Do you want to build products that connect thousands of food orderers to restaurants every day? Do you love writing well formatted, unit-tested, and documented code? Does the thought of continuous integration and agile workflow encourage you to craft high-quality and resilient code? Do you feel security, availability, and maintainability are naturally linked to a solid application architecture?

If all() of your answers to the above == True, keep reading; this might be the product building environment you have been searching for.

Our Product and Technology

Our backend applications are written in Python 2.7 and 3.6, and we have plans to upgrade to 3.6 globally. The RESTful APIs we develop enable several client-facing platforms, ranging from our website products built with React & Redux to our native mobile applications. Depending on our use case, we store data in MySQL RDS, Elasticsearch or Redis.

Our infrastructure-as-code platform is hosted by Amazon Web Services, developed and orchestrated using Ansible and Terraform. We automate as much as we can, utilizing Jenkins for deployments and Docker to build our applications.

About the Position

ChowNow’s Engineering Team has built a reliable, stable, and modern platform enabling restaurant owners to accept pickup and delivery orders online. Our “quality product first” approach to engineering drives the team to succeed and has contributed to the success and growth of the company. We are looking for similar minded engineers who care deeply about the product, the customers, the team members, and the codebase itself. As Backend Engineer, you will develop solutions to interesting technology problems, explore exciting growth opportunities and have a real impact on our product.

About the Team:

At ChowNow we are driven by one purpose: to provide restaurants with the tools needed to compete in an increasingly technical world. Our products help restaurants get online quickly and easily so they can maintain direct relationships with their customers. As the world evolves and new technology platforms emerge, we will be there to help our restaurant clients stay up to speed online.

We’ve been named a Best Place to Work, have been certified as a Great Place to Work, and have a whole bunch of happy employees on Glassdoor!

Within 3 Months, You'll..

• Learn our business model and how it translates to platform architecture and features. We work close with product and it influences how we think about the code
• Build, launch, and support your first feature in one of our many products. We ship with iterative agility
• Master development patterns and collaborative processes. We work together to make work efficient
• Write internal documentation and test your features and systems. We take responsibility for communication and quality

Within 6 Months, You'll..

• Have made a valued impact on multiple products across our platform. We celebrate our success by measuring our impact, internally and externally
• Understand major feature areas of our applications and be comfortable navigating the stack and infrastructure. We are all generalists, but we specialize in minor feature areas too
• Have participated in the architecture and implementation of new developer and user-facing features. We communicate and collaborate on our architecture to achieve security, scalability, and maximum learning

Within 12 Months, You'll..

• Build within reliable estimates. We know this takes time, and we strive to be accurate with each other
• Feel comfortable as a knowledge leader of a particular part of ChowNow platform, contributing teaching and continuing to learn. We want to learn as much as we teach
• Provide feedback during code-reviews of prospective engineers and listen in on telephone screening. We will teach you our interviewing methods

You Should Apply If:

• You have experience building SaaS products, e-commerce or similar online platforms
• You are excited about new technologies, and at the same time pragmatic when it comes to adoption of the latest innovations
• You constantly work to get better at your craft
• You find excitement in learning new business models and transferring such knowledge into beautiful software design
• You like collaborating with multiple stakeholders within and outside Engineering Team towards a common goal
• You make decisions based on data and evidence
• You enjoy iterative, agile development process with frequent releases
• You take great pleasure in writing quality, highly maintainable code
• You thrive in environments supporting your growth, and where you can support others

About Our Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Ongoing training and growth opportunities
• A "best place to work" winner multiple times where we focus on creating a great employee experience
• Rock solid medical, dental, and vision plans
• 3 weeks paid vacation; paid holidays; we expect you to work hard, but still enjoy your personal life
• 6 weeks of baby bonding time for all new parents (within the first year of birth or adoption), 6 Weeks of Paid Pregnancy Leave
• Employer-contributing student loan assistance program
• Commuter benefits (including Uber Pool)
• Employee Stock Incentive Plan
• Quarterly Industry Speakers Series
• Quarterly Tech Events (Women, LGBTQ, Diversity, Inclusion)
• Consistent & fair leadership: we’ll share info, set clear goals, show you respect, and treat everyone fairly
• Enough freedom to spread your wings while still holding you accountable
• Fully stocked kitchen and cold brew on tap

ChowNow is committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. ChowNow will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.