Full-Stack Engineer

almost 2 years ago
Full time role
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Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh ...

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Job Description

Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 6.9 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!

About the role
  • Lead full-stack API development and establish standard methodologies around quality and performance.
  • Design and build our GraphQL APIs which serve our mobile apps, helping us fully transition to a back-end driven app architecture.
  • Scale our APIs to serve thousands of grocery stores as we grow our customer base over the next year.
  • Collaborate closely with our product and design teams to build rich and engaging user experiences.
  • Build out our analytics to understand our system behavior and make informed decisions.
  • Help lay the foundation of our scalable service-based infrastructure to support continuous delivery and resilient systems.

Skills and experience
The following represent 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
  • 3+ years experience with full-stack and API development
  • 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 required, TypeScript and GraphQL preferred

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 $30 million in funding from investors including Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and James McCann (former CEO Tesco, Ahold, Carrefour). In 2021, we received an Honorable Mention for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas in Food.

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.

A qualified candidate must reside in or be willing to relocate to one of these states to be considered: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MS, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI

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