Do you use the internet? Do you eat food? If so, you know a lot about our product already! Come join our product team at RelayFoods / Door to Door Organics, and help build the future of groceries. Between our two brands, we aremaking it simple for families to eat good food in 18states.
As part of the product team, you’ll be an integral part of every aspect of our business, from talking to and building features for our great customers to building internal apps and processes for our marketing, operations, and merchandising departments. We are a remote team with a great culture, and are all passionate about building the absolute best grocery experience possible.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for building a set of services that fuels our brand new mobile app (in TestFlight beta testing now). These services are driving a heavily personalized and dynamic meal planning and grocery shopping customer experience, taking into account each customer’s diet, budget, and preferences, as well as product and dish unit and serving sizes. We’ve chosen F# to build these services because we needed a language that combined the expressibility of a functional-first language, with the reliability of a statically typed language.
We are a small, productive team that builds things iteratively because we believe that the right answer comes from a mix of design and discovery. To that end, we have a team charter that outlines our beliefs (e.g. “Don’t be a jerk”), but we’re neither dogmatic, nor trend-seeking – we’re simply out to build the best product for customers that we possibly can. Sometimes that calls for “boring” tech, and sometimes that calls for “bleeding edge” tech. Some of those more interesting technology concepts are: event sourcing/CQRS driven services, AWS Lambda event-driven workers, and integrated monitoring/chat-ops.
For this to be the right role for you, you should have much experience with and feel comfortable architecting well-thought out and maintainable systems in a fast paced, iterative environment. And while we love helping folks learn on the job, this role in particular requires that you have a significant amount of real world experience with F#, or a similar functional language/toolset.
Responsibilities
Support and enhance our existing F# api services, and build new ones as necessary
Lead efforts to significantly increase throughput and reliability of our systems
Jump in and contribute to other areas of the stack when necessary (mostly nodejs, some C#)
Research, experiment with, and report on technologies and tools to achieve our goals
Location
We have always been a remote team, and as such, have created processes and tools that allow us to do so in fairly frictionless way. I think you’ll find that our team is more tight knit than most in-person teams you’ll meet. That said, we are not currently setup to handle far flung employees (think ‘other side of the globe’). We have 2 headquarters, 1 in Charlottesville VA and 1 in Louisville, CO.
How to Apply
We are a small team and handle our recruiting ourselves, so please don’t submit a posting without a cover letter with a paragraph or two on why this job seems particularly interesting to you, and why you’re particularly well suited to take it. Bonus points for links to projects, and evidence of your passion for tech and/or food. Extra bonus points for telling us what your favorite dessert is – that way, we’ll know you’re not a robot, unless you’re some sort of dessert testing robot, which would actually be pretty awesome, too.
