Overview

Zesty is seeking a talented Backend Engineer to work either out of our SF office or remotely*!

Zesty empowers companies to be healthier and more productive by serving healthy, delicious meals from the best local restaurants. We believe that caring for the health of its employees is a top priority for all good companies and we want to make this as easy as possible! We’re supported in this goal by some of Silicon Valley’s top investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, SV Angel and Y Combinator.

As part of Zesty’s engineering team you will help the company in this mission.

Every day, Zesty has to figure out exactly the right set of meals to order for each company, balancing variety, cost, health, dietary restrictions, and automatically learning from individual employee feedback. Then, we need to get thousands of meals from a distributed network of restaurants to hundreds of startups, all before lunch-time, using crowd-sourced transportation. This is a massive logistics and constraint satisfaction problem and we’re building deep technology that will let us do it better than anyone.

If you’re interested in building the kind of back-end systems that power companies like Uber, Zesty is a way to get in on the very ground floor of an engineering team with similar challenges. As a backend engineer, you’ll be designing, building and maintaining the systems that drive our business!

Responsibilities

  • Work within a small team to develop, optimize and maintain our applications across multiple platforms.
  • Be heavily involved in product, system architecture and technical strategy.
  • Direct and develop strong development practices.
  • Have the opportunity to solve hard problems better than they’ve ever been solved before.
  • Be a true generalist: if you’re up for it, you can work on everything from mobile apps, to Ember.js UIs to machine learning algorithms in the same month
  • Have strong real-world Rails experience dealing with large production applications.

Requirements

  • Be a highly motivated self-starter who loves solving challenging problems.
  • Have a good balance of idealism and pragmatism.
  • Have excellent technical and non-technical communication
  • Be passionate about health, including your own.

Values

  • Health Over All
    You prioritize your and other people’s health. It’s too valuable to sacrifice.
  • Growth Over Comfort
    You aim to do things better than you’ve done them before.
  • Team Over Ego
    Leave your ego at the door. Everyone at Zesty is extremely talented.
  • Analysis Over Blame
    We all make mistakes. The important thing is that you learn from them.
  • Communication Over Assumption
    Assumptions are the root cause of many problems. You over-communicate to gain clarity.
  • Do The Right Thing
    The person with integrity wins in the long run. You want to be that person.

Perks & Benefits:

  • Competitive salary.
  • Generous equity grant.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision.
  • Open vacation policy.
  • 401k.
  • Daily catered lunch and dinner from the best restaurants in SF.
  • We are happy to hire remotely*.

* Please note: We’re currently only accepting applications from remote workers whose working hours overlap with the first four hours of the SF working day (from 9am – 1pm PST).

About Zesty

Zesty empowers companies to eat well, work happy and be awesome. Healthy, delicious food experiences from the best local restaurants, served with love.

Curated by in-house dietitians, Zesty works with hundreds of healthy, high quality Bay Area restaurants such as Nopalito, Barbacco, DOSA and The Plant Café, providing nutrition facts on every dish. Every meal is delivered by Zesty's own Catering Captains, offering all the reliability and service quality of an in-house caterer as well as the variety of dozens of cuisines. Zesty works with hundreds of companies including Salesforce, Instacart, Eventbrite and TechCrunch, serving breakfasts, lunches, dinners, happy hours and special events.

Zesty is aiming to make a real impact on the world by significantly improving the health of the human species in the long term. We start by empowering our own own team to live healthfully by offering a gym membership of your choice, on-site sports massage, bi-annual retreats, an open vacation policy...and a kombucha kegerator! We’re proud to not just have a work hard, play hard attitude, but strive for first class execution in everything we do.

We have raised over $20M in funding top Silicon Valley investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Our two-floor office building is located in the sunny Potrero Hill district of San Francisco.