THE ROLEAs a Senior Software Engineer, you'll lead the development of delightful, high-impact experiences for both consumers and Shefs across the country. You'll help optimize the shopping experience for customers, and you'll build micro-entrepreneurship tools that enable Shefs to run and grow their own businesses.
If we succeed, we'll fundamentally change how people purchase food - expanding access to healthy, affordable, authentic meals while empowering thousands of entrepreneurs.
This role reports directly to the company's engineering leader. This is a
hybrid position located in the
San Francisco Bay Area or New York (local candidates only).
RESPONSIBILITIES- Own the design, implementation, and rollout of key product features end-to-end - from discovery through launch and iteration
- Build new experiences that delight consumers and help Shefs grow their businesses
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Ops to define requirements, validate assumptions, and ship measurable improvements
- Bring a strong bias for execution while making good technical tradeoffs between time, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Use analytics and customer insights to identify opportunities, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence: code quality, testing, observability, performance, and reliability
- Mentor other engineers through thoughtful code reviews, pairing, and sharing best practices; help improve team processes and technical decision-making
- Contribute to architecture and technical strategy in a pragmatic, startup-appropriate way
QUALIFICATIONSSignificant professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications (typically
5+ years, but we care most about scope and impact)
- Strong experience with modern web development - React, TypeScript, and Node (or equivalent expertise with the ability to ramp quickly)
- Proven ability to lead projects with ambiguous requirements and drive them to a high-quality outcome
- Product-minded: you think in terms of customer needs, business outcomes, and measurable impact - not just tickets
- Comfortable operating in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve; you make smart tradeoffs and keep momentum
- High ownership and accountability: you proactively find problems, propose solutions, and follow through
NICE TO HAVE- Experience at high-growth startups (pre-seed through Series C)
- Experience with experimentation, analytics, or growth/product iteration loops
- Experience building tools for entrepreneurs, marketplaces, logistics, or consumer checkout/search experiences
- Familiarity with scaling systems, performance tuning, or improving reliability/observability
CompensationThe base pay range for this role is $150,000 - $170,000 per year.
