If you ever wanted to be on the ground floor of a well-funded, rapidly growing Series C start-up that is disrupting a 5.7Tn market, now is the time to join Takeoff Technologies! We are a 250 person global company transforming online grocery for consumers & retailers. Takeoff's solution offers automated fullfillment coupled with an end-to-end e-Grocery technology stack, enabling retailers to offer their shoppers the assortment and low prices of stores, with convenient mobile ordering and same day pickup or delivery.

Our eGrocery solution was created with the grocer and the shopper in mind. Grocery is an incredibly complex industry, and our products are unlike any other: they are low value, perishable, heavy, and low-margin. Our automated solution is flexible enough to manage these complexities allowing us to ensure the correct picking method for the correct product!

Excited about potentially joining this rocketship to help us bridge the gap between retail and technology? Looking to make an impact daily and help us disrupt a hundred year old industry? If so, continue reading!

We are looking for a Lead Developer to oversee our engineering efforts and influence our product roadmap. This is much more than a technical position, though. You will be collaborating across teams, informing our business decisions, and creatively finding solutions to all of our scaling challenges.

This will be exciting because you will have the chance to:

• Responsible for the overall planning execution and success of complex software solutions to meet customers needs
• Collaborate with business leads across the company to define milestones and deliveries on very short time frames for new functionality to be added to existing systems.
• You will be the first voice for the engineering organization on the systems your team owns.
• Lead your team in design sessions and ensure high quality work that aligns with Takeoff's engineering strategy.
• Identifying and clearing roadblocks for your team and collaborate with different business functions in order get what your team needs to move forward.
• Collaborating with Product Managers to ensure the backlog is fleshed out for the next development iteration, to Designers to get high fidelity designs of a particular feature, to Operations to ensure the developers on your team have the right tools to get their job done.

What you may bring to the table(not all are required):

• You have experience as the Senior or Lead Developer / Engineer on a development team where you were responsible for everything from planning to delivering key features and management of those features
• Experience with at least one object-oriented language like Java, Clojure, Clojurescript and Python
• Strong relational database skills using technologies like MySQL or SQL Server
• Ability to write automated comprehensive test suites at all levels of the architecture.
• Prior experience helping scale a rapidly growing company is a plus.

Some of the reasons you'll love working at Takeoff:

• We're a successful, rapidly-growing startup with an entrepreneurial vibe
• We're disrupting the eGrocery industry with our innovative business model
• We're passionate about what we do
• We get to be creative on a daily basis
• You'll work with a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right, and is open to new ideas
• We believe in autonomy, and reward those who take intiative
• We offer competitive salaries and comprehensive health benefits
• We have fun
• We are committed to building a highly diverse and inclusive culture and environment

Some of the perks and benefits we offer:

• Competitive salary with yearly bonus incentives based on individual and company performance
• Health, Dental and Vision plans
• 401(K) plan with a 5% company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Tuition reimbursement
• 12 weeks of paid baby bonding leave for both parents
• Flexible spending/dependent care accounts
• Life Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability
• Annual Fitness Reimbursement of $300

Some of the ways we are addressing Covid-19:

While Covid-19 has posed it’s fair share of challenges, we have tackled these head on, while continuing to ensure that the health and safety of our employees and clients remain top priorities. We certainly believe that building a successful company starts with the people, and while the chance to meet and collaborate face to face in an office setting is vital to our growth and company culture, the health and safety of the Takeoff team is the most important right now. To that end, we are embracing and implementing a “work wherever” company policy.

Whether it be a Cultural Brunch & Learn, a Rocketberry Mini-Series showcasing some of our teams dynamic and hidden talents, or a weekly “coffee chat” to catch up with your fellow colleagues, we are finding creative ways to stay connected and engaged with each other during these challenging times.

Lastly along with our robust and competitive benefits package that we offer(above), we are excited to roll out two new benefits; a “remote work allowance” as well as a “remote office setup reimbursement”. These benefits will be effective immediately upon hire date geared towards ensuring that our employees are continuously set up for success while working remotely!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Our culture revolves around our core values of respect, initiative, collaboration, adaptability and diversity. As people, we value hard work, but we balance it with socializing as a team, respecting our time outside of work, and appreciating our coworkers’ unique walks of life.

Takeoff is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Learn more at www.takeoff.com. We believe that diversity is critical to the growth of our company; we foster an environment where everyone has a voice and views the Takeoff team as their second family.