Lead Full Stack Engineer, Zest (formerly The Wonki Collective)
£70-110k
+ Equity
1-2 days a week in office
Leveraging data and AI to eradicate supply chain food waste
Be an early applicant
Leveraging data and AI to eradicate supply chain food waste
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£70-110k
+ Equity
1-2 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make sure good food feeds humans, before waste systems.
Role
Who you are
- Built software that has since scaled with speed and stability
- Led/owned the process to scale a product or software
- Worked on ML/AI based products or features
- Worked with APIs, webhooks, and data normalisation
- A thrifty development approach to ship solid MVPs at speed
- Able to build scalable enterprise grade software from scratch
- Completely full stack; strategic overview from conception to delivery of the end-to-end software architecture
- User-centric design, with an eye for detail in UI/UX to create experiences that are intuitive and engaging whilst also functional
- A total wizard in the stack of your choice for front and back end development
- Expert at managing complex relational databases
Desirable
- Bonus: understanding of UK food system and ERP systems (e.g. SAP)
- A Strategic Operator 🐝– You love to think big picture as much as you love to get your hands dirty, doing the doing
- Have a Strong Product Mindset 🧠 – You have a solid understanding of building features directly for customers
- Thrive with the Startup Hustle 🔥– You’re agile, can think on your feet and work best in a fast-paced, ever changing environment
- Speak tech, talk people 👩💻– You can make even the most complicated technical solutions seem simple
- Own Your Work 💪 – You thrive with autonomy, taking full ownership of your projects, and delivering work that drives real impact
- An Entrepreneur at Heart 💛 – You have built your own side hustles, products, or even founded your own startup
- Excellent communicator, with the ability to deal with non-technical stakeholders
- Knows how to work with early-stage tech businesses, identifying problems, solving them, thriving with uncertainty
What the job involves
- Build from Scratch 👷– Work from the ground up to help materialise our vision, building the high-level system architecture
- Use Your Favourite Tools 🌟– Have a say in what technologies and tools we will use, shaping the tech stack for scalability
- Ship Features That Matter – Develop essential components that help food manufacturers reduce food waste
- Performance Optimisation 🐞 – Ensure our platform is fast, stable, and ready to grow, tracking down bugs and fine-tuning performance
- Bring Designs to Life 💻 – Work side-by-side with our design team to turn creative visions into smooth, user-friendly tech solutions
- Work with high-scale data intensive APIs 🔗– Designing and building ERP integrations for scale, streamlining data flows
Application process
- Email (i) a short note highlighting relevant experience and why this role excites you; (ii) your full CV, to show interest in the role
- 1st stage - Initial screening interview
- 2nd stage - Technical interview
- 3rd stage - Cultural fit (preference to be in person)
- Job offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The global food supply chain suffers from 7 times more food waste at manufacturing stages than at retail, resulting in 40% of food produced never making it to market due to rigid supply chains and over ordering. Wonki Collective’s B2B SaaS platform remedies this by helping manufacturers manage their surplus stock, ensuring that high-quality ingredients remain in the food supply chain.
The Wonki Collective’s API platform automatically analyses connected food suppliers and manufacturers for wasted resources, use-by dates and the necessary health and safety documentation. It then processes this information and uses a matchmaking tool to discover the best channels for the reselling, reusing and redistribution of unused and waste materials.
Though a small and young company, The Wonki Collective has discovered a glaring hole in a market desperately requiring a shake-up. If Wonki Collective were to see widespread national adoption, the positive environmental impact could be massive. Here’s to hoping it can scale its efforts and draw in food manufacturing partners and customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Equity package
- Flexible holidays
- Work from abroad (1 month)
- Enhanced maternity / paternity packages
- Flexible working hours
- Family friendly benefits
Company HQ
Green Park, London, UK
Leadership
Alina Sartogo
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alina worked as a commercial dispute lawyer for +10 years. In parallel with her law career, she set up two businesses on the side. She decided to pursue a full-time entrepreneurial career in 2022
Dini McGrath
(Co-Founder & COO)Dini spent +8 years working in the food and drinks, which is where her eyes were opened to the problem of supply chain food waste. Winner of 2024 Women in Innovation awards
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