Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!
About the Role:
- Build and ship high quality applications to optimize in store operations and decision making.
- Collaborate with your engineering teammates to support thousands of grocery stores critical fresh food supply chains across the US.
- Working closely with product managers, designers, and our users, deliver great product experiences across the iPad, the web front-end, API, and data layers..
- Participate in and provide meaningful feedback about major design choices.
- Build out our analytics and monitoring/observability to understand our system behavior and make informed decisions.
- Ensure the quality of our software via automated tests
- Design and build UIs, APIs, and solutions that are reusable and extensible.
- Work alongside machine learning specialists to drive new feature development.
Skills and Experience
The following represents attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years experience with full-stack web development, including some web front-end and API development
- Experience building & maintaining production level APIs and applications
- Collaborative attitude while also being highly self-directed
- Strong problem solving skills and excitement to tackle hard problems
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, startup environment
- Required skills: TypeScript (or Javascript), React, and Python
- Nice-to-have skills: PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Databricks, DBT, Terraform/OpenTofu, Azure, pair programming, test-driven development
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About Afresh
Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.
Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.
Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.
Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference.
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