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Salary: USD 168,000 - 253,000 / annual
Afresh is an AI platform for grocery that helps major retailers like Albertsons, Meijer, and Wakefern make smarter decisions across their enterprise. The company has achieved 70% revenue growth in 2025, scaled to 6 enterprise-grade solutions deployed across over 10% of the U.S. grocery market, and prevented over 200 million pounds of food waste last year.
You will join the Scanner Team as a Staff Backend Engineer to own the development of Afresh's next-generation, flagship AI grocery ordering product. This is a pivotal role where you will define the architectural roadmap for next-generation systems and tackle challenging engineering problems that directly enable business expansion.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead the design, buildout, and deployment of highly scalable and robust APIs and backend systems, making critical architectural decisions that shape the platform and product
- Work in a close-knit team with other engineers, a dedicated Designer, and Product Manager
- Partner with Product, Account Management, and peer engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions serving client needs
- Grow a product used daily in thousands of grocery stores across the country
- Build with best-in-class AI development tools and work alongside passionate coworkers who help engineers move faster and deliver higher-quality software
- Step into a mentorship role to guide junior engineers and contribute to team growth
- Understand complex systems and the intricate business domain with dependencies outside direct team ownership
Afresh was founded in 2017 to use AI to reduce food waste—the #1 solution to curb climate change. The company sits at the intersection of positive social impact, strong financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Investors include Al Gore's Just Climate, former Whole Foods CEO Walter Robb, and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors. Research has been published in top journals including ICML.
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Eagerness to thrive in a fast-paced, AI-native engineering organization that embraces new tools and continuously evolves how it builds software
- Proven ability to lead and drive projects through the entire development lifecycle, from conception to launch, with a high degree of autonomy
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to build alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Readiness to step into a mentorship role to guide junior engineers
- Curiosity about complex systems and desire to understand the intricate business domain
