Marketplace for homemade food

Software Engineer - TypeScript / React / Node / GraphQL at Shef (YC W19)

Location
San Francisco, CA / Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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About the role

About Shef

At Shef, we are building a marketplace for home cooks. We believe in providing the shefs in our community (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents, retirees) 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. As one of TechCrunch's "favorite YC startups" backed by prominent Silicon Valley VCs and investors -- we have a ton of exciting work ahead of us!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrawilson1/2020/08/20/home-cooking-on-demand-this-food-delivery-company-just-raised-88-million/#26d8820b63d4

About the role


As a software engineer, 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 CTO.

Your 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.
  • Establishing best practices, design patterns, and frameworks for new areas of our tech stack
  • Own your code. You're responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and iterating on your features.
  • You will be a key team member, helping to build out our consumer and chef facing websites.
  • Building out features in our mobile app using React Native.
  • Reporting directly to CTO

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of industry experience
  • Self-starter who is smart, driven, and hardworking
  • Preferred skills: GraphQL, Apollo, Node
  • Excited about Shef's mission of unlocking the home-cooked food industry
  • Wants to own a part of the product from end to end - looking at data, coming up with ideas, speccing and launching new products.
  • Brings a heavy focus on increasing revenue.
  • Has a good understanding of user behavior.
  • Has experience with funnel analysis and A/B testing
  • Bonus for past experience working on food & restaurant products or online marketplaces

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

Shef
Founded:2019
Team Size:100
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Joey Grassia
Joey Grassia
CEO
Alvin Salehi
Alvin Salehi
CEO