Predictable delivery  

Cross-Functional Delivery Support  

• Work closely with:  
• Engineering  
• UX  
• Data science  
• DevOps  
• Integration teams  
• Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, and refinement  
• Clarify requirements during implementation  
• Validate feature behavior before release  

Deliverable:  

• High implementation clarity  
• Reduced requirement interpretation gaps  

Product Governance & Scalability  

• Ensure global consistency across countries  
• Avoid fragmentation of FMS core  
• Promote reusable, scalable feature design  
• Drive modular architecture thinking  

Required Skills and Qualifications 

Product Skills  

• Strong experience writing detailed software requirements  
• Experience in complex SaaS platforms  
• Ability to structure ambiguous inputs into precise specifications  
• Strong backlog management discipline  

• Advanced prioritisation and scope control capability  

   

Technical Understanding  

• Understanding of:  
• APIs  
• Data flows  
• Integrations  
• Enterprise SaaS architectures  

• Ability to discuss technical trade-offs with engineering  

   

Stakeholder Management  

• Comfortable handling conflicting requests  
• Able to say “no” with structured justification  

• Strong executive communication  

   

Domain Knowledge (Preferred)  

• Farm Management Systems / ERP  
• Agronomy workflows  
• Machinery integrations  
• Telematics  
• Enterprise growers  

The Company Offers  

Opportunity to be a part of a best-in-class product that is used by thousands of companies around the world.   

• Annual performance bonus scheme.   
• Career growth opportunities.   
• An environment where you need to seek and implement unique solutions.   
• Training and development programs.   
• Young and dynamic team with a friendly and open culture.   
• Health and life insurance for employees and your family members.   
• 32 working days of paid annual leave and sick leave. 

Cropwise Operations is a global leader in digital agritech solutions, operating in over 50 countries and helping optimize business processes and improve the efficiency of agronomic decision-making.  

We are looking for a skilled Ruby on Rails Developer to join our team.

What we expect from a candidate:

- Preferably 3+ years of Ruby on Rails development experience.

- Strong knowledge of Rails.

- Experience with testing frameworks like RSpec and Capybara.

- Testing with RSpec/Capybara.

- Basic knowledge of ES6 + React.js.

- Experience with JavaScript.

- Standard Rails application deployment stack (Git, CI, Capistrano, *nix).

- Knowledge of HTML/CSS.

What exactly will you need to work with:

- Backend on Ruby on Rails 7.0 (Ruby 3.2).

- PostgreSQL + PostGIS database (handling large geospatial datasets).

- Job processing with Resque + Redis.

- Testing on RSpec + Capybara + CI.

- Partially frontend on React.js (ES6, JSX).

What else can you work with?

- Algorithms for processing large amounts of geodata.

- Reception and processing of binary data (Ruby eventmachine).

- Working with RabbitMQ.

- AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes.

- Visualization and work with geodata on the frontend (Mapbox GL JS).

Hiring process:

- Intro call;

- Test Task;

- Final Interview;

- Offer.

The company offers:

- Opportunity to be a part of a best-in-class product that is used by thousands of companies around the world.

- Participation in complex technical tasks and challenges.

- Environment where you need to seek and implement unique engineering and technical solutions.

- Trainings and development programs.

- Flexible work formats: remote, office or hybrid.

- Health and life insurance for employees and your family members.

- 32 working days of paid annual leave and sick leave.

About Cropwise Operations

Cropwise Operations is a SaaS platform for farmers, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as computer vision, big data, and AI to deliver actionable insights and improve agricultural outcomes.

For seekers, cooperation with Cropwise Operations is an opportunity to be part of a best-in-class product used by hundreds of companies around the world, and to deal with complex technical tasks in the field of neural networks and machine learning with the need to constantly improve their knowledge and skills, to find and implement unique engineering and technical solutions.

Cropwise Operations is part of Syngenta Digital, the technology arm of one of the world's largest agriculture companies. We build a mobile app that helps agronomists across 50+ countries plan planting, protect crops, and manage harvest – powered by satellite data and machine learning, and built to work fully offline.

We're looking for a skilled Android Engineer to join our team and take part in building this app. You'll work on geolocation-heavy features, offline-first architecture, and performance-critical components – and help farmers around the world make better decisions.

Must-Have Skills:

- Android SDK

- Kotlin

- Kotlin Coroutines

- Jetpack Compose

- Experience with local data storage on Android (SQLite, Room, or similar ORM)

- 3+ years of commercial Android development

Will be a benefit:

- Experience with Java

- Familiarity with Mapbox SDK (geospatial development)

- Knowledge of RxJava

- Experience with dependency injection: Dagger/Hilt or Koin

- Proficiency in testing tools: Mockito, JUnit, UI testing frameworks

- Experience with Android NDK

- Familiarity with profiling tools for performance and memory analysis

- Hands-on SQL knowledge: writing complex queries, designing schema, handling migrations

- Hands-on experience with agentic engineering: using AI agents for code refactoring, codebase research, or feature delivery

- Experience with process automation: CI/CD pipelines, build and release automation, scripting for repetitive engineering tasks

- Experience refactoring and modernizing legacy Android codebases (View → Compose, RxJava → Coroutines, MVVM → MVI/UDF migrations)

What you'll work on:

- Development of a mobile application that interacts with a SaaS platform for agronomic data processing

- Integration with geolocation and mapping services (Mapbox, GPS, etc.)

- Implementation of UI components using Jetpack Compose

- Working with offline data storage and synchronization

- Optimizing app performance using profiling tools and NDK where needed

- Working with a mature production codebase – including refactoring and modernization of legacy parts as part of ongoing architecture work

The company offers:

- Continuous learning through training and development programs

- Flexible work format: remote, office, or hybrid

- Health and life insurance for employees and their family members

- 32 working days of paid annual leave and sick leave