Senior Software Engineer, Afresh Technologies
Infrastructure
$156-211k
More information about location
SaaS for grocery store operations
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SaaS for grocery store operations
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$156-211k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- We recognize strong engineers come from many backgrounds and advance at different paces
- For this Senior role, candidates typically have 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience (or equivalent experience)
- We’re looking for someone who has repeatedly delivered complex technical work in production environments, can turn ambiguous problems into a plan, and can execute with a high level of ownership and good judgment
- Cloud infrastructure — You have operated and maintained mission-critical cloud infrastructure with high uptime
- You can design and implement scalable infrastructure (Azure preferred, but AWS/GCP are also fine), including core cloud networking (VPC/VNet design, routing, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity), and you can build improvements that make it easier for service owners to manage their own systems
- Incident response / disaster recovery — You have led or played a key role in high-severity production incidents
- You can troubleshoot complex issues, restore service, and communicate clearly with stakeholders
- You write and maintain runbooks and playbooks to reduce MTTR and avoid reliance on individual subject-matter experts. Preferred: experience implementing automation to reduce manual intervention
- Proficiency in Terraform — Strong experience writing, maintaining, and operating production Terraform codebases
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language — Beyond IaC, you can solve problems by writing and maintaining production code (Python preferred, but others are fine)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes — You can operate and troubleshoot workloads in a Kubernetes cluster and help maintain what we have in place
- AI-assisted development — You actively use AI coding assistants and are comfortable integrating LLM-based tooling into infrastructure workflows (code generation, log analysis, runbook automation). You stay curious about new AI capabilities and look for practical ways to apply them
- Startup mindset — You prioritize effectively, stay focused on impact, and are comfortable with ambiguity. You can make progress quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and reliability
- Relentless delivery focus — You make commitments and deliver. You surface risks early, communicate clearly when tradeoffs are needed, and keep momentum without relying on personal heroics
- Collaborative teammate — You build strong working relationships, incorporate feedback, and help unblock others. You provide mentorship through code reviews, pairing, and sharing context, and you raise the bar through example
- Strong self-management — You invest in your own growth, maintain healthy boundaries, and use time off appropriately
- Project leadership — You can drive a project or well-scoped initiative: align with partners on requirements and success criteria, write or contribute to technical designs, and coordinate execution through launch
- Customer partnership — You communicate well with partner teams, seek to understand their needs, validate solutions early, and know when and how to push back constructively when tradeoffs are required
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, you will be a key member of Afresh’s Infrastructure engineering team. You will build and improve the infrastructure and tooling that helps our service-owning teams ship reliably, operate safely, and move quickly
- Own and deliver infrastructure projects end-to-end, from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and iteration
- Build and improve platform primitives that make it easier for service teams to deploy, operate, and debug their services
- Improve observability and operational readiness so we can detect issues early, reduce time-to-recovery, and prevent repeat incidents
- Identify and implement cost and performance improvements across our cloud infrastructure and developer tooling
- Work closely with Security to implement practical security controls and protect sensitive data (for example, least-privilege access, secret management, and network controls)
- Participate in our on-call rotation and continuously improve monitoring and alerting to maintain a low page rate
- Stay current on infrastructure best practices and evaluate improvements with a pragmatic, impact-focused mindset
Application process
- As part of our hiring process, you will be asked to complete a background check once an offer of employment has been accepted
Our take
Antiquated inventory management systems are detrimental to grocers' money and time. Generalized and paper-based systems result in the over-purchase of stock, and this results in waste of fresh food and financial budgets.
Afresh has created an operating system designed specifically to manage inventory and sales of fresh food. The system is powered by AI to help provide forecasting and analysis of inventories, helping grocers stock more economically and thus waste less fresh food.
The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and has partnered with thousands of stores in 40 states across the US. Clients include Albertsons, WinCo Foods, Heinen's, Save Mart, Bashas and Cub Foods.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$115m
SERIES B
Nov 2020
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $147.8m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- Generous parental leave
- Equity packages
- 401k matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Monthly grocery stipend
- Professional development program
- Monthly physical / mental health stipend
- Work from home stipend
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt Schwartz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a consultant for Bain before going on to pursue their passion for food systems. They also previously founded Statfoods.
Volodymyr Kuleshov
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Has a PhD in computer science from Stanford. Alongside Afresh, they are an Assistant Professor in the technology department at Cornell.
Nathan Fenner
(Co-Founder)Has a Bachelors, Masters and MBA from Stanford University. Post studying, they became a Lecturer at Stanford in the Mechanical Engineering department before working at Liquid Robotics.
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