OfOne is a startup building AI-powered order taking for restaurant drive-thrus. Leveraging conversational AI, we improve restaurant operating efficiency by streamlining labor, boosting sales, and improving customer experience. We are looking for talented folks to join our small, highly collaborative team as one of the first five employees.

OfOne is venture-backed by top-tier seed investors including SignalFire and Y Combinator.

Due to our product’s tight integration of hardware and software, we believe it’s a competitive advantage for us to work together in person 4-5 days per week. Our office is just off the 19th Street BART Station in Oakland, CA.

About OfOne: OfOne is a startup building AI-powered order taking for restaurant drive-thrus. Leveraging LLMs like GPT-4/Flamingo/Llama, we improve restaurant operating efficiency by streamlining labor, boosting sales, and improving customer experience. We are looking for a talented and experienced Backend Engineer to join our small, highly collaborative team as one of the first five employees.

OfOne is venture-backed by top-tier seed investors including SignalFire, Correlation Ventures and Y Combinator.

Due to our product’s tight integration of hardware and software, we believe it’s a competitive advantage for us to work together in person 4-5 days per week. Our office is just off the 19th Street BART Station in Oakland, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems for our automated order-taking platform
• Collaborate closely with our team to ensure the seamless integration of our backend with our ML models and client devices
• Monitor and optimize the performance of our backend systems in production environments
• Implement best practices in system design, code quality, and testing to ensure a reliable, secure, and maintainable system

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing, implementing, and maintaining backend infrastructure in production environments
• Proven track record of building and deploying scalable, high-performance backend systems
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and deployment technologies, such as AWS
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving startup environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a team
• Willingness to problem solve across our entire product
• Ability to proactively recognize problems and identify solutions to those problems

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience working with audio
• Experience taking a backend system from zero to one
• Experience building and maintaining a system that integrates with many 3rd party APIs, particularly Point of Sale systems
• Experience with Kotlin or Java
• Experience with containerization tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance
• Opportunities for growth and advancement within a fast-paced, innovative startup environment building on the cutting edge
• The chance to make a meaningful impact on an industry ripe for innovation

Join us at OfOne as we shape the future of restaurants with our groundbreaking technology. Apply now and become a key member of our talented and ambitious team.

Our client application, data pipeline, and ML work are written in Python. Our backend is written in Kotlin using Ktor. It's currently hosted on AWS.