Senior Backend Engineer, Lunchbox
Zope
Ordering system for restaurants
Open for applications
Ordering system for restaurants
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help restaurants engage with new and existing customers, developing personalized campaigns suited to their lifestyles.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 10+ years of backend development experience, with a strong focus on Zope and Python
- Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Zope, including its architecture, components, and customizations
- Skills: Proficiency in Python programming and related frameworks
- Database Management: Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data modeling
- Deployment: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and cloud-based deployments (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Testing: Strong experience in writing unit tests and automated testing frameworks
- Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within a distributed team
Desirable
- Familiarity with Plone or other content management systems built on Zope
- Experience with asynchronous programming and frameworks like AsyncIO
- Understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of security best practices for web applications
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will lead the development, optimization, and maintenance of our backend systems built on Zope.
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our platform's architecture is robust, scalable, and meets the needs of a rapidly evolving market
- Architect and Develop: Design, implement, and maintain backend systems using Zope and Python
- Performance Optimization: Analyze and optimize the performance of existing systems, ensuring high availability and reliability
- Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, following industry best practices
- Technical Leadership: Mentor junior developers, provide technical guidance, and review code
- Integration: Collaborate with front-end developers and other teams to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Problem-Solving: Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to Zope applications
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for system architecture, processes, and workflows
Our take
Even though restaurants benefit from the business provided by delivery platforms such as Uber Eats and Grubhub, there are significant fees involved, and restaurants may also lose regular customers to these marketplaces.
Lunchbox is a food-tech start-up that enables restaurants to build ordering experiences on their own websites and apps. It helps them engage directly with their customers, offer a more personalized service, and improve their profit margin.
Lunchbox's customer base has grown significantly since 2019, partly due to the increase in sales that the platform is able to deliver, and it already works with an impressive roster of multi-site clients, like Mexicue, Mulberry & Vine and Clean Juice. With strong funding at its back, the company plans to recruit more restaurants (not just chains but small, independent ones), improve the product, and expand its team.
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Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"So far Lunchbox has been great. The product itself is second to none, the people are unbelievable, and upper leadership takes and implements..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2022
$50m
SERIES B
Oct 2020
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $72m
Company benefits
- Equity packages
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Online mental health therapy — we make wellness a priority!
- Unlimited PTO from day one and paid leave for all new parents
- A WFH stipend, monthly wellness allowance, and amazing Lunchbox merchandise
- The coolest perk ever — we’ll pay for any food-related tattoo!
Company values
- Customer is always first: We exist to fight the old regime. To be David fighting Goliath. To bring the profits back to the restaurants
- Act like you own the kitchen: We're working towards a big mission. We get sh*t done. We're a team of executors, empowered to drive the mission home
- We're a team, not a family: We work with and learn from the best-of-the-best. We are regularly pushed out of our comfort zones to grow in our own space
- Top talent is in every seat: Everyone who joins us changes our company a little more. We hire bar-raisers with inclusivity, talent and execution in mind
- Move fast, break things: We love an ugly V1. We work to preserve the founding moment and we stay hungry and foolish. We break things and then repair them
- We're transparent and direct: We share almost everything. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Transparency strengthens the integrity of the culture
- Always amp it up: Fortune favors the bold and stubborn. And we're both. We're moving towards a mission with a heavy lift. We're optimistics and executors
Company HQ
NoMad, New York, NY
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Leadership
Nabeel Alamgir
(CEO)They worked as a Creative Specialist for Apple for a year, before working as CMO of Bareburger Group. They left this role in November 2019 to co-found Lunchbox, where they have worked as CEO since.
Andrew Boryk
(Head of Innovation)They worked as CTO of Tapt from 2015 to 2017 while studying at Mercy College, alongside working as a Freelance iOS Developer. They served as a Software Engineer at Johnson & Johnson before co-founding Lunchbox in April 2019.
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