Posting Number
PG192329EP
Working Title
Full Stack Developer - Crop and Soil Sciences
Anticipated Hiring Range
Commensurate with Experience
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday (8am - 5pm)
Job Location
Raleigh, NC or Beltsville, MD
About the Department
The Precision Sustainable Agriculture (PSA) 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. 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
The Full Stack Developer works on National Conservation Management decision tools for user interfaces, creates testing environments/pipelines and improves our continuous integration/continuous deployment operations. Create 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.
a. Develop React applications from the ground up.
b. Design and implement the databases needed to store application specific data.
c. Design and implement REST APIs to interact with the new databases.
d. Present pros and cons of different solutions to our development team.
e. Implement CI/CD and testing for all the decision tools.
f. Construct or convert web-applications to be both desktop and mobile compliant.
g. Other duties as assigned.
Other Responsibilities
Other duties as assigned.