Lollipop

Lollipop is always looking for the next amazing person to join what's already a hard-working, respectful and cohesive team. Nobody has ever looked at me as the "new guy"; I have never once felt looked down on by anyone in the company, and it's really helped me settle in quickly and feel at home here. Everyone respects and values one another here.

We work in plain sight. I have never worked at a company where everything is so transparent - people's schedules, workloads & even their salaries are open to all, because we're all part of the same team.

We're ambitious: what we are taking on with Lollipop is a mountain of a challenge. Most families have to do some form of weekly shop, and it's not an easy task to do. There is so much scope to enhance this experience in today's busy world, and we're taking this challenge on quite like nobody else.

I love the energy at Lollipop, everyone is eager to lend a hand when required, give and receive feedback, work together to deliver an amazing product while building and nurturing a fantastic team! Whether that's "boshing" through customer support issues, shipping the next feature, or finding the next great addition to the team.

One of the core operating principles at Lollipop is working in the open. Everyone is encouraged to and understand the value of having conversations in the open, sharing work early and often and how it helps us to collaborate better and get to a better solution. We're hard on problems, not people -- the responsibility we have as a collective to provide thoughtful and honest feedback with the right tone when sharing early and often is a key enabler of the open and honest communication we can foster.

Lollipop is an early stage company, with lots of things to build and experiment with there is a business need to be able to "move fast". However, we enable ourselves to move fast and build a sustainably fast pace by investing in our tooling in order to ensure we can continue to deliver value to the business and to our customers not only today but next week as well. We want to be Kipchoge, not Bolt -- we want to be running our marathon at a world beating pace, we need to be investing in our tools continually in order to achieve this balance.

As we're such a small team, your thoughts and feelings are considered. Our Founders truly care about you as individuals and this comes out in everything that you do at Lollipop. I definitely feel personally cared for. We are also given the autonomy to run with things we've never done before which is incredible for personal growth.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is fundamental to how we want to build Lollipop. TFC our Founder is a huge advocate for helping under represented groups succeed and thrive, inside and outside Lollipop. The team really take time to understand who they are working with and what experiences they bring to the table! I'm excited to see what we can do to be better.

No one has ever built what we want to build. We don't just want to build a cool product, but one that will help individuals, families and society as a whole. The things that really resonate with me are; reducing the stereotype of people who identify as females doing the shopping and cooking; allowing people with allergies and dietary requirements to find yummy safe food; and supporting people to understand their carbon footprint/helping to reduce food waste. There is so much we can do here!