About the role:

You’ll be leading Locale's engineering - both managing and hiring. You'll also be jumping in to build/solve problems yourself (player-coach mentality).

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You'll work the founders to build anything ranging from packing apps for ops teams, entire inventory management systems, to building an e-commerce site. As a member of a small, scrappy team, we move fast to constantly launch new features, and improve the architecture that we’ll build on for years to come.

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This is a great opportunity to get involved in an early-stage, YC startup backed by top investors like a16z.
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Who you are

• You love trying new foods and are passionate about our product and supporting small businesses
• You've been a mentor to other engineers and are looking to level up to lead and build/manage an engineering team yourself
• You're a great communicator and help bridge the gap between the engineering team and the rest of the company
• You like writing and shipping code to production yourself - not just managing others who do this
• You have strong back end development experience (Python, Java, C++)
• Front end experience is nice to have but not required
• You've worked at an e-commerce company (ideally in a similar space with both offline & online components ie Doordash/Uber)
• You value transparency, positivity, and collaboration. You're not afraid to try new things and get outside of your comfort zone

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Your responsibilities

• Solve complex engineering problems yourself and help your team do the same. You'd be managing ~3 engineers to start
• You'll create an amazing engineering culture that encourages creativity and rapid development
• Create the technical roadmap, solidify MVP, identify best tools and practices
• Contribute to company strategy and technical vision
• Own everything that you ship. Make sure to test it thoroughly yourself and with your users to make sure it works and they love it
• Help scale us to millions of orders, with thousands of small business partners across the US
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About Locale

We’re building the top marketplace for food discovery. With Locale, customers can order from local favorites and iconic eateries hundreds of miles away, all delivered in one box for a flat $5 delivery fee.

Since starting in 2020, we’ve delivered 100K+ orders and are backed by a16z, Y-Combinator, Goodwater, Decent Capital, and other top investors.
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Who we are

At our core, we’re a group of passionate entrepreneurs who grew up loving food and always wishing for ways to try new, amazing local products. We love discovering new food and sharing this food with our amazing customers while empowering the producers that we work with to reach more customers in a sustainable way. If you're looking to challenge yourself while meaningfully contributing to making your community a better place, join our team.