Graduate Software Engineer

Growth Kitchen; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing Series A food tech company seeks a junior engineer to work on innovative AI-powered products. You'll join a small, dynamic team responsible for building impactful solutions in a supportive environment, while receiving mentorship and opportunities to learn quickly. If you're passionate about technology and improving the food system, this position offers an exceptional chance for growth.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary & stock options

Pension Scheme

ClassPass

25 days of holiday + Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Experience with React and TypeScript, some backend experience is preferred.
• Eager to work on meaningful, real-world problems.
• Comfortable learning new parts of the stack over time.

Responsibilities

• Build and shape data infrastructure and AI solutions.
• Automate quality control processes for kitchens.
• Directly contribute to real-world projects and impact.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Curiosity

AI tools

Education

Relevant studies

Job description

Highlights

You'll work directly with senior engineers and the founders of a fast-growing Series A food tech company, building real-world AI-powered products that solve critical problems for restaurants and kitchens. This role comes with ownership of projects, close mentorship, and the chance to grow fast as an engineer. We care about learning and delivering — there’s no corporate politics or endless meetings here, just an intense focus on building, learning, and shipping. You'll also learn how to use AI-native tools like Cursor and Claude Code to code faster and smarter than humanly possible. If you graduated recently or about to graduate and want to be challenged, learn rapidly, and help fix the broken food system, this is the place for you.

About Growth Kitchen

Eating in 2025 is like eating in 1955. We shop for ingredients, cook and waste lots of ingredients in the process. Food delivery could be 10x more convenient (press a button, get food), however, ordering is too expensive and the best restaurants are often not available where we live. Ordering is a treat - not an everyday, personalised commodity. 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. We're scaling fast (UK → international soon) and bottlenecked by automation. We have more customer demand than we can handle with our current technology.

About Engineering at Growth Kitchen

Although we've raised significant investments, we're 30 people and we're a profitable business, our engineering team still young and small. You will be joining a team of three (including you). 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.

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

• Relevant studies, regular participation in hackathons
• Experience with React and TypeScript, and some backend experience (Node.js preferred)
• Comfortable learning new parts of the stack over time, including APIs, databases, and integrations
• Curious and hands-on: you enjoy experimenting with AI-native tools like Cursor and Claude Code to boost your productivity
• Fast-moving and proactive — you don’t wait for someone to hand you tickets
• Eager to work on meaningful, real-world problems and see your work in the hands of customers quickly
• Passionate about fixing the food system and making great restaurants more accessible to everyone
• Thrive in a small team where you can learn fast, take ownership, and make an impact

• An environment where you can build without blockers or politics
• Work on business critical things only
• Competitive starting salary & stock options
• Pension Scheme
• ClassPass
• 25 days of holiday + Bank Holidays