Lead Software Engineer AI products

Together, we are on a purpose-driven journey to make a meaningful and lasting impact on the world through our work in cracking biology. Our mission? Make fruit & vegetables available and affordable to more people in a sustainable way. We work with the best and biggest greenhouse growers in the world. As we deeply value the work growers do, we help them by offering AI products that give them superpowers. Our commitment to the grower's satisfaction fuels our drive for excellence.

As the Lead Engineer for one of our AI product teams, you'll be wearing many hats and should feel comfortable switching between different aspects of engineering (backend, data, ML engineering & some frontend), architecture, planning and leading your team.

You will translate the company and product vision and roadmap into robust, scalable and secure SaaS products, together with your team. You do this by collaborating closely with the Product Manager to translate the product roadmap to a technical delivery roadmap. You will lead your team in defining the architecture and setting the technical direction of the products you’re responsible for, ensuring fast-paced delivery and adherence to timelines agreed upon with stakeholders and setting and maintaining technical quality through coding standards and rigorous QA procedures. You will make trade-offs that balance the long-term stability, performance and robustness of the product with the team's on-time delivery of new features.

You will also collaborate closely with the Lead Data Scientist and their team of data scientists to drive productisation of AI models.
You are not afraid to get into the trenches together with your team to solve tough problems and resolve precarious incidents by being hands-on.

As Lead Engineer you are responsible for building a high performing team by leading, managing and coaching this team. You do this by setting clear expectations on outcomes for your team, monitoring progress on delivery of results and consistently giving clear and actionable feedback.

You identify risks to the roadmap and take mitigating actions in time. You ensure that risks to delivery, scalability, robustness or security are communicated in a timely manner to the VP of Engineering.

Lastly, you will closely work with the VP of Engineering to design and create ground-breaking technology. You will be able to do this by defining the technical roadmap and architectural vision for one of the AI products and translating these into a technical roadmap and architecture for your team.

What we'd love you to get excited about

Being a Lead Engineer is a tough but rewarding role. People who thrive in this role, usually get a lot of energy from:

• Technology: you enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and applying them to real-world applications that better the lives of people around the globe

• Product-focus: you care about building software that delights the users and you want to hear from those users how you can make their experience even better

• People: you want to build the best team out there and you rejoice in seeing people grow. You share constructive feedback through radical candor.

• Fast-paced environment: you are able to adapt to changes and switch gears quickly and healthy pressure leads to better results for you. You delight in steady high pacing

You have

• At least 7 years of experience as a Software Engineer

• Experience managing and leading a team (2+ years)

• An open mind. You are able to challenge your peers, stakeholders and team, but are also able to accept another viewpoint when the facts support it and you can disagree and commit

• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development

• A proven track record in developing products and bringing them to production in a secure, robust and scalable way

• Experience building production applications with Golang and Python

• Experience with bringing ML models to production

• Applied knowledge of data engineering best practices

• The drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.

• Experience building and leading engineering teams

• Experienced in setting (technical) roadmaps derived from product strategy.

• Passionate about growing and developing Source.ag

Our tech tools and practices

We use the following tools and practices and it would be great if you know a few of them.

• Programming languages Python, Golang, Typescript

• We work with automated software testing, Continuous Integration, Deployment & Delivery and other Software Engineering best practices

• We work with Computer Science concepts such as data structures, common algorithms and their performance

• SQL and No/NewSQL databases

• We use multiple API paradigms and their design and best practices. For example REST, gRPC and GraphQL

*At Source, we highly value diversity of backgrounds and thoughts. Research has shown that people make different internal assessments of whether they are a good fit for the job. We therefore highly encourage you to apply for this job, even if you feel you might not 'tick all the boxes!

Our offer in return for your talent and skills

To reward your contributions, we offer you:

• A hybrid work environment - we have working days at the office on Mondays and Thursdays which we make awesome

• Paid lunch on the office days

• Flexible hours - always respecting your team & meetings.

• Pension contribution of 4.5%

• Macbook (for the deep tech roles a 16T)

• Curiosity and learning sessions

• Travel allowance for office commute

• Annual learning budget of € 1,000

• Work from home budget of € 550

• Monthly wifi & phone plan reimbursement of € 50

• Unlimited holidays and we expect you at least to take 25 per year

• Source Super Social (S3) - Our Thursday drinks (when possible at the rooftop terrace)

• S4s - per quarter we have a big company event on Friday that includes dinner and special activities

*Please note that if you progress to the final round of our selection process, we will kindly request a reference to help us get to know you better.