Staff Data Engineer, Afresh Technologies
CA$163-190k
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SaaS for grocery store operations
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SaaS for grocery store operations
101-200 employees
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CA$163-190k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience designing and maintaining ETLs that process large-scale datasets
- Proficiency with Python, PySpark, SQL, and experience working on platforms/tools like Databricks, Snowflake, or DBT
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work with ambiguous or incomplete requirements to deliver concrete, impactful solutions
- A focus on practical outcomes—you're skilled at balancing technical rigor with the need to get things done
- Experience working directly with complex, unclean datasets and finding innovative ways to process and analyze them
- A knack for identifying areas where tooling or automation can simplify workflows and reduce manual effort
- Excellent communication skills—you’re able to explain your ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven leadership in technical projects, with a willingness to mentor and help others grow
What the job involves
- As a Staff Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in scaling and improving how we integrate and process customer data
- You will design and implement ETLs that reliably process large volumes of customer-provided data and build tools to make customer integrations faster, more accurate, and more scalable
- You’ll also contribute to the development of new features that support our expanding product lines
- Your work will have a direct and visible impact on our ability to onboard customers easier and quicker and power our machine learning grocery solution
- Build tools and frameworks that streamline customer integrations, enabling faster onboarding and better handling of customer data
- Create robust ETLs in PySpark and DBT to process billions of records from customer datasets, ensuring data is accurate, reliable, and ready for downstream use
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to design and deliver data solutions for new products and features
- Identify and implement optimizations to improve ETL runtime and data processing scalability, reducing the time and effort required for integrations
- Solve real-world data quality challenges by working directly with messy, incomplete, or inconsistent customer data to extract the signal we need
- Investigate and implement new technologies into the data platform, focusing on practical solutions that address current pain points and anticipate future needs
- Support team members by mentoring engineers, leading technical discussions, and providing clear, actionable feedback
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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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 values
- Humility - We serve our customers and teammates, and listen to their needs—especially those who don’t look or live like us
- Proactivity - We identify opportunities, own problems, and act with purpose to keep moving forward
- Candor - We believe feedback makes us better and value transparent communication
- Kindness - We care for the entire person and work to create an environment where people feel welcome.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Afresh Technologies
- We’re building belonging - Diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to achieving our mission. We’re creating a workplace where everyone belongs, and team members feel empowered to make a difference while living and working as their authentic selves
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