Chief Technology Officer, Taster
+ Quarterly bonus scheme
Remote 50%
2-3 days a week in office
Platform of digital food brands
Be an early applicant
Platform of digital food brands
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Quarterly bonus scheme
Remote 50%
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the world's largest restaurant group through a powerful platform of digital food brands.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for a hands-on leader with experience in scaling tech teams, fostering innovation, and driving transformation
- Experience: Minimum of 10 years in technology leadership roles, preferably within a scale-up or high-growth tech environment
- Technical Expertise: Strong foundation in software development, systems architecture, and/or cloud infrastructure, with an understanding of the latest trends in tech
- Strong Product affinity, and Agile mindset & experience
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead and inspire a cross-functional tech team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Strategic Vision: Ability to translate business goals into a clear and actionable tech roadmap
- Problem Solving: Adept at tackling complex challenges and driving innovative solutions
- Communication: Excellent communicator with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
- Industry Knowledge: Experience in food-tech, digital commerce is a plus
- Fluency in both French and English - another European language is a plus
What the job involves
- As Taster's CTO, you will spearhead our technology vision and play a key role in product development, engineering management, and digital strategy
- Working closely with our CEO and other leadership members, you'll align technology initiatives with business goals, leverage technology to drive business growth and kitchen efficiencies and develop/benchmark solutions for robotics in kitchens
- You will lead a team of 14 people split among Product, Front and Back End engineers and Data team
- Our Tech solutions cover all the aspect of our business:
- Solution for the kitchen operations
- Solution for the franchisees to monitor their overall performance
- Solution on Supply for Order management
- Internal Back end tools
- Automation of processes
- BI
- Our Tech stack is mainly : Python, React and Typescript based on a Google Cloud serverless structure
- Technology Strategy: Define and implement Taster’s technology vision and strategy in alignment with the company’s growth objectives and mission
- Product Development: Lead the engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable products, ensuring they meet customer and market needs
- Infrastructure & Scalability: Oversee the design, deployment, and scaling of Taster’s technical infrastructure to support rapid growth
- Team Leadership & Growth: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing technology team; foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration
- Collaboration with Leadership: Work closely with other executives (CEO, COO, Head of Revenue) to ensure that technology aligns with overall business strategy and operational goals
- Data & Analytics: Implement and optimise data-driven decision-making processes across all aspects of the business
- Cybersecurity & Compliance: Ensure Taster’s platforms and systems are secure, compliant, and reliable, proactively managing risks
- Budgeting & Resource Allocation: Manage the technology budget (People, Infra, Tooling), prioritising resources effectively to drive the highest impact
- Innovation: Keep up to date with robotics innovation in the kitchen industry
Our take
VC investment has been pouring into food delivery startups over recent years, as the restaurant industry’s fastest growing market saw a doubling-down on innovation. This has spelt trouble for smaller independent locales struggling to digitally transform, and the continued rise of dark kitchens (where delivery capacity, usually for chain brands, is substantially expanded at a fraction of the overhead) is only making this worse. Taster might prove a welcome compromise.
The company partners with restaurants to plug their brands into their existing kitchens. It means that restaurants can earn (potentially) an additional £5,000 - £25,000 per week.
Taster currently has 5 brands. By avoiding the need to build kitchens, the company can enter new cities much quicker and harness the local market knowledge of restaurant owners. They now have a vast range of digital restaurants across 70 cities, and have delivered millions of meals.
The company has won impressive VC funding to help them expand their already substantial European presence. Taster are a welcome, and exciting, development in this highly lucrative market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$0.6m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $49.8m
Company benefits
- Private healthcare
- Choice of Mac or PC
- Flexible work environment
- Regular team events
- Quarterly bonuses
Company HQ
King's Cross, London
Articles
Leadership
Anton Soulier
(CEO)Previously a founder at Nunée desserts. Went on to become the Deputy General Manager, France for Deliveroo.
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