Software Engineer at Byte Kitchen (S21)
$75K - $125K  •  
Increasing restaurant profitability through our AI Operating System
San Francisco Bay Area / Remote (US)
Full-time
3+ years
About Byte Kitchen

Byte Kitchen is on a mission to bring America’s best restaurants to every neighborhood in the country through our novel operating model. We partner with stand-out restaurants and recreate their food for delivery in new markets, simultaneously expanding brand equity and consumer choice.

Byte Kitchen is backed by leading investors including Y-Combinator, Crosslink Capital, WndrCo, Soma Capital and strategic angels. We are a small and rapidly expanding team, and are seeking entrepreneurial individuals to join us.

About the role
Skills: CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Firebase, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL

Byte Kitchen has built a first of its kind Restaurant Operating System. Byte Kitchen counts many iconic restaurants as its customers including World Wrapps, Oren’s Hummus, The Little Chihuahua and others. The software is built for operators, by operators. 

Byte Kitchen is backed by leading investors including Y-Combinator, Crosslink Capital, WndrCo, Soma Capital and strategic angels like the founder of Caviar. We are a small and rapidly expanding team, and are seeking entrepreneurial individuals to join us. 

We are obsessed with what makes a great user experience - and we’re developing the tools that make it possible top to bottom in the antiquated, multi - Trillion dollar food service industry.

Your role:

We are seeking a full stack developer to expand our product offerings, help with existing technology and be the technical owner of our software suite. 

As an early member of the team you will have significant autonomy, and be involved in both the day-to-day and strategic decisions of Byte Kitchen. You will steer the direction of our technology products, and join an engineering culture that champions empathy for the end user. If you are passionate about building technology to power the future of the restaurant industry, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities:

Build and guide our growing team and evolving product as an early technology team member

Develop an in-depth understanding of our business model, space, and end user

Assist in developing our technology roadmap for both the near and long term

Work closely with the founding team on product direction decisions and strategy

Work with the founders to attract and employ likewise impassioned engineers set on bringing BK's vision to life

Ideal experience:

4+ years experience as a full stack engineer/ solutions architect

Proficiency in front end languages (JavaScript, Next.JS, React.JS, TypeScript, HTML, CSS) 

Proficiency in server-side languages (NodeJS ideal)

Experience with Cloud (Firestore ideal, AWS)

Comfort with Databases (Firebase, MySQL, Postgres)

Experience working on Vercel, Expo

Experience working with APIs

Experience building products from scratch

Excellent problem solving and communication skills

Bonus:

Startup experience / experience in food tech or logistics companies

You are:

Scrappy: you know when to prioritize speed over scalability and are comfortable making those decisions

Comfortable with ambiguity: some things you work on may never become full products. But one might change the course of this industry

Delighted to take ownership: you alone decide the ceiling of the scope of your responsibilities

We are:

Customer obsessed: we’ve grown to serve over 20 customers in a very short period of time. Every decision we take is focused on improving their experience 

Hungry: to build a solution which is a truly delightful experience for restaurants; to create the restaurant operating system of the future

Collaborative: we have no time for office politics, everyone takes out the trash, all opinions are not only welcome but highly encouraged

Compensation:

You will receive competitive compensation for a seed stage startup and a collaborative, respectful and inclusive work environment. We don’t pretend to have all the answers. But we do have an obsessive focus to figure them out and we want every single person’s input on the team to do so.

If you want to be part of a dynamic team that is transforming the way restaurants expand, please reach out to us.

Technology

We are creating a vertically integrated technology stack for our multi-concept kitchens while creating integrations with existing off-the-shelf solutions. Our technology aims to solve the dual purpose of creating the most seamless ordering experience for consumers on the front end while creating a technology powered kitchen of the future on the backend.

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