Engineering Manager - Full-Stack

about 3 years ago
Full time role
San Francisco, CA, US... more
San Francisco, CA, US... more

Job Description

Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food’s complexities.

We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year.

We are a passionate team united by our mission to make an impact. As an Afresh employee, you’ll own meaningful work that will challenge you and change the future of how fresh, nutritious food makes its way through the supply chain.

We hope you’ll join us!

What you will do?

  • Lead our full-stack engineering team. This team building the API's and services to power our front-end experiences across mobile and web, as well as front-end web development itself.
  • Participate in key technical and design decisions as we push the capabilities and boundaries of our system
  • Mentor your engineers technically and professionally
  • Scale up our impact by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring high-caliber software engineers
  • Contribute to company strategy and technical vision to increase our impact within our current deployments and broaden our impact in future applications
  • Collaborate both with engineering and organizational stakeholders to execute on our short- and long-term roadmap
  • Be a culture carrier for our values of proactivity, candor, humility, and kindness

What skills or experience do you need?

  • 6+ years of combined professional software engineering experience as an engineering manager or tech lead.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Advanced degree a plus but not required.
  • Proven management ability, including strong communication and prioritization skills.
  • High emotional intelligence with strong coaching and leadership skills to get the very best out of the team.
  • Demonstrated ability to tackle open-ended and ambiguous systems-level problems.
  • Strong product sense and business understanding to be a key partner to Product.
  • The above represent attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.
About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is the first A.I.-powered fresh food optimization platform for grocery chains. We have partnered with several large grocers representing hundreds of stores and >$10B in revenue. Our cutting-edge AI research has been published in top journals (e.g., ICML). We’re backed by some of the top investors in grocery and tech including Innovation Endeavors (former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s firm), Baseline Ventures (first money in Stitch Fix, SoFi, Heroku, Instagram), Food Retail Ventures, Maersk Growth, and Impact Engine.

We are building a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values: proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. We aspire to continually grow as individuals and as an organization to live these values and realize our mission. We earnestly believe that Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by employing novel technology—and to have a ton of fun along the way.

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.

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