Careers — Rivercreek

A rancher in Warren County, Ohio raises a 1,200 lb Black Angus steer. By the time it reaches a plate in Cincinnati, five intermediaries have taken 58¢ of every dollar. None of them added quality. None of them showed their math. The rancher has no idea what happened to his margin. The buyer has no idea where their food came from.

This isn't a market inefficiency. It's the business model. The entire system is optimized for opacity — because opacity is how intermediaries extract value without being accountable for it. Every other company in ag-tech is building tools that operate within this system. We're building the infrastructure that replaces it.

$2,400

AUCTION PAYS

→

$3,600

RIVERCREEK PAYS

+50% to the producer

Same animal. Same buyer. That's the gap you'd be closing. If that matters to you, keep reading.

THE HONEST CASE

Why would you leave a good job to work here?

You wouldn't, unless you believed this is the only place where you could do this specific work. Here's why it might be.

The problem is real and nobody else is solving it

$1.2 trillion flows through American agriculture every year. The infrastructure underneath it hasn't been rebuilt since the 1920s. There are apps that help farmers manage fields. There are marketplaces that sell meat boxes. Nobody is building the clearing layer — the settlement rail, the price discovery engine, the traceability backbone. You can't do this work at Google. You can't do it at Cargill. This is the only place.

The timing is structural, not speculative

The U.S. cattle herd is at multi-decade lows. Supply chain transparency is becoming regulatory. DTC food is growing 30% year-over-year. The producers who remain have more leverage than any generation before them — but no infrastructure to exercise it. This isn't a bet that the market will shift. The market has already shifted. We're building the infrastructure it needs.

Your work ships to real people immediately

The Founding 50 producers go live Spring 2026. These aren't hypothetical users in a pitch deck. They're ranchers in Warren County, Ohio who will clear real transactions through infrastructure you built. The feedback loop is a phone call, not an A/B test. When the settlement hits their account same-day for the first time, you'll know.

In ten years, you'll either have built this or wished you had

Clearing infrastructure for agriculture will exist in a decade. The question is whether you're the person who built it or the person who reads about it. We're family-capitalized with a 50-year time horizon. No VC clock. No exit pressure. No pivot to whatever's trending. Just the work, compounding, for a very long time.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Opacity is a business model. Transparency is a better one.

Every intermediary in the current system profits from the producer not knowing the final price. We publish every number.

Infrastructure compounds. Features don't.

We're not building a better auction app. We're building the settlement rail that every future ag transaction will flow through.

The best agricultural technology is built close to the ground.

Some of us grew up on farms. Some of us didn't. What matters is that you build like the person using it is standing behind you — because on this team, they probably are.

Same-day settlement isn't a feature. It's a statement about who matters.

When a rancher sells cattle at auction, they wait 7-14 days to get paid. On Rivercreek, they're paid when the truck arrives. T+0.

You can't fix a broken system by participating in it. You have to build the replacement.

Every other ag-tech company operates within the existing supply chain. We're building the new one.

WHY CINCINNATI

San Francisco builds software for people it's never met. We build infrastructure for people we can drive to.

The producers are 30 minutes north. The buyers are 30 minutes south. The processors and elevators are in between. Your code ships in the morning, clears a real transaction by lunch, and you can visit the ranch it serves by afternoon. That feedback loop doesn't exist at a company where the customer is an abstraction in a dashboard.

Cincinnati isn't a tech hub. It's the clearing point where agriculture meets commerce. We're not here despite that. We're here because of it.

OPEN ROLES

Three roles. All foundational.

Platform Engineer

REMOTE • OHIO PREFERRED • FULL-TIME

HIRING NOW

The initial platform is being built. You're coming in to own what it becomes. You'll inherit a working foundation — transaction engine, escrow and atomic settlement mechanics, real-time bid-ask pricing, producer dashboards, traceability records — and drive the continued product roadmap from there. New verticals, new instruments, new intelligence layers. Every module on the platform going forward is yours to design, ship, and evolve. Watch a rancher in Warren County use it to get paid more than the auction ever offered.

React / Node PostgreSQL Financial Systems Real-time Data

Producer Relations Lead

MASON, OH • FULL-TIME

HIRING NOW

You'll drive to farms, sit at kitchen tables, and explain to a fourth-generation cattleman why this is different from every other ag-tech pitch he's heard. You'll onboard the Founding 50 producers — one handshake at a time — across Warren, Clinton, Highland, and Butler counties. By the end of Year 1, every producer in southwestern Ohio should know your name. The relationships you build become the foundation of a national network.

This role requires someone who knows agriculture — not from a textbook, but from a life lived in it.

Agriculture Relationship Building Ohio / Midwest

Market Intelligence Analyst

REMOTE • FULL-TIME OR CONTRACT

HIRING NOW

You'll build the intelligence layer that tells a producer when to sell, what to price, and which buyer is bidding. USDA market data integration. County-level basis analysis. Feeder cattle price forecasting. Packer margin modeling. You'll turn raw agricultural data into actionable decisions — the kind of insight that used to live exclusively inside the trading desks at Cargill and Tyson, delivered directly to the people who actually raise the food. Institutional-grade agricultural intelligence, built for the people the institutions have ignored.

Commodity Markets Ag Economics Python / SQL Data Analysis

FROM THE FOUNDER

“The agricultural supply chain is a $1.2 trillion industry running on infrastructure from the 1920s. Somewhere between the ranch and the plate, five intermediaries take 55 cents of every dollar — and not one of them can tell you why they deserve it. That's not inefficiency. That's architecture. And I'm replacing it.

I grew up around a cattle operation in Ohio. I covered the largest industrial and agricultural companies in the world at J.P. Morgan. I've seen this system from the inside — from the producer's side and the institutional side — and I can tell you with certainty: nobody inside it is going to fix it. The opacity is the business model. You don't reform a business model. You build the infrastructure that makes it obsolete.

That's what Rivercreek is. One transparent layer where every price is visible, every fee is published, and every producer gets paid what their product is actually worth — the same day it delivers. Not a better version of the old system. A new one.

We're starting in Ohio. We'll be in every agricultural state within a decade. The team that builds this will have done something that hasn't been done in a century — rebuild how American agriculture moves money. If that's the kind of work you want to do, there's one place to do it.”

Austin Oeder

Founder & CEO

HOW TO APPLY

No resume required. No recruiter screen.

Send an email with two things:

1. What you've built.

2. Why this problem — not this company — matters to you.

I read every email. If there's a fit, we'll talk within the week. — Austin

careers@rivercreek.com

SUBJECT: I want to build with Rivercreek

Nobody else is building this.

Why would you leave a good job to work here?

Three roles. All foundational.

Platform Engineer

Producer Relations Lead

Market Intelligence Analyst

No resume required. No recruiter screen.