Do you want to help build real technology for a meaningful purpose? Do you want to fight to make the world’s fresh produce healthier, tastier, and more sustainable? 

Tortuga is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to build a system that supports deployment, robot status, configuration, software unit testing, cloud services, and our other “glue” functions holding together our novel robotic harvesting platform. This includes managing software rollout and integration with our worldwide harvesting robot fleet, integrating best practices back with the software team, with space to grow into a variety of other critical roles.  An added bonus is familiarity with AWS services to help manage the backend side of this critical function of our software. 

As an early employee at Tortuga, you’ll be fundamental to our success, growth, and culture. You’ll bring knowledge of the tools that enable cloud technologies and share a passion for our mission while also thriving in a fast-paced, flexible, and energized startup environment. You’re excited to advance your role and skills as Tortuga continues to grow.

What you’ll do

• Create best practices for robot, build infrastructure, fleet tracking and software security

• Assist with cloud-based configuration of robot fleets and further the ability to deploy firmware, software, and other updates automatically with the operations team

• Design code testing and deployment paradigms including flexible code rollout

• Work directly with the software team to ensure upstream code quality

• Up to 10% travel, with potential for international travel

What we’re looking for

• Required: 3-5 years experience in a similar role, ideally while managing cloud resources, with IOT or robots preferred 

• Required: B.S. Computer Science or similar degree

• Required: Demonstrably strong Python, Java, JavaScript, or other programming language skills 

• Strongly Preferred: Strong experience with major cloud providers, preferably AWS (including AWS IOT, EC2, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Lambda, Cloudwatch)

• Familiarity and experience with architectural design

• Experience with scalability, security and performance engineering for web services

• Startup experience a major plus

Please note you must be authorized to work in the United States for this position.

The base salary range below represents the low and high end of our salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel. The range listed is just one component of Tortuga’s total compensation package for employees.  

Denver area base salary range: $100,000 - $140,000 per year. 

This position is based in Denver, with the ability to work from home 2 - 3 days a week, based on business needs (100% remote is not available). Relocation assistance is available for out-of-state candidates.

All salaried, full-time employees receive:

• Meaningful company equity

• Unlimited paid time off

• 401(k) plan with 3% employer contribution

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance 

• $1,000 annual wellness stipend 

• Flexible working hours

A word about COVID-19

We are highly sensitive to the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic brings to people, as team members and as individuals at home. We want you to be safe, to keep our team safe, and to do our part to help reduce the impact of the pandemic. We are an Essential Business and most of our team members are  back in the office now due to the hands-on work needed with our robots. Our office abides by all COVID-19 guidelines established by the State of Colorado.

About Tortuga

Tortuga AgTech’s mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving planet, through smarter farming. We’re pursuing our mission by building robotic harvesting and precision analytics systems for the world’s leading fresh produce growers (delicious things like strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and herbs). We’re building not just because it’s fun, but because we believe thoughtful, well-built advanced technology can help farmers grow healthier, fresher, more environmentally sustainable produce for everyone. We’re backed by some of the most respected early-stage investors in Silicon Valley, as well as ag industry veterans. 

Tortuga means “turtle” in Spanish. Around the world, turtles are symbols of wisdom, patience, and connectedness to the Earth. We’re proud to be based in Denver, CO - a growing and leading robotics hub in North America, and a great place to live! 

Tortuga is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.