Sprig - San Francisco, CA
Senior Mobile (iOS) Engineer
Sprig aims to bring personal chef-style service to the people. As soon as you're hungry, you can order a locally-sourced, well-balanced, awesome dinner directly from your smartphone. Meals cost between $10-15 and are delivered to your door in about 20 minutes. We're well-funded and driving towards an SF launch in late October.
To that end, we’re looking for a senior engineer to help us build an amazing experience for Sprig customers. You’ll be the first engineering hire outside of the co-founders, so this is a great opportunity to help define our engineering culture and product focus.
Right away you’ll be working on:
- Our customer facing iPhone app (aka our "front of the house")
- Mobile apps for our servers, helping them efficiently whisk meals from kitchen to table
- Our delivery dispatch algorithm, the key to getting food in people's hands as fast as possible
In the future you might be working on:
- Making our app ordering experience even better
- Simulating delivery routing optimizations so we can tune our dispatch
- Scaling the backend to launch new cities
Our stack includes:
- iOS, Rails, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Heroku, AWS
You should have:
- Significant iOS experience, having shipped at least one app
- Some Rails or other backend experience
- Previous startup experience
- Passion for food! You’re joining our engineering team, but we are first and foremost a food company
- A sense of humor, and/or a mild love of accidental food startup puns (too many cooks in the kitchen, let the idea simmer, put it on the back burner...list goes on)
If this whets your appetite, send an email to REDACTED_EMAIL. Let us know why you're interested in Sprig and shoot us any relevant links (github, linkedin, blogs, roomba you rigged up to open doors for guests, whatever).
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