Senior Manager of Software Engineering, Wonder
$208-225k
+ Equity
4-5 days a week in office (Charlestown, MA)
Extraordinary food that comes to you
Be an early applicant
Extraordinary food that comes to you
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$208-225k
+ Equity
4-5 days a week in office (Charlestown, MA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To remake the relationship Americans have with food by revolutionising home dining.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional software experience
- 2+ years in a leadership or staff-level capacity
- Track record of quickly learning new paradigms and languages
- Experience with physical systems, IoT, or industrial automation
- A pragmatist mindset to know when to build robust, scalable solutions and when to ship a “good enough” version to unblock a B2B pilot
- Experience making design decisions collaboratively with engineers
What the job involves
- The Infinite Kitchen is the heart of Wonder’s automation future
- Having successfully deployed to 30 locations, we are now entering a pivotal phase: scaling our footprint, expanding partnerships, and diversifying our menu capabilities
- As the Sr. Manager, Software Engineering for Infinite Kitchen, you will take the baton from our Director of Engineering to become the primary technical owner of the Infinite Kitchen software ecosystem
- You will ensure that our unique stack—spanning industrial automation (PLC), robotic planning (Python), and real-time distributed systems (Elixir/Phoenix)—works in perfect harmony
- This is a high-impact leadership role for a "polyglot" technical leader and is focused on strategic technical management and mentorship rather than formal people management
- You will have technical authority for the Infinite Kitchen software
- You will lead standups, mentor software engineers across functional silos, and hold the "tie-breaking vote" on critical architectural decisions
- Technical Stewardship: Own the end-to-end software architecture of the Infinite Kitchen. You’ll ensure that changes in the Python robotics layer or PLC firmware integrate seamlessly with our Elixir-based APIs and Vue.js frontends
- Pragmatic Problem Solving: Lead the design and implementation of new high-priority features, such as multi-tenancy support for B2B clients and complex new menu logic, without over-engineering for the "scale of a million" before we hit the "scale of a hundred."
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Run daily/thrice-weekly standups. Review technical specs and code across the stack, providing feedback that levels up the entire team
- Software Quality & Velocity: Champion a culture that balances engineering excellence with business objectives. Enforce high-quality release standards and lead critical operational decisions, such as deployment rollout strategies and production monitoring
- Operational Excellence: Participate in the on-call rotation, a standard responsibility for all Infinite Kitchen engineering roles
- Bridge the Gap: Collaborate closely with Product Managers to translate business requirements into technical reality. You’ll be the person who identifies edge cases before they hit the lab floor
- Hands-on Mentorship: Get into the weeds with engineers to debug complex race conditions or integration hurdles. You aren't just drawing diagrams; you’re helping the team ship
Our take
Food delivered to your door often gets cold and soggy as it travels in a courier's bag from the restaurant to your home. Using Wonder, customers order food from a mobile app, which is cooked in a truck right outside your door. It aims to improve the standard of home-delivered food, both the quality of product – working with world-renowned chefs – and the experience itself.
Wonder has received fair criticism surrounding poor environmental consideration, as each kitchen/van sits idle with the engine running whilst food is prepared. A study by the US Department of Energy found that banning the unnecessary idling of personal vehicles would be the same as taking 5 million vehicles off the roads.
Despite this, Wonder has sustainability strategies involving food sourcing, reducing food waste, sustainable packaging, and, notably, an emissions-neutral fleet. Wonder has received enormous funding, bringing it to a valuation of $7 billion, and the number of vans distributed across North America is expected to multiply exponentially.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$700m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Medical, dental, vision
- Health savings account with employer match
- 100% employer paid life insurance
- 2x pay if you work on holidays
- Learning and development opportunities to advance your career
- Wonder offers hourly employees stock options
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Marc Lore
(Founder & CEO)Has previously (co-)founded the following companies: Global Association of Risk Professionals, The Pit, Quidsi, Jet.com, Mojo, Wizard and City of Telosa.
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