Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we’ve helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you’ll join us!

The Product Engineering team at Afresh is responsible for building out the suite of products that our customers use every day, whether it’s an individual produce manager looking to order their store’s groceries for the day, corporate supervisors looking to view individual store performance, and everything in between. Grocers rely on these solutions within Afresh’s Fresh Operating System to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their workflows, all contributing to our goal of reducing food waste. You will be playing a key role in building out these solutions for our customers. Our team and products are growing at a rapid pace, which means that there will be plenty of opportunities for ownership and making your impact felt. Some of your responsibilities will include:

Directly impact our mission of reducing fresh food waste by working on products that enable grocers to optimize fresh food operations.
Collaborate closely with our product and design teams to build rich and engaging user experiences.
Drive complex, cross-functional feature development in collaboration with backend, data, and machine learning engineering teams.
Design and build reusable mobile interfaces and clean schema designs to support backend-driven application logic.
Evolve our mobile architecture and platform, integrate new technologies, and establish engineering best practices.
Work with other engineering teams to drive improvements in process, practice, and positive engineering culture so we all grow and mature together.

Skills and Experience

Primary responsibilities will be mobile development on our native iOS application. However, we have a strong preference for generalists who can learn and contribute to the full stack and across mobile platforms, as needed.

The following represents attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
6+ years of experience with mobile app development
- iOS (Swift) required
- Android and/or React Native a big plus
Openness and flexibility to work across mobile platforms (iOS & Android) and API development
Proven track record of shipping high-quality mobile apps
Strong understanding of mobile architecture and client/server design patterns
Experience acting as a tech lead on complex cross-functional projects
Collaborative attitude while also being highly self-directed
System-level problem-solving and excitement to tackle hard problems
Enjoy working in a fast-paced, startup environment

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About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we’re helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.

Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we’ve raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.

Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.

Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference.

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