“We promise to create a more sustainable farming world through the use of data technology”
Sapien Technology
Sapien Technology is one of the leading technology companies in Australia’s agriculture space (and will eventually be leading around the world). The data collected by Sapien’s individual animal management software and supply chain technology allows farmers to make better decisions and run more efficient operations.
Key Points
- Role
- Lead Software Engineer
- Location
- Ashburton, Melbourne (with work from home options)
- Tech Stack
- .Net & Azure
- Company Size
- 12
Who is Sapien Technology?
Sapien’s CEO, Rob, grew up on sheep & cattle farms in Australia and knows the livestock industry inside and out. 20 years ago, his engineering and entrepreneurial mindset built a piece of software that collected data on all the livestock to ultimately improve the way they were running the farm. 20 years on, Sapien is used by farmers across the whole of Australia and is a huge part of their success in running more sustainable farms.
With Rob’s extensive network in the agricultural industry, Sapien’s goal is to bring their product to new heights and release a new and exciting platform, not only for the Australian agriculture industry but to farmers all over the world.
Presently they are generating $ 2 million in revenue, which they are confident can be grown within their 3-5 year roadmap. One of their goals to achieve revenue growth is to build a new product to take to market by mid-2024. At this point, they will be in a position to scale the business, in particular their product, design, and engineering teams.
Lead Software Engineer
You’ll play an integral role in the team and be fully involved in product discovery, help set the technical strategy and advise the team on the best approach to tackle this huge modernisation. You’ll recommend the best course of action from a technology standpoint so you’ll need strong influential skills in order to bring the team on the journey with you and support them in up-skilling and learning engineering best practices.
What makes this role so exciting is the opportunity to modernise Sapien’s existing stack, and drive further adoption of modern software architecture and cloud-native applications. Whoever takes on this role will have the creative freedom to build new architecture and flex their Engineering muscles to introduce modern practices and technology to transform the product. Think: domain driven design practices, huge amounts of data, serverless cloud technology, event-sourcing architecture, cqrs, adoption of CI/CD pipelines, APIs and more.
What’s special about this role?
Exposure to modern technology in an agile environment
Work closely with a Director who believes in building empowered, self-sustaining teams and has experience building global products and SaaS teams
Focus on Development and Career Growth
An opportunity to up-lift and modernise the engineering environment and eventually scale a team around you
Build a Product that is Socially Impactful
There are a number of AgTech companies out there but none as embedded in the Agriculture community as Sapien
The Details
The Team
The team at Sapien is currently 12 people with 3 backend engineers in the engineering team.
You'll have the exciting opportunity to work with the Product & Technology Director to help shape and uplift the future of the engineering landscape through your own experiences working in a modern tech environment.
This is a key role and one of the first hires in the team that will influence what the new technology environment looks like once they have bought the new product to market in 2024.
Culture & Values
Sapien’s values focus on helping real people with real-life problems and changing their lives through the use of technology. Sapien’s customers know and trust them to help them on their sustainability journey.
The Product & Technology Director believes in a “leader leader” culture where everyone’s opinions and ideas are important and the team collaborates to come up with the right solutions. You’ll get full autonomy to do things the way that you feel is right for the business and customers.
Sapien is working toward creating a remote-first working environment which is on track to be implemented in the next 6-12 months.
Working in a small team means you can create a big impact, work autonomously and be really focused on the outcomes. You’ll also get to work closely with Sapien’s customers who live in remote environments and learn all about their world.