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Growth Kitchen

First Senior / Lead Product Engineer (series A)

London Full-Time 43200 - 72000 £ / year (est.) No home office possible

At a Glance

Tasks: Lead the development of innovative data solutions and AI applications in a fast-paced startup.
Company: Growth Kitchen is revolutionising food delivery, making top restaurants accessible and affordable everywhere.
Benefits: Enjoy significant stock options, a generous salary, pension scheme, and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
Why this job: Shape the future of food tech while enjoying autonomy and opportunities for rapid career growth.
Qualifications: Strong background in data engineering, architecture, and a passion for solving real-world food system issues.
Other info: Join a small, dynamic team with a mission to innovate and scale in the food industry.

The predicted salary is between 43200 - 72000 £ per year.

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Highlights: Senior / Lead Engineer, deep involvement in product (we don\’t have PMs), work directly with the founders of a series A food tech company, significant stock options, build and manage a world class engineering team, full-autonomy on technical roadmap, best ideas win: no politics, just build, leverage AI across all areas of the company.
About Growth Kitchen
Eating in 2025 is like eating in 1955. We shop for ingredients, cook and waste lots of ingredients in the process. Food delivery could be 10x more convenient (press a button, get food), however, ordering is too expensive and the best restaurants are often not available where we live. Ordering is a treat – not an everyday, personalised commodity. Growth Kitchen is on a mission to change that. We want the best restaurants to be available everywhere and to become as cheap as McDonald\’s through scale and automation.
Our platform enables kitchen operators (e.g. Hilton Hotel) to sell well-known restaurant brands, such as The Athenian or Coqfighter from their existing kitchens. We\’re scaling fast (UK → international soon) and bottlenecked by automation. We have more customer demand than we can handle with our current technology.
About Engineering At Growth Kitchen
The team : Although we\’ve raised significant investments, we\’re 30 people and we\’re a profitable business, our engineering team still young and small. You will be joining a team of three (including you). One Junior Engineer and one incredible AI / Data Science Engineer. As our first Senior / Lead Engineer, you will be an integral part of the management team, working side by side with the founders and our AI / Data Science Engineer. You will have full autonomy to build the team as you see fit, support our product roadmap and define our technical roadmap. We will allocate all the resources you need to building the team and staying at the forefront of technological innovation in the food space.
The role : You\’ll have the opportunity to build beyond the limitations typically found in larger firms, directly shaping our data infrastructure, analytics capabilities, and cutting-edge AI solutions from the ground up. You will take lots of real world manual workflows that we do to quality control kitchens and put them on autopilot as fast as possible, staying at the forefront of AI. This is an exceptional opportunity for learning and career growth, allowing you to develop a diverse skillset while making meaningful contributions in an environment that values innovation and fresh perspectives. You will remain hands on with code (70-80% of your time).
We are offering significant stock options in a profitable, fast growing company.
Stack
TypeScript

Node.js
React
NestJS
Tailwind
Postgres

Projects

Own & evolve our data ingestion engine (Deliveroo/Uber/JustEat and more)
Build self-serve dashboards & web app for kitchens & food brands
Get involved in greenfield projects as we drive our roadmap forward. These include, but are not limited to:

AI food quality control (models + Mechanical Turk)
AI & Gamified kitchen management
Anomaly detection
Direct to consumer sales
Further tools / apps for quality control data collection (cameras, mystery diner, etc.)

Requirements

Software engineer who is strong on data engineering and integrations
Architect profile: ability to define and build stable underlying architecture that scale
Desire to get involved with product, drive our roadmap and build, build, build
Can leverage AI-native tools / Cursor as superpower
Fast, curious, hands-on, enjoys hackathons and hungry to scale real-world problems
Deep passion for fixing our food system, loves restaurants

Benefits

An environment where you can build without blockers or politics
Work on business critical things only
Be part of the management team of one of the fastest growing food tech companies
Generous salary
Significant stock options
Pension Scheme
ClassPass
25 days of holiday + Bank Holidays

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Other
Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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