Job Description

WHAT WE DO
At Shef, we are building a homemade food marketplace. We believe in providing
the shefs in our community (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents,
retirees and out-of-work restaurant chefs) the opportunity to make a
meaningful income by doing what they love! We also believe that every person
should have access to a wholesome, home-cooked meal at an affordable price.
Building a community devoted to economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity
-- that's why we started Shef.

We are committed to reimagining home cooking around the country to empower
everyone to make meaningful incomes by feeding their neighbor and have raised
over $100m from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Craft
Ventures, and M13, as well as founders and executives from Instacart,
TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and Yelp. We have a ton of
exciting work ahead of us and are excited to have you join us!

ROLE
As a senior software engineer in this hybrid position, at Shef you will be
responsible for building delightful experiences for consumers and chefs across
the country. You will optimize the shopping experience for our consumers, and
build out micro-entrepreneurship tools for our shefs to run their own
businesses. If we succeed, you will have fundamentally changed how people
purchase food and the variety of healthy, affordable, and authentic food that
they have access to.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Think like a Product Manager - Discovering insights, opportunities, and requirements for new features
* Build new features that delight our consumers and help our Shefs grow their own businesses
* Own your code
* Monitor, analyze, and iterate on features
* You will be a key team member, helping to build out our consumer and Shef facing websites
* Use analytics to identify areas of impact and new product ideas
* Report directly to the Head of Engineering

QUALIFICATIONS

* 4+ years of relevant work experience
* Experience with React
* Experience with Typescript

PREFERRED

* Experience with GraphQL + PostgreSQL
* Very interested in ownership and product
* Highly motivated
* Self-starter who is smart, driven, and hardworking
* Excited about Shef's mission of unlocking the home-cooked food industry
* Desire to own a part of the product from end to end - looking at data, coming up with ideas, spec'ing and launching new products

Shef is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to build a team that reflects
the communities we serve, and a workplace that nurtures and empowers unique
identities and experiences. We are committed to advancing equity in a tech
industry that has often fallen short. We strongly encourage applications from
BIPOC (Black; Indigenous; People of Color), women, LGBTQ+, and other
individuals who are underrepresented in the industry, across color, religion,
race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, gender and sexual
identity.

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will also be posted on our careers page. Please verify a role exists or apply
directly at <https://jobs.lever.co/shef>.
If you come across any of the situations above, please report them to
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
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