Staff Engineer, Choco
Web Platforms
3 days a week in office
Enabling a sustainable food system
Job no longer available
Enabling a sustainable food system
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Choco's mission is to lead a change in one of the oldest industries on the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional hands-on experience as a senior, lead engineer or staff engineer in complex development projects
- Expert in various frontend technologies and modern frontend frameworks, and testing frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress
- You are fluent in Typescript and keen on trying out new technologies
- Strong experience with complex microservices, event-driven architecture, integrations and developing APIs
- Very deep knowledge in system designs and software architectures
- Previous experience in defining and building up CI/CD pipelines to support development
- Ability to drive the technical vision of a 50+ engineering organization and drive business critical projects
- Ability to identify, articulate issues and take ownership for delivering practical solutions, while prioritizing tasks effectively
- Outstanding communication and influencing skills combined with empathy and eagerness to share and develop others
- Good learning ability, open-mindedness and good self-organizational skills will be absolutely key to the success of your work and the business overall
- Experience with Microservices, Event-driven architecture, Integrations and Developing APIs
What the job involves
- Directly reporting to the Head of Engineering, the Staff Frontend Engineer is pivotal in steering our web engineering strategy
- This role is tasked with leading high-impact technical projects spanning across cross-functional product teams, enhancing our microfrontend architecture, and ensuring the development of cutting-edge web products
- As a functional expert, the Staff Frontend Engineer plays both a consultative and hands-on role
- But this role is about more than expertise - it's also about mentorship
- Our Staff Frontend Engineer aids fellow engineers, fostering an environment where technical skills are continuously sharpened and expanded
- From enhancing our application processes to fortifying security measures and optimizing engineering tasks, their contributions resonate throughout the entire tech infrastructure
- In our dynamic technical landscape, the Staff Frontend Engineer stands as a beacon of expertise, always driving forward with precision and professionalism
- Drive the organization’s engineering strategy for web. Bringing the interests of engineering and the company together
- Discover, incept and drive strategic technical projects arching over several cross-functional product teams
- Work with our engineering teams to enhance its microfrontend architecture and platform to develop cutting edge web products
- Act as a functional expert, a go-to person, an impact-multiplier, an enabler and as a troubleshooter when needed
- Share your knowledge, develop expertise in our product and grow with your team to become an even greater engineer. Mentor other engineers and support them to acquire both wide and deep technical knowledge
- Touch and improve different areas of our applications through tooling, CI/CD, security, or related engineering processes
- We use React, TypeScript, micro frontends architecture, Jest, Styled Components for our web frontend. Our mobile apps are written in Kotlin, Swift, Flutter and we utilize AppSync with GraphQL
- We have a cutting-edge environment and use NodeJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS DynamoDB and our infrastructure is powered by AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline and AWS S3
Our take
The restaurant industry has seen vast technological innovations throughout the last decade, yet the state of supply chain ordering and administration does not reflect this. Restaurants are still using archaic paperwork to order from suppliers, and this has the tendency to become clunky, inaccurate, and result in food waste. Choco exists to improve this situation by connecting restaurants and suppliers through its food ecosystem management software.
Choco isn't the only company to notice the potential for disruption in this space, but it has taken a unique approach by providing bespoke inventory applications and analytical tools to both restaurants and suppliers. It has a large and rapidly growing userbase and its supply chain now links more than 30,000 businesses, with more than £1.2 billion in goods traded on its platform.
Choco raised large amounts of capital in several funding rounds and achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. It has eyes on expansion, currently working with clients across the U.S. and Europe but planning to begin operations in South America, the Middle East, and Asia in the near future.
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Hard working team
"An incredible operations team who works hard every single day. They build genuine relationships with every interaction they make. So blessed to be..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$26.1m
LATE VC
Dec 2022
$34.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335.1m
Company values
- Team
- Ownership
- Focus
- Understanding
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Daniel Khachab
(CEO)Experienced as Global Venture Development Manager and CEO of Rocket Internet SE. Co-founded Choco as CEO in 2018.
Julian Hammer
(CMO)Before co-founding Choco freelanced in product & marketing with Ace & Tate, BuzzHire and UpLabs. Before that was Senior Venture Associate with EPIC Companies and the Head of Marketing Intelligence for Global Savings Group.
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