Vice President of Engineering, Flashfood
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Travel as required
App for affordable, fresh groceries
Be an early applicant
App for affordable, fresh groceries
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Commission Structure
Travel as required
21-100 employees
Company mission
To feed families, not landfills.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience; 4+ years managing teams
- Recent experience with building 2-sided marketplaces or consumer focused applications is preferred
- Experience building loyalty programs, experimentation platforms, dynamic pricing capabilities, recommendation engines, or B2B partner integrations
- Proven impact at a startup that illustrates the ability to set a vision and systems-level thinking
- Experience with architecting and developing large scale, service-oriented systems, and optimizing for performance and quality
- Technical ability to run code reviews, hire all levels of developers, and scale an engineering organization
- Deep understanding of leading an engineering team through the SDLC including initiation, requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
What the job involves
- We’re seeking an operationally minded VP of Engineering to lead all aspects of software engineering, security and data
- This critical role reports directly to the CEO and will be instrumental in building and nurturing a thriving remote-first culture as the company scales
- The VP Engineering will be responsible for setting the culture and cadence for the engineering team, fostering a strong culture, increasing product velocity, and achieving schedule predictability as the company moves forward with their growth targets
- Understand the current product vision as laid-out by the Executive Team, and utilize strong technical assets and knowledge to generate the tech that best serves both the company’s immediate needs as well as our 2-5 year goals
- Technical leadership is a heavily weighted portion of this position, including the technology infrastructure, architecture, design, code review, testing, and maintenance efforts with a focus on optimizing for performance and scalability
- VP of Engineering’s team management expertise, leadership and mentoring of teams will be of equal importance. This role is tasked to lead and scale a team of skilled engineers. Recruiting, hiring, and developing an incredible technology team will be key to the success of the position
- Lead the development of the marketplace product across the full application stack in collaboration with cross functional partners and own the devops systems that enable it
- Manage trade-offs and prioritize engineering efforts based on time, cost, and quality by factoring in business needs
- Serve as the company’s foremost technical subject matter expert by maintaining knowledge of existing and emerging technologies
Our take
As the world moves to become more sustainable, issues such as global food waste are increasingly apparent. Food waste is not only a travesty because of world hunger but also because of the devastating greenhouse gas emissions caused as a result.
Flashfood considered how they could tackle this issue. The mobile marketplace provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date and salvaging food that can be used to help feed those in need or those who are unable to afford fresh and healthy food. The app allows users to browse through available deals at participating stores near them. Customers can then purchase items directly in the app and pick up orders from the Flashfood zone in their participating store.
The company has numerous partners across Canada and the United States, and has saved shoppers millions on their grocery bills, as well as removing gargantuan amounts of product from the waste cycle. Indeed, its collaboration with food solutions company SpartanNash alone has saved families $1.9M, and diverted one million pounds of food waste. Flashfood continues to develop its strategic partnerships and further its expansion, on the back on earning the number one spot in the Social Good Category on the 2023 Fast Company's list of the most innovative companies.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2022
$12.3m
SERIES A
Jul 2018
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $12.5m
Company HQ
King West Village, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Josh Domingues
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Founded Flashfood in 2016 after reading about the environmental effects of food waste. Began their career as an Investment Advisor before spending time as a Management Consultant and VP at a family office that managed financial affairs for professional hockey players.
Jordan Schenck
(CEO)Jordan initially joined the Flashfood team as a Board Member and CBO, becoming CEO in 2025. Previously they co-founded Sunwink where they served as CMO and CRO.
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