Hotplate
Online ordering platform for independent chefs and bakers.
Founding Engineer
About the role
About the role
Apply and view more info on Hotplate's Jobs page
We are looking for an experienced, backend-leaning, customer-focused Engineer to join our team. We need someone who has a solid understanding of our tech stack, can effectively model and manage relational databases, is excited to push themselves to solve problems across the entire codebase, and who is also capable of, and interested in, being a generalist.
We encourage you to apply if you're interested in full-stack product development, keen on constantly pushing your boundaries, interested in working in the open, scrappy environment of an early stage startup, and get satisfaction from making complex problems feel simple to the end user.
Upcoming technical or product challenges you could work on include:
- Building up our infrastructure to deal with our spiky traffic
- Upgrading our analytics platform to enable chefs to make better decisions
- Tools for collaboration amongst chefs
- Upgrading our test suite to improve our peace of mind
- Improving our ci/cd pipelines
- Building & revamping product (invoicing, subscriptions, reworking the most used parts of Hotplate)
Our work covers a lot of ground: Invoicing, subscriptions, collaborations, messaging, and managing 10,000% load spikes are just a few things we are working on. We are trying to popularize a new way of selling food, and the road there will be filled with a lot of disparate and interesting problems and ideas.
Hotplate is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply
Responsibilities
- Help ideate, design, and implement new features and infrastructure
- Collaborate with all team members to bring your and their ideas to life
- Work across job functions to create a seamless, intuitive, and customer-friendly product
- Engage directly with chefs and users to gather feedback and provide support
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in an engineering role
- Does well in a small team environment
- Able to communicate effectively and honestly to all team members
- Seeks to challenge themselves in new projects
- Proficiency with React, Typescript, and NextJs
- Deep knowledge of SQL modeling and managing relational databases
- Experience with public cloud infrastructure
- A knack for solving complex problems with simple, elegant solutions
- Strong interest in full-stack product development
Bonus Points
- Previous experience founding a startup, or working at an early stage startup
- Interest in UX and product design
- Empathy towards chefs and the problems small business owners face
Compensation & Benefits
- Stock options that reflect your impact as a founding employee
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Extremely flexible vacations
- Paid for hardware setup to fit your preferences
- Plenty of optional company hangouts around SF
- Free food from Hotplate chefs and bakers
Apply
If you are interested in the problems we solve and the people we work for here at Hotplate, we would love to hear from you.
About Hotplate
Hotplate is transforming the food industry by empowering chefs to start and run their own businesses online. The traditional food business model is broken, expensive, and low-margin. During the pandemic, many chefs found a more profitable way to sell food through Instagram via preorder and pickup. However, there was no platform to support this unique sales model—until Hotplate.
We provide chefs with tailor-built websites to drop and sell food via preorder, streamlining storefront and backend operations. With Hotplate, chefs can manage thousands of orders and customers, helping some achieve monthly sales of over $100k entirely on their own.
If you're passionate about improving the diversity and accessibility of food and eager to disrupt an industry that has remained mostly unchanged for years, we would love to have you at Hotplate.
