Technologist

The Precision Sustainable Agriculture program is a network of researchers across the country collaborating to develop integrated knowledge-intensive sustainable agriculture practices into a precision framework to maximize farm productivity, and sustainability through the use of an information ecology that connects farms, data, tools, and people for optimal, real-time decision making with newly developed technology solutions.

The PSA program is housed within the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences which encompasses diverse disciplines in research extension and teaching.

The department's mission is to develop future leaders in crop, soil, and environmental sciences, improve crop plants and products, devise effective and sustainable crop production systems, devise effective and sustainable soil management techniques in both agriculture and urban settings; and disseminate crop, soil, and environmental science knowledge for the benefit of users and producers of food, feed turf, biofuels and fiber in North Carolina, the nation and the world.

Essential Job Duties

This Integrations and Solutions -Full stack developer working on National Conservation Management decision tools for agriculture-focused user interfaces, creating testing environments/pipelines, and improving our continuous integration/continuous deployment operations. Creating and designing new tools that integrate cover crop decision tool framework with broader vegetation management practices. Adding the ability to retain user input data so that growers can view their previous interactions with the various tools. Create functionality for tools to enable print-friendly outputs that can be used in the field by agriculture professionals. The input from this position will impact the deliverables on multiple sponsored research projects and products released for use in the agriculture arena.

This position will be involved in:

• Developing/designing React applications from the ground up.

• Design and implement the databases needed to store application-specific data and images.

• Design and implement REST APIs to interact with the new databases.

• Present the pros and cons of different solutions to the whole development team.

• Implement CI/CD and testing for all the decision tools.

• Construct and/or convert web applications to be both desktop and mobile-compliant.

• Update existing React applications to follow best practices.

• Create unit tests for existing applications.

• Other projects as assigned.

The incumbent will be stationed in Beltsville, Maryland, or Raleigh, North Carolina. The incumbent must relocate to one of these locations based on business needs.

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Other Responsibilities

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience

• BS with 2+ years experience, MS with 1+ (Degree in computer /electrical engineering or related field), or equivalent work experience.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to work independently within a team environment.

• Experience with React applications.

• Experience designing applications from the ground up.

Other Required Qualifications

• Strong proficiency with React, PostgreSQL, Node.js/Express, and Git are required.

• Knowledge of documenting and tracking research steps.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 + years of directly related experience with Bash/shell scripts, Linus, Azure services, MongoDB, Python/Django or Python/Flask, serverless functions is preferred.

Required License(s) or Certification(s)

n/a

Valid NC Driver's License required No Commercial Driver's License required No