Careers
Build cutting-edge technology for the world’s most fundamental industry.
PickTrace is striving to transform agriculture. Our advanced platform for real-time data collection and analytics streamlines farming operations and provides actionable insights, so farmers have the tools they need to run successful businesses.
Our passion for developing meaningful technology and spreading best practices is core to our company culture. Join us in our mission.
Working at PickTrace
OWNERSHIP
On such a small team, every individual at PickTrace has personal ownership, specialization, and critical importance. Whether it’s software architecture or our client implementation process, we’re still designing and building much of our product and operations from the ground up. Every PickTracer is a decision-maker and owner.
Professional Growth
We nurture a culture of learning and career development. PickTrace team members enjoy autonomy and opportunity to take on big challenges, plus support and coaching to meet those goals. PickTrace’s growth trajectory and market position also enable each individual’s career to progress in many directions and with vast potential.
Camaraderie
Collaboration and fun are in our DNA. Our office environment is casual, dynamic, honest, and cross-functional. We eat lunch every day at the same table, teaching one another about multi-cultural foods from Indian to Brazilian to vegan. Ping pong is our constant background noise, and our Slack is full of food, puppy, baby, and #twinning photos.
Excellence
We’re proud of our high standards and commitment to OKRs. We’re building robust, complex, modern software and operations, with best-of-breed technologies, world-class talent, deep customer empathy, and unparalleled market expertise. Every PickTracer is an A player who loves solving interesting problems. We reward great performance.
Fast Pace
Our mission to transform agriculture means that we move fast. Limited bureaucracy, high energy, competitive spirit, horizontal structure, and autonomy are our recipe for doing quality work at a fast pace. In 2019, we grew our headcount from 10 to 30 people, and everyone is hitting the ground at full speed.
Impact
PickTrace is making a positive difference in a pen-and-paper industry hungry for modern software. Today, PickTracers help tens of thousands of hardworking farm workers who provide healthy food for millions of people (and we’re still on the cusp of scaling up!). Our user-obsession means everything we build has meaningful, real-world impact.
Working at PickTrace
Ownership
On such a small team, every individual at PickTrace has personal ownership, specialization, and critical importance. Whether it’s software architecture or our client implementation process, we’re still designing and building much of our product and operations from the ground up. Every PickTracer is a decision-maker and owner.
Camaraderie
Collaboration and fun are in our DNA. Our office environment is casual, dynamic, honest, and cross-functional. We eat lunch every day at the same table, teaching one another about multi-cultural foods from Indian to Brazilian to vegan. Ping pong is our constant background noise, and our Slack is full of food, puppy, baby, and #twinning photos.
Professional Growth
We nurture a culture of learning and career development. PickTrace team members enjoy autonomy and opportunity to take on big challenges, plus support and coaching to meet those goals. PickTrace’s growth trajectory and market position also enable each individual’s career to progress in many directions and with vast potential.
Excellence
We’re proud of our high standards and commitment to OKRs. We’re building robust, complex, modern software and operations, with best-of-breed technologies, world-class talent, deep customer empathy, and unparalleled market expertise. Every PickTracer is an A player who loves solving interesting problems. We reward great performance.
Fast Pace
Our mission to transform agriculture means that we move fast. Limited bureaucracy, high energy, competitive spirit, horizontal structure, and autonomy are our recipe for doing quality work at a fast pace. In 2019, we grew our headcount from 10 to 30 people, and everyone is hitting the ground at full speed.
Impact
PickTrace is making a positive difference in a pen-and-paper industry hungry for modern software. Today, PickTracers help tens of thousands of hardworking farm workers who provide healthy food for millions of people (and we’re still on the cusp of scaling up!). Our user-obsession means everything we build has meaningful, real-world impact.
Our team members’ experiences
A typical day:
I teach people who work on farms how to use cool high-tech software that keeps track of the fruit they pick and the hard work they are doing. Some days I teach field workers how to use our mobile devices in Spanish! Other days, I’m on video call with farm managers and executives, helping them understand the valuable operational data we provide.
Michelle Ramirez 
IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER
Career growth:
At PickTrace, we drive the concepts, the process, everything. We’re deciding on infrastructure while also building the business-focused logic. As an engineer, dealing with both expands my knowledge horizontally and also my technical skill set. The last time I implemented a TCP server was in college; now I get to do it from the ground up. Exciting!
Renxia Wang
SENIOR BACK-END ENGINEER
Something fun:
At PickTrace, we all have fruit/veg alter-egos (I’m a sweet potato!). Every day, we eat lunch together at a community table where there’s always a bowl of fresh fruit featuring produce from our clients! If you think we’re a little ag-obsessed, you’re not wrong…
Kelsey Spencer
OPERATIONS MANAGER
Founder’s vision:
Our vision is to become the technology platform empowering produce farms all over the world. Our simple, powerful software will help growers build efficient, compliant, successful operations that provide healthy fruit & vegetables and fair, rewarding jobs for billions of consumers and agricultural workers globally.
Austin Steed
CEO
Fast environment:
My favorite thing is the people and team. More specifically as an engineer, I love the fast-paced environment to learn and grow.
Erika Menezes
SENIOR BACK-END ENGINEER
Changing the way:
I love interacting with our customers every day and hearing their stories about how PickTrace has fundamentally changed the way they operate for the better. They are the ones helping us pave the way to revolutionize the Ag industry!
Kalyn Fetta
CUSTOMER SUCCESS TEAM LEAD
Perks
Unlimited Paid Time Off.
Competitive salary.
Health, dental, and vision Benefits.
Annual company Family Events.
Fully Remote.
Fun and collaborative office environment.
Regional Meetups.
Social Virtual Hangouts.
Equity.
401K.
Open Positions
Senior Software Engineer
San Diego, CAResearch & Development – Engineering /Full-time /Remote
WHAT IF…
You could leverage your passion for technology to create solutions that will directly impact our food supply chain? The agriculture industry is facing numerous challenges including coordinating workforces in a rapidly shifting environment and increasing costs, yet it is one of the least digitized industries in the world. At PickTrace, we’re working to solve these problems and deliver products our customers love. That is why we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who not only builds great software, but knows how to harness AI as a force multiplier to help build the SaaS farm management operating system of the future.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Learn agriculture and become well-versed in the workflow and business needs of PickTrace customers in order to craft an elegant, high-performance user experience
- Help advocate for best practices for development processes and deployment, including the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows
- Use AI tools as a force multiplier — applying AI assistants to accelerate coding, research, debugging, and documentation across the stack
- Help build and maintain a collaborative culture that fosters collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement
- Work full stack across the back end and front end
- Write efficient, scalable, and easily testable APIs
- Write reusable frontend components
- Mentor other engineers
- Contribute to maintainable code by performing code reviews and writing tests
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- You have 4+ years of experience building web based software
- High level languages similar to Go, Kotlin, C#, Python, Java
- Front end languages similar to HTML, CSS, Typescript, and React
- Experience with containerized apps (Docker) is a plus
- Cloud – experienced in setting up, architecting, and deploying services
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows
- Actively uses AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as a core part of daily development
- Comfortable running agentic coding workflows where AI tools autonomously handle multi-step tasks
- Able to critically evaluate, test, and take full ownership of AI-generated code — understanding its limitations and knowing when not to trust it
- You are an innovative, big picture thinker and pragmatic with technical details
- You have a knack for simplifying, breaking down, and honing in on the core elements of problems to drive towards iterative solutions
- You have strong communication skills and can work effectively with a cross-functional team (including with non-technical colleagues)
If this sounds like you, we would absolutely love to meet you!
Senior Software Engineer (MX)
Guadalajara, MXResearch & Development – Engineering /Full-time /Remote
WHAT IF…
You could leverage your passion for technology to create solutions that will directly impact our food supply chain? The agriculture industry is facing numerous challenges including coordinating workforces in a rapidly shifting environment and increasing costs, yet it is one of the least digitized industries in the world. At PickTrace, we’re working to solve these problems and deliver products our customers love. That is why we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who not only builds great software, but knows how to harness AI as a force multiplier to help build the SaaS farm management operating system of the future.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Learn agriculture and become well-versed in the workflow and business needs of PickTrace customers in order to craft an elegant, high-performance user experience
- Help advocate for best practices for development processes and deployment, including the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows
- Use AI tools as a force multiplier — applying AI assistants to accelerate coding, research, debugging, and documentation across the stack
- Help build and maintain a collaborative culture that fosters collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement
- Work full stack across the back end and front end
- Write efficient, scalable, and easily testable APIs
- Write reusable frontend components
- Mentor other engineers
- Contribute to maintainable code by performing code reviews and writing tests
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Fluent in English (verbal and written)
- You have 4+ years of experience building web based software
- High level languages similar to Go, Kotlin, C#, Python, Java
- Front end languages similar to HTML, CSS, Typescript, and React
- Experience with containerized apps (Docker) is a plus
- Cloud – experienced in setting up, architecting, and deploying services
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows
- Actively uses AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as a core part of daily development
- Comfortable running agentic coding workflows where AI tools autonomously handle multi-step tasks
- Able to critically evaluate, test, and take full ownership of AI-generated code — understanding its limitations and knowing when not to trust it
- You are an innovative, big picture thinker and pragmatic with technical details
- You have a knack for simplifying, breaking down, and honing in on the core elements of problems to drive towards iterative solutions
- You have strong communication skills and can work effectively with a cross-functional team (including with non-technical colleagues)
If this sounds like you, we would absolutely love to meet you!
How We Hire
Our interview process is an in-depth opportunity to get to know each other. The PickTrace team is so small, every single person is a significant addition to the organization and the culture, and we care a lot about a great mutual fit – which means that we hope you become well acquainted with us, too!
Throughout our application and interview process, we strive to be in clear and regular communication with applicants. Our goal is that you never wait more than 1 week to receive an update or a request to proceed from the PickTrace team. If you have any questions, our co-founders, executive team, and team members are all happy to connect with you.
Intro Call and Video Interview
Before we even begin speaking with people, we build a clear rubric for the job expectations and candidate requirements. Candidates whose experiences seem like a great fit start with an introductory phone interview (30 minutes) and then a longer video interview that gets more technical or in-depth (1 hour).
Portfolio
After that, we may go briefly off-script and ask for work examples or case studies that you may have mentioned in the first couple of calls. You should also feel free to ask us for informational chats with team members, since you deserve to meet your future colleagues and team leaders as well!
Virtual “On-site” Visit
The next and biggest step for you in our interview process is the virtual on-site, which may range from 4 to 7 hours depending on the role. This can be a full-day interview or we can break it out into multiple days. The goal is to provide you the opportunity to hop on a whiteboard, brainstorm together and share your skills with the hiring manager and team mates. For example, engineers will do architecture and coding sessions at this stage. These sessions will mimic real-life team meetings to the extent possible, because so much of our work at such an early stage is hands-on collaborative brainstorming.
Reference Checks
Our final step is references. We weigh these extremely heavily, perhaps unconventionally so, because the best indicator of what kind of colleague someone will be is what kind of colleague they have been. We dive into in-depth conversations with managers, reports, and peers from your career. People and culture matter to us, and we hope that they matter to you, too.
