FarmRaise

Role Description FarmRaise is hiring a Principal Product Engineer who will report to Cory McArthur, our Head of Product. In this role, you will: - Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to identify where AI can deliver immediate user value (e.g., financial insights, sustainability compliance checks, farm-specific recommendations). - Lead efforts in maintaining SOC-2 Compliance. - Drive the long-term technical direction for AI-enabled features across our platform, from computer vision to data parsing to intelligent recommendations. - Define technical specs for features and target dates, ensuring alignment between product and engineering teams. - Define architectural patterns for the platform, ensuring scalability and reliability. - Provide technical leadership across teams, set engineering standards, mentor others, and raise the bar for the org. - Collaborate as needed with stakeholders to clarify goals and drive product development. - Contribute across the entire stack, from front-end to back-end, databases, and deployment. - Engage in code reviews and design discussions to raise team standards for lean, effective development. Qualifications - You’ve successfully scaled startups from Seed to Series B in an engineering role. - Depth in one area (e.g., backend systems, databases, or DevOps) paired with the ability to work across the full stack. - You have hands-on experience or familiarity with some of the following technologies: - Frontend: React, Typescript, Next.js, Dart, Flutter - Backend: Node.js, Kotlin, Spring Boot - Cloud: AWS, GCP (Firestore, Cloud Functions) - DevOps: Service configuration, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and deployment automation - Bonus points for: - Strong expertise in backend systems and DevOps (especially if you can teach us a thing or two about deploying and monitoring AI services at scale). - Experience leading small, focused teams in delivering key features quickly. - Ability to maintain code quality and raise team standards via reviews and design discussions. - Experience integrating LLMs or CV models. - Knowledge of OCR, text extraction, or computer vision pipelines. Requirements - Startup Experience: You’ve played an engineering role in scaling a startup from seed to Series B. - Comfortable with Ambiguity: When plans aren’t fully formed, you step up to collaborate with PMs or business stakeholders to shape them. - Independent Problem Solver: When blockers arise, you’re not afraid to get involved in PM or design if needed to keep things moving. - T-shaped Engineer: You have deep expertise in one area (e.g., specific backends, databases, or dev ops) but are comfortable working across the entire stack when necessary. - Technical Leadership: You enjoy leading small project teams and can mentor others in writing efficient, clean, and scalable code. Benefits - Compensation $200,000 - $230,000 per year and equity granted via the company’s employee stock option pool. - Fully remote with regular all-team retreats. - Excellent benefits including health insurance, coworking stipend, educational stipend, and 401K with full company match. What Success Looks Like In three months: - You understand how our software fits together, have shipped multiple features across the platform, and gained confidence working within our codebases. - You’ve built trust with our team by bringing clarity to technical decision-making and shaping an AI roadmap. In six months: - You’re planning and executing features that align with both business and architectural goals. - You are establishing architectural guidelines and influencing the roadmap to reflect technical realities. - You’ve elevated our engineering culture by introducing tools, frameworks, and best practices for AI-native development. - You’re owning features end-to-end and contributing to others' projects. In nine months: - You’ve launched production-level AI workflows that save farmers time and unlock measurable financial outcomes. - You’re influencing technical strategy, introducing scalable practices, and raising org-wide engineering quality. - You are anticipating technical debt, proactively shaping the roadmap, and ensuring today’s solutions have a plan for scalability. - You’re a resource for others in key areas of our codebase. - You’re elevating the team’s performance through reviews, mentorship, and leadership, driving innovation in both process and product. What to Expect - A close-knit, fully remote team with regular pairing sessions and opportunities for connection. - A high-autonomy role where you can take ownership of projects. - A chance to help shape the engineering team as we grow. - Collaboration with product, design, and business teams to build meaningful solutions. - A remote-first, flexible work environment.

About Us FarmRaise is revolutionizing agriculture by transforming raw farm data into actionable intelligence. Our platform ingests agronomic, financial, and imagery data and produces clean, structured insights that power financial access, compliance, and sustainability outcomes. Each day, we’re building data infrastructure that make farm operations smarter and more resilient. Our team moves fast, does more with less, and is motivated by driving outcomes that truly matter. We’ve grown to tens of thousands of producers organically and partnered with agricultural lenders, buyers, and regulators including Blue Diamond Growers, BTC Bank, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. We’re featured as the best all-around farm accounting solution by Nerdwallet and are backed by top investors such as Pear VC, Accel, Susa Ventures, and Better Tomorrow Ventures. Our team includes farmers, farmers’ kids, and technologists passionate about building a more profitable, sustainable future for agriculture. About the Role FarmRaise is hiring a Program Manager to own our USDA Farm Service Agency Educational Hub -- the most strategically important initiative in our business. This person ensures the Hub delivers genuine value to producers and the Farm Service Agency (FSA), and leads the work that makes our ongoing collaboration clear and compelling. This is not a coordinator role. You own outcomes, including: - Program Execution. Drive the Hub roadmap. Coordinate engineering, content, and partners. Ship deliverables on schedule, every time. - Producer Experience. Identify gaps in how farmers navigate FSA programs. Fix them. Connect Hub resources to Tracks workflows where it makes producers' lives easier. - Agency Partnership. Serve as our primary operational contact with FSA. Keep agency partners informed, aligned, and confident in FarmRaise as a long-term collaborator. - Metrics and Storytelling. Track engagement. Translate usage data into a clear impact narrative. Make the case for ongoing partnership undeniable. - Program Expansion. Build the evidence. Support the conversation. Help expand the program's reach. You Will: - Engage directly with FSA stakeholders to gather insights and ensure Hub content remains accurate, relevant, and aligned with current programs and priorities - Own ongoing content updates within Webflow, including editing and maintaining existing pages - Build and launch basic, no-code webpages in Webflow to support new Hub resources and workflows - Review and score farmer coursework associated with FSA loan borrower training - Own and deliver bi-annual reporting requirements, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with cooperative agreement expectations - Learn and utilize JotForm to support Hub content and workflows, including building and managing forms as needed - Leverage Google Analytics to analyze and report on Hub usage data Comp and Benefits - Compensation: $120,000-$130,000 per year and equity granted via the company’s employee stock option pool. - A close-knit, fully remote team with regular pairing sessions and opportunities for connection. - Excellent benefits including health insurance, co-working stipend, educational stipend, and 401K with full company match. - Collaboration with product, design, and business teams to build meaningful solutions. - Spending your time on something that matters, with a team that is passionate about shaping the future of agriculture. About You You are a builder who moves quickly and cares about agriculture. You have managed complex programs from concept through completion, worked constructively with institutional partners, and held yourself accountable to measurable outcomes.The ideal candidate is eager to jump in and personally construct intake forms and producer-facing workflows using low-code tools to supplement engineering output. Comfortable with Google analytics, low-code tooling, and learning new platforms on the fly, you get energy from figuring things out when no clear roadmap exists and time is limited. You do not need a government background. You do need the judgment to move at startup speed while treating federal agency partners with the respect and care that relationship deserves. The best candidates have built things, hit targets, and measured their own results. We are looking for someone who came up in an environment where performance was tracked and outcomes were expected. Backgrounds that tend to produce strong candidates: - Management or strategy consulting. You have navigated complex client relationships, distilled ambiguous problems into clear action plans, and delivered under deadline. You know how to work with institutional stakeholders without moving at an institutional pace. - Agricultural technology or agri-business. You have worked inside a fast-moving company that serves farmers, ag retailers, or rural communities. You understand the cadence of agricultural decision-making and what it takes to earn trust in this industry. - Early-stage startup generalist. You have worn five hats at once, figured things out without a playbook, and delivered in an environment where nobody was going to do it for you. - Government-adjacent program management in a private context -- a think tank, policy consultancy, or public-private initiative -- is a plus, but only if you moved with urgency and held yourself accountable to real outcomes. What Success Looks Like - Days 1 to 14 -- Audit and Align Read the cooperative agreement. Audit the Hub. Map the producer journey through key FSA programs. Meet USDA contacts and establish alignment on priorities. Deliver a prioritized roadmap and release calendar by Day 14. - Days 15 to 60 -- Execute and Demonstrate Value Close the most critical content and workflow gaps. Launch Hub-to-Tracks connection points. Implement engagement analytics. Deliver a proactive mid-cycle update to FSA partners summarizing progress and upcoming improvements -- before anyone asks for it. - Days 61 to 90 -- Position for Expansion Compile the impact narrative. Document producer outcomes and program access improvements. Build an expansion proposal with leadership. Support conversations with USDA and ensure nothing is left to chance. Success at 90 Days - Expansion conversation active and in alignment with USDA priorities - Priority content gaps closed - Hub-to-Tracks engagement improving - Zero missed cooperative agreement deliverables - FSA relationship strong, with no unaddressed concerns Why This Role Matters The FSA Hub helps 80,000 American producers navigate USDA farm programs. For many of them, it is a primary resource for understanding programs that directly affect their livelihood and their land.If this role succeeds, the Hub becomes foundational infrastructure for how America's farmers access federal agricultural support -- and FarmRaise becomes a trusted long-term partner to the agencies that serve them. We are looking for someone who understands that weight and runs toward it.

FarmRaise is revolutionizing agriculture by transforming raw farm data into actionable intelligence. Our platform ingests agronomic, financial, and imagery data - from a farmer’s phone camera to their bank feed - and produces clean, structured insights that power financial access, compliance, and sustainability outcomes. At FarmRaise, our mission is to transform half of America’s cropland to sustainable practices by 2030 . Each day, we’re building data infrastructure and AI-powered tools that make farm operations smarter and more resilient. Our team moves fast, does more with less, and is motivated by driving outcomes that truly matter. With a lean team and minimal budget, we’ve attracted tens of thousands of producers organically and partnered with agricultural lenders, buyers, and regulators including Blue Diamond Growers , BTC Bank , and the U.S. Department of Agriculture . We’re featured as the best all-around farm accounting solution by Nerdwallet and are backed by top investors such as Pear VC, Accel, Susa Ventures, and Better Tomorrow Ventures . Our team includes farmers, farmers’ kids, and technologists passionate about building a more profitable, sustainable future for agriculture. ABOUT YOU You’re obsessed with building AI-driven products that make a tangible difference in the real world. You’ve scaled early-stage startups from seed to Series B and thrive where technology meets messy, real-world data. You want to work on products that see, understand, and act — where machine learning meets everyday use. Startup Experience : You’ve played an engineering role in scaling a startup from Seed to Series B. Comfortable with Ambiguity : When plans aren’t fully formed, you step up to collaborate with PMs or business stakeholders to shape them. You don’t wait for perfect processes before getting started and thrive in a rapidly evolving environment. Independent Problem Solver : When blockers arise, you’re not afraid to get involved in PM or design if needed to keep things moving. Ambitious: you like to think big and achieve outcomes that drive real impact. THE HIGHLIGHTS FarmRaise is hiring a Senior Software Engineer who will report to Cory McArthur , Head of Product In this role, you will: Collaborate with a small team of engineers, working closely to build high-quality, impactful features. Take ownership of features and contribute across the stack, from frontend to backend and deployment. Participate in technical discussions and code reviews to help maintain quality and alignment across the team. Engage with product and design teams to clarify business goals and ensure smooth execution of features. Compensation: $145,000 to $165,000 per year and equity granted via the company’s employee stock option pool. Fully remote with regular all-team retreats. Excellent benefits including health insurance, co-working stipend, educational stipend, and 401K with full company match. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE In three months You’ve shipped multiple features across the platform and gained confidence working within our codebases. You’ve built trust with engineers and leadership by bringing clarity to technical decision-making. In six months You’re confidently working across different parts of the platform, planning and executing features collaboratively with other engineers. You’re taking ownership of projects, working cross-functionally to get the right thing built efficiently. In nine months You’re regularly driving features and projects from start to finish. You’ve established yourself as a key contributor in both coding and decision-making, helping shape the future of our platform. BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE We’re looking for a teammate who has the following experiences, tools, and skills, but we encourage all applicants to apply even if these aspects don’t apply to you! You have significant experience building and shipping features in a fast-paced, early startup environment. You have hands-on experience or familiarity with some of the following technologies: Frontend: React, Typescript, Next.js, Dart, Flutter Backend: Node.js, Kotlin, Spring Boot Cloud: AWS, GCP (Firestore, Cloud Functions) DevOps: Service configuration, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and deployment automation Bonus points for: Strong expertise in backend systems and DevOps (especially if you can teach us a thing or two) Experience working cross-functionally on small, focused teams Experience building AI-native applications WHAT TO EXPECT A close-knit, fully remote team with regular pairing sessions and opportunities for connection. A high-autonomy role where you can take ownership of projects. A chance to help shape the engineering team as we grow. Collaboration with product, design, and business teams to build meaningful solutions. A remote-first, flexible work environment.