Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. We apply advanced machine learning techniques and a modern, streamlined user experience to optimize forecasting, ordering, and operations for fresh food grocery departments. Last year, our solutions processed 13% of all produce orders from regional and national grocery retailers in the US, and we've helped our partners prevent over 44 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:
- Collaborate with your engineering teammates to build and ship high-quality applications and services, spanning the web front-end, API, and data layers.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and our users to build rich and engaging user experiences.
- 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
- 4+ years experience with full-stack web development, including web front-end and API development
- Experience building usable, performant React apps
- Strong understanding of API development and good API design
- Collaborative attitude while also being highly self-directed
- Proven track record of shipping high-quality apps and services
- System-level problem solving 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
