Software Engineer
Tarro
Software Engineer
Tarro
Builds ordering software for independent restaurants
Tarro is building the future of restaurant infrastructure. The U.S. restaurant industry is a trillion-dollar market, but it remains relatively underserved by technology. Running a restaurant comes with a never-ending list of operational work, and many owners spend most of their day on what they have to do rather than what they want to do. We envision a future where they can delegate that work to Tarro and focus on what they love doing.
Restaurant owners want more orders, better margins, and fewer operational headaches. Giving them software is only part of the answer. Our ecosystem brings phone ordering, online ordering, delivery, point of sale, payments, and marketing into one vertically integrated operation. We combine software, AI, and human operations so independent restaurants can hand that work to us end to end.
Using Tarro should feel like having experienced operators, engineers, and marketers working for your restaurant. Our job is to turn that expertise into services owners can rely on, without having to build those teams themselves.
Thousands of restaurants have entrusted Tarro with their success. Since 2020, we’ve processed close to $3 billion in restaurant orders, helped those restaurants serve more than 20 million consumers, and taken an estimated 3 million hours of work off their teams’ hands. And we’re still early in our journey.
We’re a lean team with top talent from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Tesla, Square, Stripe, Shopify, and Citadel. We’re scrappy builders who love to roll up our sleeves and get into the details of improving a restaurant’s operations. Many of us regularly work in restaurants to experience firsthand what our users deal with.
We move quickly, keep process light, and expect high standards of craft. Our leaders stay hands-on, and our teams have the autonomy to make decisions and the responsibility to see them through.
At Tarro, product judgment and technical execution belong together. You’ll be trusted to understand the restaurant’s problem, decide how to solve it, and carry the solution through to something people use every day. If you want to build products restaurant owners depend on, we’d love to work with you.
You care as much about user impact as you do about technical craft. You’re comfortable wearing multiple hats and owning problems end to end. You take initiative, exercise good judgment, and thrive with autonomy. You want to help fundamentally change how restaurants operate.
Autonomous Problem Solving: Work with minimal oversight, applying critical thinking and independent judgment to identify issues and course-correct solutions in real-time.
Full-Cycle Ownership: Act as both product manager and engineer to identify, build, and deploy solutions that achieve measurable business outcomes.
End-to-End Problem Solving: Own initiatives from initial inception through development, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.
Cross-Functional Vertical Expansion: Partner with engineers, designers, PMs, and operation teams to develop features that drive Tarro’s expansion into new market verticals.
AI Orchestration: Orchestrate multiple AI agents to build solutions in a very short amount of time
AI Enablement: Build infrastructure and train non-technical teams to utilize AI tools effectively.
Systems Architecture & Scaling: Establish engineering processes and systems to scale the codebase and accelerate product velocity.
Data-Driven Growth: Apply metrics and creative thinking to solve scaling challenges and support strategic platform growth.
Product Lifecycle Participation: Remain an active, curious participant in every stage of development, including "dogfooding" internal tools to provide critical feedback.
Client-First Research: Travel to client sites and regional offices to gain a firsthand understanding of customer problems and ensure solution effectiveness.
Global Team Collaboration: Manage regular communication with teams in Asia, requiring availability outside of typical US business hours.
High-Growth Commitment: Adapt to the demands of a scaling business with extended hours and occasional weekend work as projects require.
You will be operating in a dynamic, fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that offers continuous learning opportunities.
You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
You have fluency in TypeScript, Rust, Java, or related technology and are passionate about using AI to accelerate your work
You have a strong product sense and intuition
You have proven technical leadership in shipping great products, hands-on engineering, and leading critical projects to production
You have passion for building great user experiences and achieving real-world impact
You have a passion for the restaurant industry or restaurant technology
You have experience writing code that meets accessibility standards and best practices
You have experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing
You have experience building products from 0 to 1 in an unstructured environment
You have a roll up your sleeves mentality with current or prior experience working in a fast paced, collaborative, highly ambiguous environment frequently wearing more than one hat.
Our tech stack: Rust, React, Typescript, AWS.
Tarro builds software and runs services for independent restaurants that need to handle customer orders without pulling staff away from the kitchen. Its phone ordering system combines human agents with AI to take orders, answer questions and manage changes, then sends the details to the restaurant for preparation. The company also coordinates delivery and runs text message marketing campaigns, giving owners a connected way to manage demand and bring customers back. Restaurants pay for the orders processed through the phone service, with plans tailored to their operating needs. Its operating roots date to 2012, and Tarro is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.
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