<div>Afresh is the leading AI company in fresh food—partnering with grocers like Albertsons, Wakefern, Meijer, and Stater Bros to order billions of dollars of fresh food in over 12,000 grocery departments nationwide.Following record-breaking 70% growth in 2025, we’ve expanded our platform to cover all fresh departments, launched our full store suite, and debuted DC Fresh Buying.We’re on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. In 2025 alone our software helped save 200M lbs of food waste. If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines the future of fresh, there is no better time to join us.</div>About the RoleJoin the Ordering Pod as a Senior Software Engineer to own the development of our high-revenue, flagship AI ordering product. This is a pivotal role where you will be empowered to define the architectural roadmap for our next-generation systems and tackle challenging engineering problems that directly enable our business expansion.What You’ll Do<ul><li>Lead the design, building, and deploy highly scalable and robust APIs, making critical architectural decisions that shape our platform.</li><li>Partner with Product, Account Management**, and peer engineering teams** to deliver integrated solutions that serve client needs.</li><li>Contribute to the vision of the next generation Ordering product, while also support our current iPad solution.</li><li>Enforce best practices for testing and releases to maintain high standards of system reliability.</li></ul>Skills and Experience<ul><li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience</li><li>4+ years of software development experience.</li><li>A strong desire to learn and master new technologies to meet the evolving needs of the platform.</li><li>Proven ability to lead and drive projects through the entire development lifecycle, from conception to launch, with a high degree of autonomy.</li><li>Readiness to step into a mentorship role to guide junior engineers and contribute to the team's growth.</li><li>Being curious about complex systems, including a desire to understand our intricate business domain and dependencies outside the team's direct ownership.</li><li>A strong team player who understands that we succeed (and learn) together.. In the spirit of that, you actively participate in team ceremonies, swarm with engineers and perform that doing timely and constructive code reviews.</li></ul>Nice to Have<ul><li>You have worked in with an Agile software delivery cycle before.</li><li>You have leveraged modern AI-powered tools to accelerate development and enhance your workflow</li><li>You have experience in Typescript and cloud technologies in general and Azure specifically.</li></ul>We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they don’t meet every listed qualification.Salary Range in USD:Salary Range in CAD:<div>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: AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, UT, VA, WI.</div>

Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food&rsquo;s complexities.
 We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year.
We are building a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company&rsquo;s values: proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. We aspire to continually grow as individuals and as an organization to live these values and realize our mission. We earnestly believe that Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by employing novel technology&mdash;and to have a ton of fun along the way.

Senior Backend Engineer

<div>Afresh is the leading AI company in fresh food—partnering with grocers like Albertsons, Wakefern, Meijer, and Stater Bros to order billions of dollars of fresh food in over 12,000 grocery departments nationwide.Following record-breaking 70% growth in 2025, we’ve expanded our platform to cover all fresh departments, launched our full store suite, and debuted DC Fresh Buying.We’re on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. In 2025 alone our software helped save 200M lbs of food waste. If you're looking for a role where your work directly translates into&nbsp;massive scale and social good, and you want to be part of the team that defines the future of fresh,&nbsp;there is no better time to join us.</div>About the RoleJoin the Ordering Pod as a&nbsp;Senior Software Engineer&nbsp;to own the development of our&nbsp;high-revenue, flagship AI ordering product. This is a pivotal role where you will be empowered to&nbsp;define the architectural roadmap&nbsp;for our next-generation systems and tackle challenging engineering problems that directly enable our business expansion.What You’ll Do<ul><li>Lead the design, building, and deploy highly&nbsp;scalable and robust APIs, making critical architectural decisions that shape our platform.</li><li>Partner with Product, Account Management**, and peer engineering teams** to deliver integrated solutions that serve client needs.</li><li>Contribute to the vision of the next generation Ordering product, while also support our current iPad solution.</li><li>Enforce best practices for testing and releases to maintain high standards of system reliability.</li></ul>Skills and Experience<ul><li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience</li><li>4+ years of software development experience.</li><li>A strong desire to learn and master new technologies to meet the evolving needs of the platform.</li><li>Proven ability to lead and drive projects through the entire development lifecycle, from conception to launch, with a high degree of autonomy.</li><li>Readiness to&nbsp;step into a mentorship role&nbsp;to guide junior engineers and contribute to the team's growth.</li><li>Being curious about complex systems, including a desire to understand our&nbsp;intricate business domain&nbsp;and dependencies outside the team's direct ownership.</li><li>A strong team player who understands that we succeed (and learn) together.. In the spirit of that, you actively participate in team ceremonies, swarm with engineers and perform that doing timely and constructive code reviews.</li></ul>Nice to Have<ul><li>You have worked in with an Agile software delivery cycle before.</li><li>You have leveraged modern AI-powered tools to accelerate development and enhance your workflow</li><li>You have experience in Typescript and cloud technologies in general and Azure specifically.</li></ul>We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they don’t meet every listed qualification.Salary Range in USD:Salary Range in CAD:<div>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.&nbsp; 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:&nbsp;AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA,&nbsp;UT,&nbsp;VA, WI.</div>

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