Staff Software Engineer - Product

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, or 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.
• Collaborating closely with our product and design teams to build rich and engaging user experiences.
• 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

• 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, GraphQL, and Postgresql preferred.
• Experience with ETL data flows, syncing large amounts of data between different data stores, optimizing relational queries, high scale architectures, and helping further instrument and monitor systems are a plus

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

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.

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