**Company Overview**
HitchPin is a technology company that is working to improve one of the
largest, most complex, and important industries in the world - food production
/ agriculture. Marketplaces like Airbnb, Amazon, and Uber have changed the
lodging, commerce, and transportation industries. HitchPin is doing the same
in the food supply - an industry that everyone depends on daily. There is a
soul behind HitchPin. At the personal level we build advanced tools that
empower and better connect food producers who provide the foundation of modern
society. They can buy and sell products and services faster and safer. At a
macro level we care about building a more robust food supply chain which leads
to greater national security and a more stable world.
**Team Overview**
The Product Development team creates software that enables users to buy and
sell safely, quickly, and efficiently. We empower the backbone of America -
farmers, ranchers, and food producers - farmers, ranchers, and food producers
- to perform their jobs and improve their lives. Our team operates with a
clear framework: the mission comes first, the team comes second, our teammates
come third, and we selflessly place ourselves last. We work with humility to
meet the goals our users and business demand.
**Position Overview**
As a Software Engineer on the Product Development team, you will tackle a wide
variety of challenges involving money movement, content creation, satellite
imagery, predictive analytics, communication tools, and more, making pragmatic
engineering trade-offs along the way. Your contributions will help secure,
enhance, and streamline America's food supply chain for future generations.
Above all, our team members are mission-driven, striving for excellence every
day.
**What You Will Do as a Software Engineer**
* Own software solutions - write code to develop new products, improve existing ones, and scale them to a larger user base.
* Embody a growth mindset - create viable solutions across UI, UX, networking, scalability, and more.
* Collaborate with teammates to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
* Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring both existing and new products.
* Triage issues, determine root causes of failures, and coordinate next steps.
* Partner with Product to translate needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
**Core Requirements**
* Strong engineering background from industry or academia, ideally in fields such as Computer Science or Software Engineering.
* At least 2+ years of experience building and deploying api-driven React applications
* Experience building software solutions involving significant data processing and analysis.
* Experience creating scalable and responsive web-based user interfaces.
* Ability to empathize with end-users, translate needs into features, and balance user experience with engineering constraints.
* Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and codebases with minimal documentation.
* A desire to work on critical software with vital real-world impact.
* Willingness to work long hours on challenging problems as part of a collaborative team. This is truly an early stage startup environment where you will be pushed to get better.
* A commitment to continuous improvement and learning.
**Desired Requirements**
* At least 2+ years of experience with various programming languages and frameworks, including React Native, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, Python, etc.
* Experience in early-stage startups.
* Experience with frontend applications involving data-intensive or map-based systems.
* Experience building and optimizing SEO tooling.
* Knowledge of agricultural systems and supply chain operations.
**What We Value in HitchPin Product Development**
* Uphold a standard of excellence - be accountable for the quality of your work, communication, attitude, and interactions with teammates.
* Act with extreme ownership - take responsibility for problems and solutions, and lead effectively up and down the chain of command.
* Be a pro - be punctual, maintain a growth attitude, communicate well, work diligently, and aim for incremental improvement each day.
* Embrace the full scope - Take responsibility for achieving the mission. Cultivate technical self-sufficiency across various environments, prioritize ruthlessly, and understand large systems and integrate new components effectively.
* Mission first - Operate according to the team hierarchy:
1. Mission - The Mission, read “the customer”, comes first
2. Team - Our Team comes second
3. Teammates - Our Teammates come third
4. Myself - We come last
**Benefits**
* Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
* Unlimited peak performance time off: Take time off as needed, provided adequate planning allows for team coverage and continued achievement of company goals.
* Remote environment: Fully remote team with occasional in-person events.
* Product Development team collaboration hours: 9:45 AM - 4:00 PM CST, with flexibility for the rest of your schedule.
* Equity in the company’s success.
