Founding Design Engineer - Permanent

Salary: EUR 80k

Context

World Class Design is partnering with a stealth-mode venture-backed agritech startup redefining cocoa and coffee supply chains for the benefit of farmers, manufacturers, and the planet. For decades, agricultural commodity supply chains have struggled with fragmentation, limited transparency, and poor outcomes for smallholder farmers. This company believes the future of agricultural sourcing is direct, transparent, and regenerative.

They build the digital infrastructure that makes this possible: mobile and web products that help farmer cooperatives manage their operations, collect and verify data, demonstrate compliance, and connect directly with global buyers. Their technology is already used by cooperatives and companies across Africa and Latin America, supporting more than 150,000 farmers. Backed by leading food and agriculture investors, they are building a small, ambitious team to become the technology and operational infrastructure behind the next generation of agricultural supply chains.

Missions

• Own the product roadmap for Peru: understand customer and user problems, identify opportunities, set priorities, and decide what should be built
• Design across web and Android: turn complex operational, data, and compliance workflows into intuitive experiences across their web platform and native Android application
• Build and ship across platforms: prototype and implement production-quality features yourself across web and Android, using AI-native development tools to move quickly from idea to working product
• Work directly with customers and users: spend time with cooperatives and field teams, gather feedback, support accounts, and turn what you learn into better products
• Drive adoption and growth: understand why users adopt or don’t adopt features, experiment with ways to increase engagement, and help make the product successful in Peru
• Own the full product loop: from research and prioritization through design, implementation, rollout, support, measurement, and iteration
• Collaborate with engineering: work with engineers on backend, infrastructure, and technically complex problems while retaining ownership of the overall product experience
• Build for scale: create reusable components and patterns that allow what works in Peru to expand efficiently into other Latin American markets
• Work AI-natively: use tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to explore, prototype, build, test, and ship faster
• Spend time in the field: travel regularly to Peru and potentially other markets to work directly with the people using what you build

Tools & Environment

• Native Android application and web products
• AI-native development tools including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
• Modern web technologies such as TypeScript and React
• Collaboration with backend and infrastructure engineering teams

Working Conditions

• Location: Paris, France with regular travel to Peru and other parts of Latin America
• Compensation: EUR 80k salary plus a generous stock package
• Opportunity to work in a small international team with direct access to founders
• High ownership role with autonomy over product decisions and execution
• Potential to expand ownership into new Latin American markets such as Ecuador
• Possibility to spend a couple of months each year working remotely from South America