Lead Stack Engineer - AI Capable

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking Senior Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our lean, operations-driven team. As the first engineering hire, you'll not only architect and build our suite of software products-from kitchen operations and recipe management platforms to new digital tools for future lines of business-but you'll also lay the foundation for our AI-assisted systems.

You will directly influence the technological trajectory of our business and be the principal driver of technical implementation, innovation, and efficiency. We're looking for a self-starter who can operate as a solo engineer initially, but with the foresight to design scalable systems with AI in mind and grow a team around them. On-site presence (5 days / week) is mandatory due to the deep integration of our tech with physical operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end planning, design, and development of our internal and customer-facing software products
• Integrate AI / ML tools and services to improve kitchen productivity, forecasting, data extraction, and intelligent automation
• Evaluate opportunities to apply AI to unstructured data : menu PDFs, kitchen camera feeds, ops logs, 3P order metadata, etc.
• Collaborate with data, kitchen ops, and executive stakeholders to define requirements and roadmap
• Write clean, scalable code across the full stack with strong documentation and system design practices
• Architect systems that can incorporate LLMs, embeddings, and real-time AI inferences
• Design fault-tolerant systems that integrate cloud-native AI services (OpenAI, HuggingFace, Google Vertex, LangChain, Pinecone, etc.
• Establish CI / CD practices, test coverage, and performance monitoring
• Contribute to overall strategic tech planning, with a particular focus on how AI tools can extend human capabilities
• Recruit and mentor new engineers as the team expands

Qualifications

Bonus Areas of AI Application