Product/Frontend Engineer

About Guac

Guac uses machine learning to do demand forecasting for grocers. We predict exactly how much of each product grocers will sell, on each day, at each of their stores.

We’re currently working with large supermarket chains around the world, and our mission is to put an end to the millions of tons of food that goes to waste every single day due to bad inventory planning.

We’re excited to make a huge impact in what is still a highly untapped space, and we’re looking for a product engineer to join us on the journey!

About the role

We are looking for a frontend developer with experience in design to join our team.

This person will be instrumental in designing, prototyping, and developing our web and potentially mobile products. These are the products our customers’ store managers and employees use to interact with our forecasts every day.

Your primary responsibility is having ownership over the development and maintenance of our web/mobile apps using TypeScript, React, and Next.js. Specifically, you’ll be responsible for:

1. Designing thoughtful UI that communicates our forecasts and recommendations to be easily actionable by store-level employees.
2. Talk directly to customers to learn about what they need, and then translate that into UX decisions and product features. You’d also be data-driven — implementing analytics and tests to shape your decisions.
3. Developing and deploying new features that meet the rigorous standards of our enterprise customers.
4. A small amount of backend related work to support your work on frontend. This might, for example, involve adapting our existing pipelines to transform data for the frontend.

About you

Must have:

1. You have at least 2 years of post-grad experience in frontend web development. This at least includes TypeScript and ReactJS, Next.js. Bonus for any of: React Native, Tailwind, native mobile (Swift or Kotlin), security/auth protocols.
2. You have experience in UI/UX design. This doesn’t need to be formal work experience, but some example Figma (or equivalent) work would be desirable, since part of this job will require mocking up product designs from scratch.

Nice to have:

1. Some full stack awareness and some Python experience. Our backend is built in Python, and there will be times when it will be fastest for you to modify or spin up small endpoints to serve your frontend work.
2. Experience developing enterprise-grade software, whether that be interfacing with enterprise customers, designing around large enterprise requirements, or coding with security and stability in mind.
3. Experience with product management tasks, like dealing with customers directly (both for product interviews and feedback reporting), or managing product releases cycles.

Why work with us

1. Intellectually challenging problems: the everyday problems you’ll be working on require a lot of thinking and creativity. If you derive a lot of fulfillment from solving hard problems, you’ll get that with us. You also won’t be pigeon-holed into one problem, product, or technology.
2. Have a real-world impact: the grocery industry is enormous (in US, it accounts for ~4% of GDP), and bad demand forecasting is the most expensive problem in the industry — and millions of tons of food are thrown out each year. The better our products are for store employees, the higher the ordering compliance is with our hyper-accurate forecasts, which ultimately means less food waste.
3. Be surrounded by an awesome team: we’re 100% in person and deeply value having a team that cares about solving interesting problems and has fun working.
4. Meet interesting customers: while most of the job will be dev-based, we like to spend time with our customers to understand their problems face-to-face. You’ll be able to come along for the ride and see the on-the-ground operations of the grocery industry.