About the position

About Meridia

Meridia is your data partner for structured, accurate and reliable field data. Meridia has the expertise and technology to offer accurate and reliable field data solutions and services at scale for smallholder supply chains.

Most smallholders struggle to earn a living income, fueling the deforestation and biodiversity crisis. Reliable field data is needed to drive the transformation toward confronting these challenges. To ensure strict compliance with regulations and practices, they closely work with governments and traditional authorities.

Meridia focuses on three themes: traceability and transparency, living income, and regenerative agriculture. As experts on field data quality, they help agribusinesses obtain, use, and verify reliable field data for operations, compliance and reporting. Depending on your needs, they offer different services.

About the role

• Implement new APIs involving multiple micro services
• Write enough unit tests to ensure non-regression but not too many that prevent future evolutions
• Optimize performances such as partial search on complex data sets
• Design data schema evolutions balancing schema and schema-less options
• Identify part of the legacy code base that could be refactored in order to simplify maintenance
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs; Review Pull requests from other team members
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Designing, building, and maintaining high performance, reusable, and reliable Java/Kotlin code
• Ensuring the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Identifying and correcting bottlenecks and fixing bugs

Ideal candidate

• 3+ years in the role of full stack software developer
• Experience maintaining an online production service is mandatory
• Experience in Agile methodologies, code reviews, unit testing and user stories
• Good verbal and written communication in English
• Experience working in remote teams through Git, Pull Requests, Mattermost or Slack
• Solid experience of a web framework including ORM and complex access right management
• Experience with Python (Flask, Django) and React
• Experience in working with AWS, Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience building web apps involving GIS and interactive maps is a big plus
• Ability to translate user stories into wireframes and simple UI is a plus

Why you should join Meridia

• 👩🏻‍💻 👨🏻‍💻 Mission driven company with powerhouse founders
• 🏡 🖥️ Remote friendly work culture
• 👨‍💻 Work on latest tech stacks that delivers business impact
• 💰 Competitive salary and Performance bonus