Do you enjoy building beautiful and flexible frontend clients with a customer-focused design? Would you enjoy digging into the details of a complex system, evaluate and discuss the solution with heavily purpose-driven people and without any prestige focus entirely on improving everyday-life of farmers? Do you have previous experience with React? Do you love to code?

Qualifications

Need-to-have

• Practical experience from working with frontend JavaScript applications.

• Humble and with great empathetic skills.

• Taking feedback well and having the desire to grow both yourself and your team.

• Self-sufficiency and the never-ending strive to help people through programming.

Nice-to-have

• Practical experience from working with React, Redux, Webpack and GraphQL.

• Advanced knowledge in JavaScript, especially concerning advanced features, automated UI testing and browser compatibility.

• B.Sc./M.Sc. degree in Computer Science/similar, or equivalent practical experience.

• Practical experience from working with backend JavaScript (NodeJS).

About Skira

Our purpose is simple:

We go to work every day aiming for an optimal and sustainable trade of food.

Skira started as a project with the goal to bring more transparency to the food chain. It was obvious that agricultural actors lacked both tools and information crucial to making the right business decisions. Along the journey building a basic information platform, Skira realized the enormous potential using modern information technology within the food industry.

As of 2019, we’ve successfully deployed Sweden’s first independent digital grain trading platform, and only four months after beta launch we’ve already made grain transactions worth millions of SEK, using a method that no one said would be possible. By giving all our customers payment security and grain quality assurance, we’ve also managed to maintain 100% customer satisfaction. During 2019 we will continue to drive innovation in the green industry by growing our trading platform, as well as starting one of the biggest AI/ML-projects the Swedish agricultural business has ever seen.

And we’ve only just begun.

About engineering at Skira

Skira aims to develop and maintain pioneering systems that make it possible to easily put the farmer in focus; close collaboration with customers and an environment where “fail fast”-thinking is promoted.

Our platform is built with K8s and Docker. We use modern cloud providers to bring full-scale CI/CD and to add intelligent high-level APIs (e.g. for data mining and ML). Our languages are mainly JavaScript (Node.js runtime for servers and React library for clients) and Python (data mining/ML), but we truly believe that the language of choice depends on the developer and the situation. We strive to have a culture where problems are attacked by starting with the question “how do we bring value, given the current situation?”.

Our hypothesis is that a cloud-based microservices architecture will make our systems scalable and powerful in a way that makes it possible to pick whatever technology and/or language that serves the purpose of bringing better food to more people.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software mainly in frontend, given necessary resources and with a high level of creative freedom.

• Maintain focus on customers when building beautiful and flexible frontend clients.

• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.

• Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with and influence others to improve the overall design.

FAQ

• What core values do you have at Skira?

We strive to have a culture where feedback is given och received with mutual understanding. It's impossible to fully understand what a person is thinking, and we want people who realizes that a different opinion and a different view is based upon different experiences and knowledge. It's therefore important that if you join the team at Skira we expect a humble attitude and an empathetic state of mind.

• Where is Skira’s office located? Where will I be working?

Our main office is located in central Stadshagen, Stockholm. We highly promote working together, but we also know that you can’t stress creativity, which means that you’ll have a lot of freedom concerning working hours and place of work.

• Can I apply even if I’m not from Sweden?

Absolutely and unequivocally yes. We believe that a diversified team will make us stronger and more dynamic when facing our upcoming challenges. We don’t want anyone to doubt themselves due to differences in race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. What we do want, is that our international candidates know that taking a job at Skira means moving to Sweden and spending a majority of their time sitting with the rest of the team.

• Compensation?

You will get a highly competitive salary, employee stock options and standard old age pension insurance.

• Isn’t it hard working for a startup? Long hours and stuff like that?

We believe that a life-work balance is essential in order to perform at your job. We will, together with you, continuously evaluate your situation and bring our best effort in order to make Skira fit into your life.