Director of Engineering

The Role

We're looking for a Director of Engineering to own the entire tech stack: backend, mobile, in-restaurant systems, and infrastructure. You'll set technical direction, build and lead the team, but nonetheless stay close enough to the code to make key architectural calls and be an active independent contributor. In other words, we expect you to be rolling your sleeves designing the product, coding, and simultaneously also leading the engineering team.

What You'll Do

• Own the roadmap and delivery across the full stack: consumer mobile app, employee/kitchen apps, cloud API, and on-premise restaurant servers
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of full-stack, mobile, and infrastructure engineers
• Set architectural direction, especially around our real-time, offline-first sync between the cloud and in-restaurant systems
• Establish engineering standards: testing, CI/CD, code review, observability, on-call
• Partner with product, operations, and restaurant leadership to translate business needs into technical plans
• Own reliability and performance for systems that must work during peak hours. Downtime is not optional

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years building software
• Strong technical depth in a TypeScript / Node.js ecosystem; able to review and reason about both backend and mobile code
• Experience owning distributed or offline-first systems: eventual consistency, sync, conflict resolution (we use a CRDT-style mergeable store between cloud and restaurant)
• Familiarity with React Native / mobile app delivery (app store release cycles, native modules, EAS/Expo or equivalent)
• Backend experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL), background job processing, and REST API design
• A track record of shipping reliable production systems and growing the teams that maintain them
• Pragmatic judgment about build-vs-buy, technical debt, and where to invest
• MOST IMPORTANTLY: complete alignment on product vision and a deep desire to build consumer products that will scale to millions of users

Nice to Have

• Previous experience in leading teams
• Experience in restaurant tech, retail POS, logistics, or other systems with hardware and physical-world constraints
• Familiarity with our stack: Expo, Turborepo, TypeORM, Redis/BullMQ, Fly.io, Docker, Datadog
• Experience integrating payments (Stripe), and third-party delivery/comms platforms

Benefits

Competitive pay and the full range of benefits you'd expect, including health coverage and paid time off.