Farmdrop

We’re a dynamic, friendly and people-focussed team that is expanding fast, working out of our head office in Old Street and new hub in Enfield.

Founded 2012
51-200 employees
  • eCommerce
  • Headquarters address
    Classic House, 180 Old Street, EC1V9BP
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    Farmdrop represents a new economic approach to food retailing whereby the benefits of cutting out the middlemen are shared between customers who enjoy fresher, healthier food at lower prices, and smaller scale producers who enjoy best-ever trading terms. Our mission is to Fix The Food Chain, something we plan to do by providing the best food retail experience. We are passionate about using technology to fix the food chain and getting a great deal for the farmer. We would love for you to join us on this exciting journey.

    We believe in collaborative, agile and lean ways of working. We continually optimise our system of work (as one size does not fit all). We use small teams, pair, make use of TDD/BDD.

    We are on a journey from a monolithic architecture to a microservices event-based future which has which yielded a rapid change in our practices within the team. We share knowledge openly within the team with a collaborative approach across the entire company.

    Tech stack

    Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React.js, Redux.js, ES6, Sass, HTML/CSS, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Memcached, Git, Node.js, GraphQL, Apollo, Kafka, TDD/BDD, CI/CD Our test stack: Rspec, Cucumber, SitePrism, Capybara, Appium, Cypress, Gatling

    Benefits

    Compensation and retirement

    Pension plan

    Values and quality of life

    Catered meals
    Farmdrop - Company Photo
    Farmdrop - Our new office based near Old Street
    Farmdrop - 180 Old Street office
    Farmdrop - Delicious lunch cooked by Alice everyday!
    Farmdrop - At Farmdrop we believe in sharing knowledge and have weekly "show and tell" meetings to share what we have been working on or interesting company updates.
    Farmdrop - 2018 Christmas Party