Job Description

WHAT WE DO At Shef, we are building a homemade food marketplace. We believe in
providing the shefs in our community (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home
parents, retirees and out-of-work restaurant chefs) the opportunity to make a
meaningful income by doing what they love! We also believe that every person
should have access to a wholesome, home-cooked meal at an affordable price.
Building a community devoted to economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity
-- that's why we started Shef. We are committed to reimagining home cooking
around the country to empower everyone to make meaningful incomes by feeding
their neighbor and have raised over $100m from investors including Andreessen
Horowitz, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and M13, as well as founders and
executives from Instacart, TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and
Yelp. We have a ton of exciting work ahead of us and are excited to have you
join us! As a senior software engineer you will be responsible for building
delightful experiences for consumers and chefs across the country. You will
optimize the shopping experience for our consumers and build out micro-
entrepreneurship tools for our shefs to run their own businesses. If we
succeed, you will have fundamentally changed how people purchase food and the
variety of healthy, affordable, and authentic food that they have access to.
This role reports directly to the company’s engineering leader and provides a
unique opportunity to significantly impact an exciting consumer product. This
is a hybrid job located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Local candidates only.
Responsibilities Build new features that delight our consumers and help our
Shefs grow their own businesses Run at problems with a strong bias for
throughput and execution Monitor, analyze, and iterate on features Use
analytics to identify areas of impact and new product ideas Think like a
Product Manager - Discovering insights, opportunities, and requirements for
new features Qualifications 3+ years of relevant work experience Experience
with React, Typescript and Node Highly motivated Self-starter who is smart,
driven, and hardworking Pre-seed through Series C experience; must be flexible
and strategic enough to understand the tradeoffs between time, money and
quality Very interested in ownership and product with a desire to own a part
of the product from end to end - looking at data, coming up with ideas,
spec'ing and launching new products At Shef, we are building a platform that
celebrates difference and cultural inclusivity by providing equitable
opportunities for economic empowerment and by reimagining food making and
sharing in our 21st century world. Our employee, shef, and customer
communities represent a wide, beautiful cross-section of individuals from
diverse cultures, ethnicities, races, and walks of life. Shef is an equal
opportunity employer. We strive to build a team that reflects the communities
we serve, and a workplace that nurtures and empowers unique identities and
experiences. We are committed to advancing equity in a tech industry that has
often fallen short. We strongly encourage applications from BIPOC (Black;
Indigenous; People of Color), women, LGBTQ+, and other individuals who are
underrepresented in the industry, across color, religion, race, ethnic and
national origin, physical ability, gender and sexual identity. For individuals
who require an accommodation during the interview process, please advise your
company contact. Note : Please protect yourself from job scams! Do not respond
to fake employment offers for Shef from third-parties. Shef will never ask for
money or fees at any point during the interview process ; if you are being
asked to send money as part of your interaction do not send money. Shef does
not ask applicants to communicate through Telegram, Skype or WhatsApp. If you
are being asked to download a third party app to communicate for a job
interview, do not download. Shef posts all legitimate job openings on our jobs
page. You may come across job postings on various job boards. Any legitimate
role on a third party site will also be posted on our careers page. Please
verify a role exists or apply directly at https://jobs.gem.com/shef-com.