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title: 'Founding Software Engineer at OfOne'
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# Founding Software Engineer at OfOne

- **Company:** OfOne
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2024-04-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/ofone/am9icG9zdDrn-4YtBONI1vVhyYEt6T7L

## Job description

## About OfOne

At OfOne, we're reshaping the drive-thru experience with voice AI. We’re already helping top-50 restaurant chains operate more efficiently and level-up their customer experience.

We're on the lookout for smart and hungry builders ready to drive into the voice AI scene. We’re offering a chance to deliver software that touches millions of people, pushes $billions of economic impact, and is at the forefront of delivering real-time AI applications to the real world.

We move fast, believe in collaboration over competition, and have the backing of major VCs like SignalFire, Correlation Ventures, and Y Combinator. If this sounds like a fit, come join us at our office in the heart of SF and let's build something great.

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
- Build and maintain integrations with 3rd party restaurant software systems like POS, loyalty, payment gateways, and customer data platforms.
- 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 and API design.
- 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
- Free lunch

## About OfOne

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OfOne is an AI-powered software company that automates order taking at fast-food drive-thrus using conversational AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Deepgram in early 2026; previously VC-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Will Edwards (CEO), Adam Proschek (CTO), Ceena Modarres (Head of ML)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fast-food drive-thru automation / voice AI for restaurants
- **Target customers**: Top-50 restaurant chains and national fast-food operators (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Deliver human centric experiences that help restaurant operators prosper, deliver delight for their customers, and empower their workers."

## Products & Services
- **AI Order Automation**: End-to-end conversational AI that handles the drive-thru ordering process from greeting to order execution, including answering questions, intelligently upselling, and processing orders through the point-of-sale. Works with existing drive-thru audio systems. Achieves 93% AI order accuracy and 28% faster ordering times.
- **Administrative Controls**: Dashboard for managing menu items, pricing, and promotions.
- **Integrations**: POS, loyalty programs, online ordering, third-party delivery pickup, and drive-thru audio hardware.
- **Security & Compliance**: SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Deepgram; terms undisclosed)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding (pre-acquisition) – backed by SignalFire, Correlation Ventures, and Y Combinator (amounts not disclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (YC S22), SignalFire, Correlation Ventures; integrated with major POS and loyalty systems
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired by Deepgram in early 2026 to integrate voice AI into a broader enterprise platform; signed and deployed pilots at major national chain stores; addresses 200,000 drive-thrus in the US representing $12B in annual labor costs

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized domain knowledge**: Built specifically for drive-thru environments, not a generic voice assistant.
- **Proven metrics**: 93% accuracy, 28% faster ordering, saves ~$60,000 per store annually in labor costs.
- **Seamless integration**: Works with existing drive-thru audio hardware and third-party restaurant systems (POS, loyalty, payments).
- **Personalized upselling**: Uses LLMs to suggest relevant items (e.g., ice cream on a hot day).
- **Human-centric approach**: Always says please and thank you, improving customer experience.

## Strategic Focus
- Under Deepgram, OfOne’s technology is being integrated into a larger enterprise voice AI platform, expanding from drive-thrus to broader real-time AI applications.
- Continuing to automate the largest order channel in the quick-service restaurant industry (70%+ of volume for many chains).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced startup environment; "move fast, believe in collaboration over competition."
- **Workspace**: Hybrid – employees combine remote and on-site work in San Francisco.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary and equity package, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, free lunch.
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge real-time voice AI that touches millions of people; strong ownership across backend, ML, and integrations.
- **Growth**: Backed by top-tier VCs and now part of Deepgram, offering stability plus startup agility.

## Sources
1. [of.one](https://www.of.one/)
2. [of.one/company](https://www.of.one/company)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/ofone-inc)
4. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ofone)
5. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/ofone/am9icG9zdDrn-4YtBONI1vVhyYEt6T7L)

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