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.
This is a rare opportunity to work directly with the founders of a profitable, fast-scaling company, with full autonomy, significant equity, and a chance to apply AI in highly practical ways across our business.
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
* Collaborate daily with the founders on strategic and product decisions
* Hands-on code, this role will involve a large portion of coding and architecting
* Scale a small, high-performing team-recruit, mentor, and lead
* Be empowered to test bold ideas and launch quickly. Best ideas win-no politics.
* 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:
* Evolving our data ingestion engine (aggregating partner data)
* Building self-serve dashboards and tools for kitchen operators
* Launching new greenfield initiatives, such as:
o AI-driven food quality control (computer vision + human-in-the-loop)
o Real-time anomaly detection and alerts
o Direct-to-consumer sales tooling
o New data collection tools (e.g. camera feeds, mystery diners)
Skills required
* Tech stack, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Postgres
* Senior software engineer with strong skills in backend / data engineering
* Experience designing scalable architectures and integrations
* Product-oriented mindset-you enjoy shaping roadmaps, not just executing on them
* Comfortable using AI-native tools (e.g. Cursor, GPT-4, etc.) to 10x development
* Builder energy: fast, hands-on, curious, and excited by big real-world problems
* Passion for the food ecosystem-bonus if you love restaurants or hospitality
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