**Company Overview**
Cookonnect creates greater access to personal chef services by simplifying the
process of hiring and being a personal chef. We connect busy families with
pre-screened, professional chefs for meal prep services. While we love
providing people delicious meals (our customers love it too!), we’re working
towards the bigger vision. Increasing access to in-home chefs can improve
health and drive economic advancement. Today, our platform helps busy, working
families eliminate the time burden of meal planning and preparation and
simultaneously helps culinary artists build more fulfilling and lucrative
careers. Tomorrow, our platform can help prevent disease, improve overall
health, and create culinary entrepreneurs. Cookonnect is a high growth, pre-
seed stage startup operating in Atlanta, GA. Our founder, Erica Tuggle, is a
Harvard Business School graduate with 13+ years experience in the Services and
Food & Beverage industry. Backed by Techstars and Slauson & Co, we are excited
about the path ahead as we build a rockstar team and scalable model. As we
continue to grow, we are looking for ambitious teammates that are passionate
about creating healthier food solutions and supporting the culinary community.
**Cookonnect Engineering**
Cookonnect’s current service area is Atlanta, GA. We have a no-code MVP built
on Bubble. We are using the no-code solution for cost-effective rapid
iteration today. We want to take our learnings from the no-code solution and
build out a full-stack platform. Our platform has a customer facing
application, a chef facing application, and internal tools to support
operations. We are looking for customer-focused engineers with startup
experience who are excited to build. We want people that will commit to
learning about our customers and chefs. Our early team will help us select
technologies and tools to better serve our customers.
They will be responsible for:
* Creating the next generation platform
* Synthesizing and applying learnings from our existing platform
* The migration from our existing platform
* Testing and continuous learning protocols
* New feature determination in collaboration with CEO
**Head of Engineering Role Description**
The Head of Engineering will report to the Founder and CEO of Cookonnect,
Erica Tuggle. This person will be responsible for analyzing, designing,
building, and testing existing and new systems to support the Cookonnect
vision. This person will be responsible for:
* Managing Agile methodologies (i.e. scrum/Kanban) to ensure continuous learning and optimization of the Cookonnect product
* Leading the testing and documentation of new features, ensuring clarity of information to inform recommendations and next steps
* Developing weekly and monthly company dashboards for tracking engineering KPIs and platform metrics
* Partnering with our vendors to test and develop new features on the existing platform and own the migration plan
* Setting the technical constraints for the next generation Cookonnect platform.
* Developing tech stack recommendations and product roadmap in coordination with leadership
* Leading the transition from the no-code solution to a full stack web framework, scoping roadmap items, meeting regular release deadlines, and managing technical communication to the CEO and investors
* Accurately projecting required resources for delivering product roadmap fully and on time
* Designing, creating, and building platform architecture with user insights, observability, cost structure, performance, and scalability in mind
* Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintained code
* Partnering with the CEO to create a tech-forward culture that thinks outside the box and delivers solutions that make a measurable difference
* Improving existing solutions and products to better enable realization of Cookonnect growth goals
* Developing and enforcing processes and standards to ensure product quality and consistency
**Who You Are**
The Head of Engineering should be described by friends and colleagues as
having the following qualities & skills:
* Strong Communicator: able to clearly communicate technical problems to a non-technical audience, with a tendency to over communicate
* Customer/User Centric: seeks and leverages user insights as a priority; is committed to delivering the best experience for the user
* Collaborative: enjoys working in small teams and believes in bringing in others to deliver the best solution the team can build
* Self-Starter: comfortably able to identify and act independently on the critical next steps to advance a project
* Accountable & Adaptable: delivers work on time and takes full responsibility for accuracy of deliverables; receives and actions feedback well
* Creative Problem Solver: approaches challenges with optimism and develops novel approaches to achieving the stated goal
* Strategic Thinker: able to consider multiple stakeholders and data sources, develop many solutions, and execute the ones that drive impact for the business
* Persistent: is committed to reaching a desired outcome and applies grit, creativity, and flexibility to achieving goals in the face of complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity
Cookonnect focuses on Food and Beverages, Marketplaces, and Food Tech. Their
company has offices in Atlanta. They have a small team that's between 1-10
employees.
You can view their website at <https://www.cookonnect.com/>
