Enveritas

Backend Software Engineer - Python/Postgres [Remote / Global]

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4 months ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
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Base Salary

$135k - $155k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain backend features and services for the EUDR engineering team.
  • Ingest, validate, and transform customer-submitted farm lists and run them against deforestation detection models and geospatial datasets.
  • Refine geospatial workflows and strengthen data checks, error handling, observability, and system resilience.
  • Investigate reported issues by tracing data, assumptions, and system behavior to identify and implement fixes.
  • Translate ambiguous or evolving business and regulatory requirements into practical engineering work.
  • Interpret EU regulatory updates and adapt systems to remain consistent and compliant.
  • Apply and maintain Terraform-based changes in AWS for the services supported by the role.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with support and other internal teams.

Requirements

  • Strong ability to explain complex ideas clearly to non-technical colleagues.
  • Ability to apply design patterns to create modular, efficient software and teach others to solve architectural problems.
  • Extensive Python experience developing applications and performing complex data processing, with familiarity with Django or Flask.
  • Advanced PostgreSQL experience including query optimization, joins, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
  • Practical experience with Linux, Bash scripting, Docker containers, and AWS services including EC2, RDS, and CloudFront.
  • At least seven years of full-time professional experience as a backend software engineer.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent training in software engineering principles.
  • Comfort working remotely and independently as an individual contributor in an ambiguous, evolving environment.
  • Empathy for users and interest in sustainability and improving the lives of smallholder coffee farmers.

Benefits

  • Fully distributed remote/global work arrangement with core hours from 10am to 2pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
  • Full-time exempt position.
  • US-based hires receive 401k matching, Medical/Dental/Vision coverage, and a Flexible Spending Account.
  • Four weeks of vacation plus 13 standard holidays and personal/sick time for US-based hires.
  • Annual all-company and group retreats.
  • Annual education budget for conferences, books, and professional development.
  • Field visits to country operations teams in coffee-growing countries.

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About Enveritas

51-200 employees

Enveritas is the independent nonprofit working to lift smallholder farmers out of poverty and protect the environment for the next generation. Founded in 2016, we do field certification at origin, based on social, environmental and economic standards, grounded in UN conventions and ILO treaties. Certification is free for farmers and paid for by roasters. Millions of farms are incorporated in our system, and we work with many of the world’s leading roasters. Follow this page for analysis and findings from our team in the field.