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# Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Shef

- **Company:** Shef
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$170k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/shef-com/am9icG9zdDpu4lUutmIsb6ynrBBgrclm

## Job description

## WHAT WE DO

At Shef, we’re building a homemade food marketplace. We believe in providing the shefs in our community (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents, retirees, and out-of-work restaurant chefs) the opportunity to make a meaningful income by doing what they love. We also believe that everyone should have access to a wholesome, home-cooked meal at an affordable price. We’re building a community devoted to economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity — that’s why we started Shef. We have raised over $100m from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and M13, as well as founders and executives from Instacart, TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and Yelp.

## THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll lead the development of delightful, high-impact experiences for both consumers and Shefs across the country. You’ll help optimize the shopping experience for customers, and you’ll build micro-entrepreneurship tools that enable Shefs to run and grow their own businesses. If we succeed, we’ll fundamentally change how people purchase food — expanding access to healthy, affordable, authentic meals while empowering thousands of entrepreneurs. This role reports directly to the company’s engineering leader. This is a hybrid position located in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York (local candidates only).

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own the design, implementation, and rollout of key product features end-to-end — from discovery through launch and iteration
- Build new experiences that delight consumers and help Shefs grow their businesses
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Ops to define requirements, validate assumptions, and ship measurable improvements
- Bring a strong bias for execution while making good technical tradeoffs between time, quality, and long-term maintainability
- Use analytics and customer insights to identify opportunities, measure outcomes, and iterate quickly
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence: code quality, testing, observability, performance, and reliability
- Mentor other engineers through thoughtful code reviews, pairing, and sharing best practices; help improve team processes and technical decision-making
- Contribute to architecture and technical strategy in a pragmatic, startup-appropriate way

## QUALIFICATIONS

Significant professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications (typically 5+ years, but we care most about scope and impact)

- Strong experience with modern web development — React, TypeScript, and Node (or equivalent expertise with the ability to ramp quickly)
- Proven ability to lead projects with ambiguous requirements and drive them to a high-quality outcome
- Product-minded: you think in terms of customer needs, business outcomes, and measurable impact — not just tickets
- Comfortable operating in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve; you make smart tradeoffs and keep momentum
- High ownership and accountability: you proactively find problems, propose solutions, and follow through

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience at high-growth startups (pre-seed through Series C)
- Experience with experimentation, analytics, or growth/product iteration loops
- Experience building tools for entrepreneurs, marketplaces, logistics, or consumer checkout/search experiences
- Familiarity with scaling systems, performance tuning, or improving reliability/observability

## DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

At Shef, we are building a platform that celebrates difference and cultural inclusivity by providing equitable opportunities for economic empowerment and by reimagining food making and sharing in our 21st century world. Our employee, shef, and customer communities represent a wide, beautiful cross-section of individuals from diverse cultures, ethnicities, races, and walks of life. Shef is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to build a team that reflects the communities we serve, and a workplace that nurtures and empowers unique identities and experiences. We strongly encourage applications from BIPOC (Black; Indigenous; People of Color), women, LGBTQ+, and other individuals who are underrepresented in the industry, across color, religion, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, gender and sexual identity. For individuals who require an accommodation during the interview process, please advise your company contact.

## NOTE: PROTECT YOURSELF FROM JOB SCAMS

Please protect yourself from job scams. Shef will never ask for money or fees at any point during the interview process. Shef does not ask applicants to communicate through Telegram, Skype, or WhatsApp. If you are being asked to download a third-party app to communicate for a job interview, do not download. Shef posts all legitimate job openings on our jobs page. Any legitimate role on a third-party site will also be posted on our careers page.

## About Shef

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Shef is an online marketplace that connects consumers with local, food safety certified home cooks (shefs) who prepare and deliver homemade meals, enabling cooks to earn a meaningful income while bringing cultural inclusivity to the food system.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $109.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Alvin Salehi (Co-founder, Chairman) and Joey Grassia (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food technology / Online marketplace for homemade food
- **Target customers**: B2C – consumers looking for affordable, homemade meals from local cooks
- **Mission or purpose**: “Rebuilding the food system from scratch, redefining who can participate in the food economy, and returning personal connection to the making, eating, and sharing of food.” [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Shef Marketplace**: A platform where home cooks (“shefs”) create menus, prepare meals in small batches, and deliver them directly to customers. The service is available in 11 states across the U.S., including major cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$109.3M**; annual revenue of **$2M** (as of latest available data). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series B (March 2023) led by **CRV**, with participation from 4 investors; prior rounds include Y Combinator (W19 batch), seed rounds, and debt financing from 15 investors. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expanded to serve more than 60 million people across 11 states. [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)
  - Headcount grew 18.7% year-over-year (87 employees). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
  - Active advocacy for home cooking laws (MEHKO guidance) to unlock new markets.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory-first moat**: Shef’s operations are deeply intertwined with food safety and home‑kitchen regulations. By navigating city‑by‑city compliance and actively pushing for legalization, the company builds a defensible position that is difficult to replicate. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)
- **Inclusive community**: 75% of shefs are women and 80% are people of color, representing nearly 100 countries – creating a unique cultural and authentic food offering. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shef)
- **Mission-driven brand**: Strong alignment with economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity gives the company a compelling narrative that attracts both customers and talent.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: 
  - Continue geographic expansion (currently 11 states) and scale the marketplace.
  - Champion policy changes to expand home cooking laws, making it easier for cooks to participate legally.
  - Invest in product and engineering to improve the platform experience for both shefs and consumers. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shef/jobs)
- **Direction for growth**: Build a national, then global, network of home cooks while maintaining food safety and compliance standards.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven environment focused on social impact, diversity, and inclusion. Strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups (BIPOC, women, LGBTQ+). [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid model with two hubs in San Francisco and New York. [shef.com](https://www.shef.com/careers)
- **Notable perks and engineering culture**: 
  - Employees report high mission clarity and rapid learning opportunities due to lean team and cross‑functional ownership. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)
  - Compensation for full‑stack software engineer is ~$144k/year. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
  - Employer rating: 3.9/5.0 (30 reviews), with culture rated 4.6/5.0. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
  - However, workload can be demanding, processes change frequently, and contractors (shefs) lack traditional benefits – best suited for those comfortable with startup intensity. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)

## Sources
1. [shef.com/careers](https://www.shef.com/careers)
2. [linkedin.com/company/ordershef](https://linkedin.com/company/ordershef)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/shef](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shef)
4. [builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception](https://builtin.com/company/shef/faq/workplace-perception)

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