Senior Lead Engineer

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:
• AI-driven food quality control (computer vision + human-in-the-loop)
• Real-time anomaly detection and alerts
• Direct-to-consumer sales tooling
• 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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