Senior Product Engineer

Growth Kitchen; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing startup in the food industry is seeking a senior/lead product engineer to shape its data infrastructure and AI solutions. This role offers career development while contributing to innovative projects like AI kitchen management and performance marketing optimization. Competitive salary, stock options, and a supportive work environment await the ideal candidate.

Benefits

Generous salary

Stock options

Pension scheme

25 days of holiday + bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and React required.
• Fast, curious, hands-on personality preferred.
• Enjoy hackathons and scaling systems.

Responsibilities

• Build data infrastructure and analytics capabilities from scratch.
• Own and evolve data ingestion engine.
• Develop AI food quality control models.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

React

NestJS

Postgres

Job description

Growth Kitchen is on a mission to make eating great food the norm. 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 are a profitable business, we're still a young and small team. We're scaling quickly (UK → international soon) and are bottlenecked by automation. We have more customer demand than our current technology can handle.

As our first senior/lead product engineer, you will be a key part of our rapidly growing startup. You will 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. This role offers an exceptional opportunity for learning and career development, 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

Projects include:

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

Ideal candidate traits:

• Fast, curious, hands-on
• Hungry to scale real-world systems
• Enjoys hackathons
• Likes food

Benefits:

• Generous salary
• Stock options
• Pension scheme
• 25 days of holiday + bank holidays