Senior Full Stack Engineer, Chef Robotics
Autonomous cooking robot developer
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Autonomous cooking robot developer
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world to empower humans to do what humans do best.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in web frameworks such as Angular, React, Node.js, or their equivalents in other languages (we use React)
- Experience in building reliable and scalable products, with a focus on complex application development
- Strong experience in integrating customer APIs and webhooks via POS systems (e.g., Toast, NCR Aloha, Elo, itsacheckmate, Brink)
- A keen eye for design excellence and a commitment to delivering a fluid user experience
- Proficient with design tools like Sketch and Figma to create and implement basic UI/UX designs
- Extensive experience in building backend infrastructure on AWS or other cloud services
- Admin experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including creating schemas to parse and store data effectively
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes (or equivalents)
- Knowledge of automated configuration management using tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, or others
- Experience with CICD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, etc
- Mastery of dev/build tools like Git, Node.js, npm, Grunt, Gulp, Babel, Webpack
- Strong expertise in frontend technologies such as CSS3, HTML5, and React
- Experience with Python scripting, including basic modules like NumPy
- Solid understanding of REST API design and development
- Experience creating web applications using JavaScript frameworks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with teams
- Experience working in agile and scrum teams, collaborating with product leaders to meet deadlines and objectives
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering
What the job involves
- Chef Robotics is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to play a key role in developing cloud-based applications for Chef Robotics
- Initially, this role will focus on building cloud dashboards that enable line workers to operate and control Chef, as well as corporate-facing dashboards that allow customers to program the system efficiently
- As the role evolves, the engineer will work extensively on backend, cloud, and infrastructure projects, including provisioning robots for seamless deployment, enabling remote software updates to enhance performance and reliability, and developing systems for real-time remote robot control
- This is a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge robotics technology and shape the software that powers intelligent automation
- Design and develop frontend code for a customer-facing user interface, focusing on usability and user experience
- Write React code to build a human-machine interface, enabling end customers to interact seamlessly with the Chef system
- Collaborate closely with firmware engineers, controls engineers, and the robotic software engineering team to ensure smooth integration across systems
- Design and implement APIs to integrate with databases, enabling efficient data exchange between frontend and backend
- Set up cloud infrastructure from scratch using Amazon AWS, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability
- Design a database schema for the system and develop processes to efficiently parse and store customer data within the correct database architecture
- Develop APIs to query and retrieve customer data from edge computers, ensuring seamless data flow
- Conduct research, design, document, implement, and test software systems in line with product development requirements, applying principles of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis
- Create Python scripts to deliver integrated solutions across edge computers, ensuring system coherence and functionality
- Follow appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development lifecycle to produce high-quality technical engineering products
Our take
In recent years, kitchen automation has surged, yet challenges persist in addressing the nuanced complexities of food preparation and assembly.
Chef Robotics tackles this by prioritizing food assembly over cooking, acknowledging the diverse factors that shape culinary outcomes. With its advanced robotics and AI-driven software, ChefOS, the company navigates the intricacies of ingredient preparation, cooking methods, and storage conditions, ensuring consistent quality across diverse recipes and ingredients.
Chef's recent funding round underscores investor confidence in its innovative approach. With a focus on robotics-as-a-service (RaaS), Chef aims to democratize access to advanced automation, offering scalable solutions for food businesses. As it expands across the US and Canada, securing partnerships with Fortune 500 food companies, Chef heralds a future where technology enhances culinary excellence, revolutionizing efficiency and creativity in the kitchen.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
54% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$10.5m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$7.7m
SEED
Total funding: $25.3m
Company values
- Customer and User Obsession: We’re here to serve our customers and users. Go backwards from the customers and obsess after giving them the best experience possible
- Deliver results and follow through: Results matter, not "effort." Done is better than perfect. Finish what you start. A documented mistake of an idea that didn't work is positive. Constantly release, test, and deploy little bytes instead of waiting for one large deployment
- Move with extreme velocity and focus: Velocity matters. We’re serving customers where a little downtime can cost millions. Ship fast and be laser focused on what matters. Work smart and hard
- Meritocracy to find the truth: The best idea wins not your seniority. Use logic to support your thinking. Always discuss the idea not attack the speaker. When a decision is made, disagree and commit wholly
- Radical transparency: No passive aggression. If someone isn’t doing something right, tell them. Be brutally honest with feedback and don’t sugar coat anything. Trust in your team
- Hire the very best people: If enough smart people are in a room together, we'll figure it out. Hire slow rather than to "fill a role."
- Simplicity and Frugality: Have just enough and no more. Constantly simplify. Always ask: "how could I accomplish what I'm trying to with 10x less money?
- Play for the name on the front of the jersey: "Play for the name on the front of the jersey...people will start remembering the name on the back." We all have individualistic desires but by working for the good of the company in the short term, you make yourself significantly better off in the long term. When in doubt of how to make a decision, ask: is this in the true, authentic best interest of Chef?
- Challenge your beliefs and aim to find truth: Assume your ideas are wrong and constantly stress test them. The default is that your idea is wrong and that you have to prove it’s right (not the other way around). Seek diverse perspectives. Always ask why, why, why? Break things down to the first principles and then build back up
- Take initiative and win: Figure out what needs to be done - without anyone telling you - and then win. We’re here to win not just for a job
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rajat Bhageria
(CEO)Previously the co-founder and CEO of ThirdEye Technologies. They now write for both Forbes and TechCrunch alongside being a Managing Partner at Prototype Capital.
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