We’re an international agtech startup aspiring to revolutionize a budding industry where agriculture meets technology. Through the use of data-driven insights, natural microbiology, and innovative digital technologies, Indigo is partnering across the supply chain, ultimately cultivating a scalable climate solution and enhanced ecosystem that beneficially serves farmers, consumers, and the planet alike.

Our mission is unique, and therefore our teams are too: from multigenerational farming experts, who understand the land as though it were an extension of themselves, to cutting-edge technologists and scientists on the frontier of innovation, our teams are a reflection of the range of the stakeholders we serve: the Earth, the Farmer, and the Consumer. Indigo is extraordinary, and we owe that to the people who make up our community and enable success through the diversity of thought, experience, background, perspective, race, sexuality, gender, age, and everything else that makes a person uniquely themselves. Connected by a common vision and empowered by diversity, we aren’t ordinary, and neither are you. Embrace your extraordinary and join Indigo in cultivating a healthier planet fueled by unique game-changers.

The Role

As a Director of Engineering, you will guide a large part of our Engineering team to build the best Software for our Users in a scalable and reliable way, while creating delightful product experiences. The work of your team will span the entirety of the Carbon Farming user journey, Front End and Back End.

The specific mission of Indigo Carbon is to facilitate removing Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere through helping farmers transition to “regenerative” practices, which have been shown to draw carbon from the air into the soil as well as reduce emissions of things like Methane and Nitrous Oxide (this is often called Carbon Farming).

Applying this globally at scale is by some margin the single most powerful decarbonization mechanism currently known.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, and other functional experts to shape a shared, data-driven engineering vision for your Team
• Cultivate a culture of execution excellence and rigor
• Support, develop and grow a healthy Engineering team
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Software Engineers across Carbon and Indigo overall
• Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investments

What you need:

• Have successfully run one or more engineering teams from architecture through release, maintenance, and support
• Are self-directed and enjoy building server-side & client-side applications, as well as figuring out the most important problem to work on
• Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
• Enjoy collaborating across multiple disciplines, including product, design, and data science
• Know how to communicate in a remote-first environment
• Believe in the model of servant leadership and extreme ownership
• You are passionate about creating good user experiences

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering or a similar role
• 3+ years managing software engineering teams
• Experience Managing Managers
• Track record of shipping consumer web applications with end-to-end ownership (Front End and Back End)
• Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance
• Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining, and scaling high-performing teams

Preferred Qualification:

• Ph.D or Masters or a Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related quantitative field 
• Experience in a startup environment
• Experience with Agriculture in some form is a big plus

About Indigo:

We’re building the technology to feed the world and fight climate change. We believe that through teamwork we can achieve more to benefit all of agriculture: from farmers to consumers to the planet.

Game changers don't fit in a box. The requirements listed above are examples of what we think enables success in this role, but we recognize the impossibility of fully capturing a singularly perfect description, and we believe in the power of diversified and creative displays of skills and qualifications. We embrace unconventional. We embrace creativity. We embrace a challenge to the status quo. If the specifications in the list above aren’t an exact match… great! Apply, be you, and be proud that you aren’t ordinary (we certainly aren’t!).

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Generous time off
• Parental leave
• A remote-first organization with flexible work hours
• Commuter benefits
• 401(k) plan

Indigo is committed to living our values, specifically “creating a work environment where everyone feels respected, connected, and has opportunities to learn and grow.” As part of living our values, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels they can be themselves and has an equal opportunity of succeeding.