Intro Are you excited by building products about the food sector helping consumers with food shopping and brands with understanding their customers?
Are you a full-stack engineer with experience and a passion for the building great products with your frontend engineering skills?
Then you've come to the right place!
MenuAid exists to improve the world of food. We provide FMCG brands with game-changing behavioural insights that show WHY & HOW their products are used in the real world. We do this by leveraging the data captured from our shoppable recipe platform which is the preferred way to grocery shop for over 40,000+ Kiwis & Australians.
As a key member of our ~5 person technology team, you'll have the opportunity to directly contribute to revolutionising the way consumers shop for food and how FMCG brands understand their customers. This roles focus is towards a full stack engineer who has a passion for frontend, we're open to different levels of experience and ability on this role so read on and then apply if this is interesting to you.
About MenuAid At MenuAid our culture drives our success. We pride ourselves on creating an environment where talented and dedicated peoplethrive. We live & breathe our core values—strongest as a team, embracing change for the better, learning from every outcome, and an unwavering commitment to our customers. This mindset helps us winin the fast-paced food tech landscape.
We value a variety of personalities, viewpoints, and cultures, knowing different perspectives bring a new flavour to our solutions.
Our work life is based in Christchurch office and includes fun times like Treat Tuesdays, quarterly team days, and in-office games. These fun moments aren't just perks though. They show the importance we place on working as a team & being passionate about what we do.
What our team has to say
Hi, I'm Kiriana - a software engineer in our product team. As an Engineer, my enjoyment at MenuAid comes from leading projects - being apart of the project from conception, brainstorming, build solutions with the product teams wide range of tech, working closely with various departments all with the ultimate goal to deliver a user-centred feature. Hey, I'm Matt. I've been at MenuAid for 3 months and absolutely love it. Why? The product is a perfect market fit and constantly evolving, the team is second to none, and I can genuinely say that I feel like I've learnt a year's worth of knowledge in the few months that I've been here to help me get to my end career goal. Couple up an awesome culture and a continuous improvement mindset, and that's what is so epic about MenuAid! Hey I'm Sarah & I'm in the marketing team. I love being part of a team setting the business up to succeed, plus there is heaps of variety in my role. Every day I am balancing strategic planning with smaller day-to-day tasks, which makes it fun, fast-paced, and I quickly see the results of my work. We're on the hunt for the real deal, a new team member who is ready to excel. We're talking about folks who are not just talented, but also eager to learn and grow, always asking the "why" behind the "what." Who roll up their sleeves, dive into their work, and bring a sharp intellect to the table.
We'd love to see a track record of great wins in your past roles. But it's not just about hard skills; we're also looking for team members who are collaborative, solution-focused, and thrive in a fast-paced change environment. And of course don'tforget passion — the fire in your belly to deliver your best every time. If you've got these traits you'll fit right in, so get in touch.
Our interview process
A 15 minute call with the hiring manager. A ~60-90 meeting with 10 minute founder intro, and the rest for role specific discussion with hiring manager and probably a peer. A 60 minute technical deep dive or take home exercise plus discussions with hiring manager and a peer (depending on role/hiring manager). A casual invite to meet the team and see our office. References > Offer About the role Purpose of your role & key tasks
You will play a central role in building new and improving existing products we offer. You align with the team on the direction of your work, write code and pull requests for the team to review. As a intermediate/senior engineer, you can tackle projects independently, but coordinate your work with the team. As a Full-stack engineer with Vue/ReactJS experience you'll launch products using your ability to work independently, collaboratively and responsibly. Your qualities and attributes
People who work well in our technology teams have
Good communication skills and love to seek feedback. You love to understand our customers directly and advocate for them. Ability to balance independent working and collaboration skills. You're passionate about your craft and want to grow yourself further. You're experienced in and excited by building for simplicity, keeping things flexible and you're able to pivot focus easily to help MenuAid startup grow. You love to ship often and iterate. You can deal with the uncertainties and dynamics of a start-up, but this gives you a lot of freedom and the opportunity to contribute your own ideas. Tech stack We're growing our team and this role is to accelerate our product development while also increasing our teams competency in frontend engineering.
We're looking for someone with experience in Vue/ReactJS and all things frontend. We use Vue, Blade, Tailwind, Bootstrap for Frontend, helping us is your passion and craft! Our technology ecosystem you'll also collaborate on
Vue, Blade, Tailwind, Bootstrap for frontend experiences. PHP8 and above for application code. Laravel Breeze, Vapor, Nova and we're exploring others. AWS for Databases, Data Engineering and AI with Bedrock. We're exploring use of AI tools across our products & Snowflake for data warehousing. Projects
We've launched Insights to enable brands to get to know their customers in 3 months and now all of our all 50 FMCG brand partners use it. We're working on our Consumer User Journey's for better customer engagement over the next two months. We we're excited to plan whats next which might be Data Pipelines, Insights or AI work after that. What we offer Dynamic Startup Environment: Contribute ideas that will help shape the future of MenuAid. We're a passionate team, we value open communication, and don't take ourselves too seriously. Hybrid Work Model: Embracing future flexibility, we offer location and time adaptability. WFH is optional on Wednesday's and Friday's. Work at your peak efficiency, even if that's at 6am, as long as the mahi is done, we are happy. Rapid Professional Growth: Being in scale up stage, all our roles are exposed to both strategic planning and end-to-delivery project delivery. This variety in our roles offers you the ability to quickly increase your professional skillsets. Engagement and Fun: Serve it up at table tennis, or decompress with a puzzle. Once a quarter we put the tools down & have some fun! Think activities like kayaking in Akaroa, Zip-lining, or Paint & Sip. We do these within work hours for a good work/life balance. Equity Stake: We offer an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) so you can own your outcomes & part of MenuAid. We're all invested in ensuring our growth is realised. Pet-Friendly Workplace: Dogs are our best friends. Don't leave them at home, let them contribute to making MenuAid an epic place to work. Snacks, treats & coffee! Barista-quality coffee machine for the morning pick me up with fresh fruit, snacks & sodas to top you up during the day. Compensation range! We're open that our salary range for this role is: Feeling like you could thrive with us and add to our team's strength? Go ahead and hit us up with your application! We can't wait to meet you. This could be where you belong.
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