Full Stack Engineer

Aerobotics; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerobotics in Cape Town is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to build and scale our AI-powered farming platform, collaborating with product, design and agronomy teams to deliver user-focused features. Join a fast-moving, product-driven environment where you will own features end-to-end, work in-person three days a week, and help bring AI models to growers worldwide.

You should have 5+ years of coding experience in JavaScript/React, Python on the backend, and experience with Postgres/MySQL and React

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies.
• Proficiency with JavaScript, React and web technologies.
• Backend experience with Python.
• Experience with Postgres/MySQL.
• Experience with React Native and iOS is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and proactive mindset.
• Motivation to impact AgTech.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the platform (web, mobile and external API) to support growth.
• Own the development of new customer-facing features end-to-end.
• Collaborate with product, design and agronomy teams to release value-driven products.
• Contribute to long-term technical strategy of products and system.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Python

Relational databases

React Native

iOS experience

AgTech passion

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Job description

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer who loves building new products in an iterative and fast-moving environment. In this role you will be bringing our state-of-the-art AI models to farming operations around the world. Our users include growers, packhouse managers, fruit exporters and business decision makers.

You will collaborate closely with our product team to gain a deep understanding of our users – to bring them the features they want the most. You will play a key role in our effort to deliver technology that solves some of agriculture’s hardest problems.

What you’ll do

• Build and scale the platform (web, mobile and our external api) to handle Aerobotics’s growth and ambitious mission.
• Own the development of new customer-facing features and product experiences end-to-end
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and agronomists to release well-rounded products which add value to our customers.
• Contribute to the long term technical strategy of our products and system.

What you’ll need

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
• Highly proactive & critical approach to problem solving
• Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines
• Ability to work in-person with our team 3 days a week
• Proficiency with JavaScript, React, and other web technologies
• Proficiency with some backend language (we use Python)
• Some experience with relational databases like Postgres/MySQL
• Some experience with cross-platform mobile frameworks like React Native
• iOS mobile app experience is a bonus
• Strong motivation to make an impact in AgTech