Senior Full Stack Engineer

Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Python + React)

Full-time · Remote · Overlap 08:00 – 16:00 US Eastern

About FareFood

FareFood is a B2B SaaS platform that lets independent restaurants order from every food distributor in one place instead of juggling log-ins, emails, and phone calls. From a single dashboard operators can:
• Build one cart that respects each distributor’s minimum-order rules and submit all POs in one click.
• Watch real-time food-cost % and low-stock warnings.
• Track inventory, submit returns, and compare pricing across suppliers—no re-keying.

Early pilots save restaurants 27–30 % on food spend and reclaim hours of admin work every week.

Why This Role Matters

Our next stage of growth is shipping features fast while hardening the data pipes underneath. You will be the first Full-Stack Engineer—owning both the integration layer (Python) and the product experience (React). You’ll decide when to dive deep on a flaky scraper and when to polish a UI that delights chefs at 2 a.m. in the walk-in.

After Your First 60 Days You Will…
1. Run the integrations pipeline solo. Scrapers, hidden APIs, EDI mappings—you design, code, and monitor the lot.
2. Ship front-end features end-to-end. Price-comparison view, low-stock alerts, order-tracking timeline—you build the React components and connect them to your own APIs.
3. Replace brittle scripts with resilient services. Headless scraping today? Fine—but wrapped in retries, observability, and alerting you deploy.
4. Cut the first distributor over to production EDI traffic (X12 850/855/810 or EDIFACT ORDRSP/INVOIC). You manage mapping, validation, and go-live sign-off with supplier IT.
5. Document the playbook. Future engineers follow your standards for code, tests, and data stewardship.

What You’ll Do Day to Day
• Supplier Integrations. Design, build, and maintain flows that grab catalogues/pricing via EDI, headless scraping, or undocumented REST/GraphQL.
• Catalogue Automation. Normalise packs, units, and SKUs across suppliers in Postgres; keep thousands of items fresh daily with least-cost polling.
• Order Workflow. Generate POs, poll for acknowledgements/ship notices, surface status to the app in real time.
• Front-End Delivery. Build and refine React components (Next.js) that let restaurants search 15 k+ SKUs, compare prices, and one-click checkout across vendors.
• Ops Console & Admin Tooling. Craft internal dashboards/APIs our ops team uses for catalog moderation, supplier onboarding, and order-exception handling.
• Reliability, CI/CD & IaC. Own Docker-based pipelines and IaC (AWS Amplify, Lambda, EventBridge). Add health dashboards, retry logic, alerting, and handle the rare on-call incident.
• Leverage AI. Use ChatGPT/Copilot (or anything that helps) to code, test, and document faster—we celebrate automation, even if it deletes busy-work.

You’re a Fit If You Have
• 5+ years building production full-stack apps (start-up or scale-up preferred).
• Proven history of EDI or high-volume scraping + API integrations and React (or similar) feature delivery.
• Python mastery plus modern React/TypeScript skills.
• Postgres & SQL schema design chops; comfortable joining data in Xano.
• AWS experience: Lambda, S3, EventBridge, plus Docker for local dev & CI.
• Git-centred workflow, PR discipline, and the judgment to ship incrementally.
• The mindset to take a vague problem statement, ship a production-ready solution, measure, then iterate.

Nice-to-Haves
• Prior work in food-service supply-chain, marketplaces, or ERP.
• Experience writing parsers for PDF/CSV catalogues or building catalog-matching ML models.
• Design eye—can tidy up a Figma spec before shipping.

How We Work
• Core hours: 08:00 – 16:00 US Eastern; async outside that.
• On-call: Very rare weekend pager—only for customer-visible incidents.
• Team: Tiny and senior; you’ll report to the founding CTO and ship directly to production.