Software Engineer

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 34 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

As a Software Engineer at Afresh, you’ll work on an array of increasingly difficult projects to become an independent, high-impact software engineer. Depending upon the team, the work can focus anywhere on improving our modeling capabilities for ordering fresh produce, creating customer-centric and engaging user experiences, helping scale our mobile app development to support thousands of stores and dozens of partners, or work on tooling to process tens of billions of historical data points collected from tens of thousands of retail stores and beyond.

Your work will help drive the future of food by helping retailers order the right amount at the right time. At Afresh, we're invested in seeing you grow and develop, make an impact with your role, and help us on our mission to eliminate waste and increase access to fresh food. In this role you will:

• Work on cross-functional projects, directly collaborating with other engineers, as well as product managers and designers
• Give and receive meaningful feedback on code reviews and technical designs
• Build the skills to own a project from beginning to end, learning project management and technical leadership skills
• Ensure that the systems your team operates continue running well and can scale to meet the needs of our users

Skills and experience

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Bachelors degree in a STEM field, preferably Computer Science
• Proven track record of shipping high-quality software, apps and services
• Collaborative attitude while also being highly self-directed
• Proactive in self-development and healthy attitude in receiving feedback
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Across Afresh, we use a mix of technologies: Python, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Apache Spark, Pandas and SQL to name a few

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.

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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.

Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference.