Backend / Data Engineer

Ecobloom is a Stockholm-based startup within the area of smart indoor farming. We bring nature closer to people by empowering them to grow their own food in a fun and interactive way. By combining an ancient growing method with modern technology, we hope to revolutionize the way we grow food. We are a small team with a shared vision to help create a better and more sustainable place for future generations. And we look for like-minded people who share the same goal. Is that you?

Responsibilities

• Be a valuable member of our engineering team that focuses on building and delivering high-potential software and hardware products for smart indoor farming - we are a startup, so the ideal candidate will take the initiative to innovate and take responsibility for their work
• Help us build scalable and reliable cloud solutions for our microservice-based software products
• Contribute to the backend architecture of our products by improving on existing features and developing new features from scratch
• Ensure that data acquired by our sensors seamlessly find their way to our databases and data warehouse, and ensure that the quality and the organization of data are suitable for subsequent data analysis
• Contribute your thoroughly tested and well-documented code by utilizing and improving on our robust CI and CD pipelines
• Work closely with our frontend engineers and firmware/hardware engineers

Requirements and Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or in a similar quantitative field with at least 1 year of professional backend or data engineering experience (MSc is viewed as merit)
• Outstanding communication and time-management skills, and the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced work environment
• Professional experience using Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions for version control, and CI/CD
• Professional experience in building backend systems, preferably with Python and Django
• Experience with communication protocols such as HTTP, and Pub/Sub
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform
• Good knowledge of SQL
• Exposure to Javascript, CSS, and HTML that allows for close collaboration with frontend engineers
• Exposure to embedded systems development with C/C++ that allows for close collaboration with firmware/hardware engineers
• Exposure to good practices in software testing

Bonus Points

• Exposure to containerization and container orchestration systems such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Understanding and experience in using machine learning algorithms such as Regression, Naive Bayes, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, and Neural Networks