First Senior / Lead Product Engineer (series A)

Growth Kitchen; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing startup in London seeks its first senior/lead product engineer to shape data infrastructure and AI solutions. This role offers autonomy to build a team, work on innovative projects in food technology, and includes significant stock options. Ideal for driven individuals eager to tackle real-world problems in the food industry.

Benefits

Generous salary

Significant stock options

Pension Scheme

ClassPass

25 days of holiday + Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data engineering and integrations.
• Ability to define and build stable underlying architecture that scales.
• Fast, curious, hands-on; enjoys hackathons.

Responsibilities

• Own & evolve the data ingestion engine.
• Build self-serve dashboards for kitchens & food brands.
• Lead AI projects like food quality control.

Skills

Data engineering

Integrations

AI tools

Architectural design

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

NestJS

Postgres

Job description

Eating in 2025 is like eating in 1955. We shop for ingredients, cook and waste lots of ingredients in the process. Food delivery is significantly better, however, ordering is too expensive and the best restaurants are often not available where we live. Ordering is a treat - not an everyday, personalised commidity. Growth Kitchen is on a mission to change that. We want the best restaurants to be available everywhere and to become as cheap as McDonald's through scale and automation.

Our platform enables kitchen operators (e.g. Hilton Hotel) to sell well-known restaurant brands, such as The Athenian or Coqfighter from their existing kitchens. Although we've raised significant investments and we're a profitable business, we're still a young and small team. We're scaling fast (UK → international soon) and bottlenecked by automation. We have more customer demand than we can handle with our current technology.

As ourfirst senior/lead product engineer,you will be an integral part of our rapidly growing startup. You'll have the opportunity to build beyond the limitations typically found in larger firms, directly shaping our data infrastructure, analytics capabilities, and cutting-edge AI solutions from the ground up. You will take lots of real world manual workflows that we do to quality control kitchens and put them on autopilot as fast as possible, staying at the forefront of AI. This is an exceptional opportunity for learning and career growth, allowing you to develop a diverse skillset while making meaningful contributions in an environment that values innovation and fresh perspectives.

You will have full autonomy to build the team as you see fit, support our product roadmap and define our technical roadmap. We will allocate all the resources you need to building the team and staying at the forefront of technological innovation in the food space.We are offering significant stock options.

Stack
TypeScript · Node.js · React · NestJS · Tailwind · Postgres

Projects

• Own & evolve our data ingestion engine (Deliveroo/Uber/JustEat)
• Build self-serve dashboards for kitchens & food brands
• Greenfield: AI food quality control (models + Mechanical Turk)
• Greenfield: AI & Gamified kitchen management
• Greenfield: Anomaly detection
• Greenfield: Performance marketing optimisation (multi-armed bandits)

• Software engineer who is strong on data engineering and integrations
• Architect profile: ability to define and build stable underlying architecture that scale
• Can leverage AI-native tools / Cursor as superpower
• Fast, curious, hands-on, enjoys hackathons and hungry to scale real-world problems
• Deep passion for fixing our food system

• Generous salary
• Significant stock options
• Pension Scheme
• ClassPass
• 25 days of holiday + Bank Holidays