tankdoan

Worked with this team at FBN, and can't recommend them enough. Some of the best engineers I've ever known. More importantly, they're incredibly sincere and kind.

In any case, you won't find silicon valley involving themselves with shaving of a hundredth of a percent on a tiny margin on producing glorified pig food. There are no 10x returns doing that. It's a race to the bottom.

Full disclosure, current employee. Farmers Business Network (fbn.com) is in SV operating in this space. Farmers take on huge amounts of risk, and we're helping them better their bottom lines. We try to make them more efficient (you can spray less of X here), save the money on their inputs, and help them find better prices when they go to market.

I’m an engineer at FBN.

We do more than data these days; it’s best to say we do anything we can to help farmers’ bottom line.

In the past year or so we’ve started offering health insurance, started a seed company, and brokerage.

That means we can help farmers with their inputs before the season, decisions during the season with data analysis, and selling outputs afterwords.

And of course we’re hiring!

Farmers Business Network℠ | Backend Engineer | San Carlos, CA | Fulltime, ONSITE

At Farmers Business Network, we’re democratizing information from thousands of farmers to help them make better decisions in an opaque market. With the world’s largest unbiased agricultural dataset, we’ve disrupted the industry with our products including:

  * FBN Direct: Our online store for chemical inputs saves our members tens of thousands of dollars by surfacing market data, alternative products, and transparent pricing 
  * Seed Finder: Provides agricultural analytics for better decisions, and economic analytics to keep them from being ripped off 
  * Profit Center: Provides up to date local market data and analysis, saving members time and helping them find better deals

Your Role Agriculture combines complex biological, mechanical, meteorological, chemical, and economic systems. Our team needs help with:

  * Building infrastructure to efficiently process, transform, and analyze large amounts of data from these systems 
  * Building services to enable farmers to derive insights and take actions based our unique dataset 
  * Enabling our data science team to perform complex analyses

Our Stack/Buzzwords: AWS, Big Data, Docker, Python, React, Agriculture

Python, React, R, and we're actively killing off PHP. Infrastructure is AWS and Docker. Unfortunately, the company is not pro-remote :(

Sure thing. I was blown away with the intelligence, experience, and humility of the people on the engineering team when interviewing. I went into the process thinking "this could be cool, I like the mission" and left the process with "These people are really sharp and down to earth, I hope this happens." Since we're a small team here (<10) I get to learn something from them every day.

I don't want to make it sound like I'm bashing my old team, because they very good at the layer they work on. The depth of knowledge across the stack is probably deeper at FBN. For example:

I was having an issue with Hibernate not doing what I wanted it to do. A knowledgable former team member showed me the bug ticket that had been open for some years and how to work around it.

At FBN, my first project involved multiple systems + the front end, a I was annoyed by a networking issue. I raised it, was showed a workaround by using socat, and the root cause was fixed a couple days later. I had no idea socat even existed.

Ex Netflix.

Joined a promising startup with 1 - Great mission 2 - Impressive engineering culture 3 - Super boring name: Farmers Business Network

FBN is the only reason I haven't moved away from the Bay Area.

We're hiring too, if anybody wants to shoot me an email I'll forward it along. tan@farmersbusinessnetwork.com

Farmers Business Network℠ | Backend Engineer | San Carlos, CA | Fulltime, ONSITE

Our Company

At Farmers Business Network, we’re democratizing information from thousands of farmers to help them make better decisions in an opaque market. With the world’s largest unbiased agricultural dataset, we’ve disrupted the industry with our products including:

* FBN Direct: Our online store for chemical inputs saves our members tens of thousands of dollars by surfacing market data, alternative products, and transparent pricing * Seed Finder: Provides agricultural analytics for better decisions, and economic analytics to keep them from being ripped off * Profit Center: Provides up to date local market data and analysis, saving members time and helping them find better deals

We’re upsetting the status quo, and our members and investors (Series D 190 mil) to love us for that.

Your Role Agriculture combines complex biological, mechanical, meteorological, chemical, and economic systems. Our engineering team needs help with:

* Building infrastructure to efficiently process, transform, and analyze large amounts of data from these systems * Building services to enable farmers to derive insights and take actions based our unique dataset * Enabling our data science team to perform complex analyses

Apply:https://boards.greenhouse.io/farmersbusinessnetwork/jobs/200... Or email me at tan+hn@farmersbusinessnetwork.com

Our Stack/Buzzwords: AWS, Big Data, Docker, Python, React, Agriculture

Farmers Business Network℠ | Backend Engineer | San Carlos, CA | Fulltime, ONSITE

Our Company

At Farmers Business Network, we’re democratizing information from thousands of farmers to help them make better decisions in an opaque market. With the world’s largest unbiased agricultural dataset, we’ve disrupted the industry with our products including:

* FBN Direct: Our online store for chemical inputs saves our members tens of thousands of dollars by surfacing market data, alternative products, and transparent pricing * Seed Finder: Provides agricultural analytics for better decisions, and economic analytics to keep them from being ripped off * Profit Center: Provides up to date local market data and analysis, saving members time and helping them find better deals

We’re upsetting the status quo, and our members and investors (Series D 190 mil) to love us for that.

Your Role Agriculture combines complex biological, mechanical, meteorological, chemical, and economic systems. Our engineering team needs help with:

* Building infrastructure to efficiently process, transform, and analyze large amounts of data from these systems * Building services to enable farmers to derive insights and take actions based our unique dataset * Enabling our data science team to perform complex analyses

Apply:https://boards.greenhouse.io/farmersbusinessnetwork/jobs/200... Or email me at tan+hn@farmersbusinessnetwork.com

Our Stack/Buzzwords: AWS, Big Data, Docker, Python, React, Agriculture