Software Engineer, AI-Driven Platform for Restaurants

Tarro; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Tarro is seeking a Software Engineer to join our platform team, enabling restaurants to handle customer phone calls and scale operations. You will contribute to AI-enabled order taking, delivery enablement, online ordering, and POS systems, with a focus on building scalable infrastructure and empowering small businesses. You will work across teams and occasionally travel to client sites to ensure solutions meet real-world needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Fluency in TypeScript, Rust, Java, or related technology and are passionate about using AI to accelerate your work.
• Strong product sense and intuition.
• Proven technical leadership in shipping great products, hands-on engineering, and leading critical projects to production.
• Passion for building great user experiences and achieving real-world impact.

Responsibilities

• Autonomous Problem Solving: Work with minimal oversight, applying critical thinking and independent judgment to identify issues and course-correct solutions in real-time.
• Full-Cycle Ownership: Act as both product manager and engineer to identify, build, and deploy solutions that achieve measurable business outcomes.
• End-to-End Problem Solving: Own initiatives from initial inception through development, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.
• Cross-Functional Vertical Expansion: Partner with engineers, designers, PMs, and operation teams to develop features that drive Tarro’s expansion into new market verticals.
• AI Orchestration: Orchestrate multiple AI agents to build solutions in a very short amount of time.
• AI Enablement: Build infrastructure and train non-technical teams to utilize AI tools effectively.
• Systems Architecture & Scaling: Establish engineering processes and systems to scale the codebase and accelerate product velocity.
• Data-Driven Growth: Apply metrics and creative thinking to solve scaling challenges and support strategic platform growth.
• Product Lifecycle Participation: Remain an active, curious participant in every stage of development, including dogfooding internal tools to provide critical feedback.
• Client-First Research: Travel to client sites and regional offices to gain a firsthand understanding of customer problems and ensure solution effectiveness.
• Global Team Collaboration: Manage regular communication with teams in Asia, requiring availability outside of typical US business hours.
• High-Growth Commitment: Adapt to the demands of a scaling business with extended hours and occasional weekend work as projects require.

Skills

5+ years experience

TypeScript

Rust

Java

Job description

Tarro is seeking a Software Engineer to join our platform team, enabling restaurants to handle customer phone calls and scale operations. You will contribute to AI-enabled order taking, delivery enablement, online ordering, and POS systems, with a focus on building scalable infrastructure and empowering small businesses. You will work across teams and occasionally travel to client sites to ensure solutions meet real-world needs.