Job summary
Working with a growing food-tech company, who are profitable. They are looking for a Senior / Lead Engineer with Node and React experience.
Key skills required for this role
Node, React, Typescript, Postgres
Important
Senior_Lead Full stack Engineer
Job description
Company Overview
They are an early-stage, Series A-funded food-tech startup on a mission to transform how people access high-quality food. Reducing the efficiencies in the restaurant engineer, and giving everyone access to high quality food, on demand.
We're looking for a Senior / Lead Engineer who wants to do more than just code-you'll own product decisions, define the technical roadmap, and scale a world-class engineering team from the ground up. No PMs. No red tape. Just builders.
Role Overview
You'll be the first Senior / Lead Engineer in a lean team that includes a Junior Engineer and a world-class AI/Data Science specialist. You will Architect and build the next generation of our platform
1. Collaborate daily with the founders on strategic and product decisions
2. Hands-on code, this role will involve a large portion of coding and architecting
3. Scale a small, high-performing team-recruit, mentor, and lead
4. Be empowered to test bold ideas and launch quickly. Best ideas win-no politics.
5. Drive real-world impact by automating complex workflows in kitchens using AI
What You'll Work On
You'll have ownership across a variety of projects, including:
6. Evolving our data ingestion engine (aggregating partner data)
7. Building self-serve dashboards and tools for kitchen operators
8. Launching new greenfield initiatives, such as:
9. AI-driven food quality control (computer vision + human-in-the-loop)
10. Real-time anomaly detection and alerts
11. Direct-to-consumer sales tooling
12. New data collection tools (e.g. camera feeds, mystery diners)
Skills required
13. Tech stack, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Postgres
14. Senior software engineer with strong skills in backend / data engineering
15. Experience designing scalable architectures and integrations
16. Product-oriented mindset-you enjoy shaping roadmaps, not just executing on them
17. Comfortable using AI-native tools (e.g. Cursor, GPT-4, etc.) to 10x development
18. Builder energy: fast, hands-on, curious, and excited by big real-world problems
19. Passion for the food ecosystem-bonus if you love restaurants or hospitality
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