Symphony | REMOTE | Full-time | Full-stack Mongo/Node/React (Next)
Symphony delivers ready-to-eat meals throughout Europe (think pesto pasta, chili con carne, veggie bowl) 100% custom-made to the user's taste and preferences.
Hardware side, we receive a recipe from the user, prepare and ship it (average price is 7€). Recipes are made out of a catalog of 500 ingredients (that will keep on growing over time). Software side, we provide a sort of Google Maps of the space of all possible recipes (one recipe = one location). Users browse the space by modifying recipes (adding/removing/resizing ingredients) and can plant flags by leaving a comment, suggesting a title, adding the recipe to a playlist, or simply ordering it and sharing their experience. Think of Symphony as a collaborative effort to explore all the most attention-worthy recipes (from mainstream to super niche). We also apply machine learning from [area on the map] to [property of interest] to model users' preferences and recipe properties (e.g. naming, style, geo and culturo influence, diet, …), which is then used to make recommendations, create enhancement tools (e.g. decrease carbs, apply a taste profile, substitute a given ingredient), cluster recipes, and broadly speaking, automate the process of discovery and annotation of the space.
We finished a beta-testing phase in Paris, and are looking to open to the whole of France, Belgium and Spain within 2 months. The bulk of the website is functional, but a lot remains. You will be its primary and lead maintainer. The work is 70% ReactJS, 30% API/NextJS/MongoDB/AWS-deployment. We exchange daily on what needs to be done with a combination of voice, instant messaging and issue tracking. Timezone difference should not be a problem as long as we manage to intersect a few hours a day. We will decide together what positions to hire next to complement the team. Starting salary ranges anywhere from $25k to $65k a year depending on relevant experience and cost of living. It is bound to increase significantly as the company grows, along with your position in it.
If interested, send an email at REDACTED_EMAIL with any relevant information, and we'll arrange a call.
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