Senior Backend Engineer, Blank Street
Equity available
4 days a week in office
Coffee chain
Job no longer available
Coffee chain
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Equity available
4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the defining food and beverage brands of our generation.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive in a high growth environment and have a thirst for startup life
- You love coffee and are energized by the creative potential within the coffee world
- A Bachelor’s degree or above in a relevant field
- Have worked on production consumer products
- Experience in NodeJS/Javascript programming framework
- An entrepreneurial mindset. Ideally you’ll have built your own products in the past
- Capable of taking on a challenge. No task is beneath you, no task is above you
- Ability to be a cross-disciplinary team member. You’re excited to learn a new skill and are able to communicate with colleagues in completely different disciplines
- You're a team player. You are implicitly collaborative and energized by teamwork
- You're passionate about Blank Street and coffee. Loving what you do makes the job even sweeter
What the job involves
- As a senior engineer for our backend you’ll be at the forefront of building amazing products for our customers and business
- We’re on a path to build the most exceptional mobile experience for interacting with Blank Street - ordering, pickup, Regulars, surprise and delight, personalization and more
- Collaborate with our core team working on our backend systems across various technology products, including the app, POS, and internal tools
- Work on a wide scope of critical initiatives to work on, from core product functionality, to experimentation frameworks, to machine learning, to launching whole new products like our Regulars program
- Collaborate closely with our product and design teams, with exposure to company leadership
- Contribute to the product roadmap and strategy, and be expected to contribute your ideas, push back as needed, and advocate for quality engineering
Salary benchmarks
Our take
More people deserve great coffee and Blank Street strives to make this possible. Blank Street’s formula involves technology enabled, micro-footprint brick-and-mortar spaces which operate at a cheap price meaning they can produce excellent coffee, also, at a reasonable price.
What started as one electric-powered coffee cart in 2020 has expanded to over 90 locations across the US and the UK. Blank Street wants to serve coffee cheaper than Starbucks but tastier than Dunkin’ Donuts – its main competitors – and has done so with automation, specifically Eversys espresso makers that can produce 700 drinks an hour.
The chain has received mighty financing too, including from real estate tycoon Tishman Speyer as well as from General Catalyst Partners and Tiger Global Management. This brand is certainly making its mark as its growth has remained at an impressive rate, especially following its entrance into the thriving coffee shop market in the UK.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20m
EARLY VC
Oct 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52m
Company HQ
South Williamsburg, NY
Leadership
Issam Freiha
(Co-Founder & CEO)Issam co-founded Blank Street in 2020 alongside Vinay. Previously, he was a Partner at Reshape Ventures and Graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics & Statistics.
Vinay Menda
(Co-Founder & President)Vinay graduated from NYU Stern School of Business with a Bachelor's Degree in Finance in 2015. And he is currently a Managing Partner at Reshape Ventures.
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