Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Data Engineering, GraphQL, JavaScript, Machine learning techniques, PostgreSQL, Product Management, Python Programming, TypeScript

Job Description

About the Role

The Product Engineering team at Afresh is responsible for building out the suite of products that our customers use every day, whether it’s an individual produce manager looking to order their store’s groceries for the day, corporate supervisors looking to view individual store performance, and everything in between. Grocers rely on these solutions within Afresh’s Fresh Operating System to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their workflows, all contributing to our goal of reducing food waste. You will be playing a key role in building out these solutions for our customers. Our team and products are growing at a rapid pace, which means that there will be plenty of opportunities for ownership and making your impact felt. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Leading complex cross-functional projects and shipping high-quality apps and services.
• Designing and building our GraphQL APIs which serve our mobile and web apps.
• Scaling our APIs, architecture, and infrastructure to serve thousands of grocery stores as we grow our customer base over the next year.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Mobile, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Support to create the highest quality customer experience
• Building out our analytics and monitoring/observability to understand our system behavior and make informed decisions.
• Helping lay the foundation of our scalable service-based infrastructure to support developer productivity and resiliency.
• Work with other engineering teams to drive improvements in process, practice, and positive engineering culture so we all grow and mature together.

Skills and Experience

The following represents attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years experience with full-stack and API development
• Experience acting as a tech lead on complex cross-functional projects
• Proven track record of shipping high-quality apps and services
• Strong understanding of API development and good API design
• Collaborative attitude while also being highly self-directed
• System-level problem solving and excitement to tackle hard problems
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL preferred.

Afresh is committed to pay equity and providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits package. Afresh conducts a pay equity audit twice each year to ensure that jobs of similar scope and impact are paid similar amounts. The final compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as the role’s scope, complexity, internal equity, the candidate’s experience/expertise, and success through the interview process.

Salary Band:

LI-REMOTE

$162,000 - $180,000

About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.

Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.

Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.

Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.