Software Engineer

About Zucca:

At Zucca, we are revolutionizing the Food & Beverage (F&B) CPG commercialization process by helping brands do so faster and smarter. Zucca is a generative AI platform designed specifically for F&B brands and manufacturers. Zucca’s technology helps scope, develop, and launch new products effortlessly, with AI that accelerates ideation, reduces scoping time by 90% and proactively keeps projects on track with fewer surprises.

• Ideate new concepts in under an hour 
• Scope new projects 10x faster
• Keep costs in check with continuous estimates
• Accelerate product development, avoiding pitfalls and delays
• Integrate existing documents & briefs to keep projects on scope and flag surprises

As an engineer at Zucca, you’ll…

• Design, develop, build, test, and improve the Zucca app
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Design and implement new consumer-facing features for Zucca app
• Write client-side code for web applications, and create easy-to-use, high-volume production applications and prototypes.
• Build and maintain a backend system to support Zucca

This job might be for you if you have…

• Innate curiosity of generative AI and the ability and desire to learn new technologies and tools. Preferably, you have some experience in the tools and technologies we use or other related experience that will speed your acclimation to our code.
• Leadership qualities. As a senior engineer on our team, you will help us make important architectural decisions. You will also have a big impact on hiring decisions for our team, as well as helping grow junior engineers or interns we may hire in the future.
• The outlook of a generalist. You are willing and excited to work on all parts of the site. We have a lot of user-facing features with UI to deliver, as well as plenty of backend work. We will have a high bar for UI polish, particularly in our mobile applications.
• The ability to work independently. Your communication skills are complemented by your ability to run with a task and make progress independently, with appropriate check-ins.
• A pragmatic attitude. Not everything we build will be built to perfection. We want to build quality software, but our first goal is to build a sustainable business. We have to balance our efforts appropriately.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years experience with web development and backend development
• Experiences with React/NodeJS/AWS
• Experiences with Generative AI development and prompt engineering

We are an equal opportunity employer and highly value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.