Platform API Architect

Welcome to Agerpoint

Agerpoint is reshaping how agriculture and nature field data is captured, analyzed and managed. Building upon a decade of innovation and a deep IP portfolio, Agerpoint today brings technology to customers across agriculture, restoration and conservation using smartphones and tablets to affordably acquire ground truth data and uses automated analytics to extract plant measurements and insights. Combined with other 3rd party data, this digital twin platform for crops and forests equips public and private sector organizations with unprecedented transparency across the food supply chain and protected natural environments.

The Agerpoint Capture mobile application allows users to capture 3D models of crops and trees via a smartphone or tablet, upload models to the cloud to assess health, yield, species, biomass, and more. Customers can then derive insights from these models with Agerpoint Cloud, a spatial data platform that leverages machine learning for detailed plant-level insights.

Agerpoint was selected as a 2022 Technology Pioneer company by the World Economic Forum, recognized as one of the world’s most promising start-ups that are at the forefront of technological and business model innovation. Agerpoint’s Know Your Carbon™ offering was selected as winner of the Carbon Market Challenge as announced at the United Nations COP26 Climate Summit.

The company is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina at the Alexandria Center for AgTech - the country's first and only integrated multi-tenant, collaborative and amenity-rich R&D and greenhouse site.

Our APIs are the connective glue between our mobile apps, cloud software, and backend processing infrastructure and critical to our future success. As the Platform API Architect, you will play a dual role as both technical leader and hands-on contributor. You will be responsible for making the strategic decisions regarding our API technologies and establishing patterns, standards, and best practices for our development teams. Your experience and expertise will be crucial in ensuring that our APIs are robust, scalable, and aligned with our business goals. You’ll collaborate closely with development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to build a cohesive set of APIs to scale the Agerpoint platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the long-term vision for our API architecture, considering scalability, security, and future enhancements
• Create and maintain API design principles, standards, and best practices to ensure APIs are modular, consistent, and reusable
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify API requirements and use cases
• Establish governance process for API changes, versioning, and deprecation
• Ensure APIs are well-documented, modular, consistent, and reusable
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools
• Lead the design and review of critical API changes
• Mentor and guide development teams to ensure adherence to architectural guidelines and consistency across APIs
• Optimize API performance, consider latency, caching, and data retrieval
• Integrate APIs with monitoring, logging, and analytics tools to track usage, performance, and reliability
• Support third-party integrations and partner APIs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in API design, architecture, and development
• Strong understanding of RESTful and GraphQL design principles
• Proficiency in one more API technologies like .NET or Node.js (our current APIs are .NET)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud, AWS)
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Perks

• Paid company holidays and unlimited PTO
• Remote friendly and flexible work environment
• Company paid healthcare benefits
• Equity options for full-time employees
• Access to fully equipped, EXOS-operated fitness center with on-site wellness coaches and on-site eatery (for employees in Research Triangle Park, NC)

Agerpoint is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Agerpoint is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

Note to Recruiters: 

Agerpoint does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Agerpoint will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Agerpoint explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Agerpoint.