Shef
Marketplace for homemade food
Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack
About the role
WHAT WE DO
At Shef, we are building a homemade food marketplace. We believe in providing the shefs in our community (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents, retirees and out-of-work restaurant chefs) the opportunity to make a meaningful income by doing what they love! We also believe that every person should have access to a wholesome, home-cooked meal at an affordable price. Building a community devoted to economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity -- that's why we started Shef.
We are committed to reimagining home cooking regulations around the country to help put people back to work following the COVID-19 pandemic and have raised nearly $30M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and M13, as well as founders and executives from Instacart, TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and Yelp. We have a ton of exciting work ahead of us and are excited to have you join us!
ROLE
As a senior software engineer in this <u>REMOTE</u> position, at Shef you will be responsible for building delightful experiences for consumers and chefs across the country. You will optimize the shopping experience for our consumers, and build out micro-entrepreneurship tools for our shefs to run their own businesses. If we succeed, you will have fundamentally changed how people purchase food and the variety of healthy, affordable, and authentic food that they have access to. This role reports directly to the Head of Engineering and can be fully remote.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Think like a Product Manager - Discovering insights, opportunities, and requirements for new features
- Build new features that delight our consumers and help our Shefs grow their own businesses
- Own your code
- Monitor, analyze, and iterate on features
- You will be a key team member, helping to build out our consumer and Shef facing websites
- Use analytics to identify areas of impact and new product ideas
- Report directly to the Head of Engineering
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience with React
- Experience with Typescript
PREFERRED
- Experience with GraphQL
- Very interested in ownership and product
- Highly motivated
- Self-starter who is smart, driven, and hardworking
- Excited about Shef's mission of unlocking the home-cooked food industry
- Desire to own a part of the product from end to end - looking at data, coming up with ideas, spec'ing and launching new products
At Shef, we are building a platform that celebrates difference and cultural inclusivity by providing equitable opportunities for economic empowerment and by reimagining food making and sharing in our 21st century world. Our employee, shef, and customer communities represent a wide, beautiful cross-section of individuals from diverse cultures, ethnicities, races, and walks of life.
Why you should join Shef
At Shef, we’re rebuilding the food system from scratch, redefining who can participate in the food economy, and returning personal connection to the making, eating, and sharing of food.
Shef is an online marketplace for local, food safety certified cooks to connect with customers in their community and earn a meaningful income selling homemade dishes.
75% of shefs are women and 80% are people of color. Together, they represent nearly 100 countries around the world, from Algeria to Korea, to India and Venezuela. Shefs are aunties and abuelas, immigrants and refugees, stay-at-home parents and restaurant dreamers. They’re passionate local cooks in your community who are doing what they love most — sharing their food and culture with you.
Shef is also part of a growing movement to build a more inclusive food system for all. We are proud to support and champion advocacy efforts to expand home cooking laws across the country so that talented cooks everywhere can earn a meaningful income from their own kitchens.
Join us: https://jobs.lever.co/shef
