Software Engineer, Foodsteps
React
£60-70k
Environmental footprint labels for the food industry
Be an early applicant
Environmental footprint labels for the food industry
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£60-70k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower the food industry to accelerate its journey to net zero.
Role
Who you are
- You have significant experience building complex user interfaces using React and Typescript
- You have experience building custom data visualisations, making use of libraries such as D3 or chartjs, and are proficient with CSS
- You are well versed in React best practices and design patterns such as component composition, hooks and providers
- You have experience setting up, developing and maintaining libraries of custom components that are closely aligned with UI design artefacts created in Figma
- You are proficient in automated front-end testing
- You have some experience building software applications in Python, developing APIs, using GraphQL and REST, and back end business logic when required
- You will be motivated by working in a small team in a dynamic environment where every initiative makes a difference to achieving our goals, and requirements evolve frequently
- You will have experience picking up new technologies quickly
What the job involves
- Foodsteps is hiring an experienced software engineer to focus on our front end!
- In this role you will be working directly on product initiatives that make a real difference to our customers' food sustainability journey and directly contribute to the Foodstep’s mission
- You will define and mentor other engineers in front end development best practices and patterns and collaborate with our product designer to define and optimise our front end design and development processes with a particular focus on creating reusable components from Figma designs
- You will influence and define best practice process, design and patterns more broadly across our product team and product
- As an experienced software engineer you will be responsible for the technical design, implementation, testing, release and support of our application with a particular focus on our React front end
- You will be working closely with our small team of in house software engineers, product manager and product designer, as well as a small team of remote contractors
- As part of this team you will work in fortnightly sprints and release to production several times a sprint
- Working very closely with teams across the company, you will enjoy working as part of a broader cross-functional team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Food systems are responsible for over 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. So it is crucial the industry addresses its environmental impact. Foodsteps is a food sustainability start-up that aims to allow food businesses to measure, reduce and communicate their environmental impact.
Foodsteps has developed a database that contains the environmental impact of more than 1,000 ingredients. Leveraging this, the company helps both brands and food service providers to calculate and communicate the footprint of menus and products.
The company's long-term goal is to make sustainability an easy choice for food businesses. To this end, its platform also enables companies to monitor reductions in emissions, set targets and print their own environmental labels. In 2024, Foodsteps was acquired by Registrar Corp, which sees it gain access to a global market of over 32,000 companies - a great chance to broaden its reach
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2022
$4.1m
SEED
Total funding: $4.1m
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Anya Doherty
(Founder & Managing Director)Earned a BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Previously Co-Founder at Youngwilders for 2 years.
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