🚀 We’re Hiring! Come join a soil health software startup that in under a year has signed up over 5% of England’s farmland 🌍
💻 We’re hiring a Full-Stack Developer, but before I dive into the details, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come and explain a bit about who you’d be joining.
It all started with an idea: Could we make soil data more useful for farmers? To be honest, back then, Benjamin Butler and I weren’t exactly sure what the product would actually be 😬. But with some funding from Innovate UK, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Ordnance Survey, and most importantly the trust of some incredibly patient pilot farmers, we got started. I spent lots of days in farm offices (Sophie, Simon, Chris ☕) transcribing old soil samples, while Ben spun them up into interactive maps.
But we soon realised that it was actually agronomists rather than farmers who saw the most potential in what we were doing. And when the hashtag#SustainableFarmingIncentive was announced in July 2023, we knew we were onto something. By the time the tenth agronomist called to say these new Soil Management Plans looked like they would be a real pain to do at scale, we dropped everything else and focused on solving that.
We hired Henry and got to work with a fantastic group of agronomist beta-testers (too many to namecheck here but you know who you are 🙏). We went live in November 2023, made our first sale that afternoon, and now we’re proud to work with over 5.2% of all England’s farmland. 35% of the 1900+ farms using the platform pay for premium access to full Soil Management Plans, meaning we actually hit profitability in the summer and Sabrina came on board! 🎉
But our customers have been asking for the platform to do more. They want our intuitive, map based interface to produce Manure and Nutrient Management Plans. We’ve just closed an over-subscribed seed round to make that happen. We’re proud to say that 8 out of our 9 investors are farmers themselves, including Sir Richard Sutton Limited (SRSL) who were actually one of those very first pilot farms. They have a vested interest in us shipping these new features ASAP. The wonderful team at SFC Capital have also followed-on their previous investment.
Now, we’re looking for a Full-Stack Developer to help us build these features and more. You’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our platform and improving soil health at scale.
We’re not looking for experience so much as for someone:
🌱 Passionate about / motivated by what we're doing 🪱
💡 Curious and good at problem solving - more interested in this than whether you've worked in our whole techstack before
🤝 We want to work / spend time with
If that sounds like you, check out the role and apply today. 🚜
