Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.

Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings. 

While most of us continue to work remotely, our newly renovated headquarters at the Old Post Office is open for voluntary return to work. Our organization is closely following the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and will share updates on our 2022 return to the office plan as soon as any decisions are made.

Our technology product teams are building software that connect our customers to their dinner plans. Some of our product teams are focused on the customer journey, some are focused on enabling our internal innovation process, while others are focused on helping us effectively ship our meals to our customers. To accomplish this, we believe in building well rounded, diverse teams. In doing so, we create a great place to work, while shipping an impactful product.

What to Expect

• Our Technology Stack is primarily Ruby on Rails, React/React Native, and of course vanilla JavaScript and CSS. Hosting on Heroku, postgres database.
• Teams are made up of Engineering, Product, and Design. These functions work very closely with tight feedback loops to deliver features.
• You will participate in product and feature building alongside the rest of the team, working and pairing with other devs to deploy features to production. You'll participate in planning and estimating sprints.
• While we recognize we all have our strengths and bring different experiences to the table, we view ourselves as full stack engineers. This means that we shouldn't be afraid to pick up the next ticket, and if it is something you don't have as much experience with, a great opportunity to pair!
• We take mentoring seriously. We want to maintain a culture of learning, and bring talented developers onto the team with a growth mindset. We want to make sure that you continually grow as a developer (and hopefully a person too). We will commit to giving you all the tools you need to be successful, all you have to do is commit to coming in, taking on the challenge, and growing with us.

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing Ruby on Rails framework, React/React Native, and of course vanilla JavaScript and CSS. Hosting on Heroku, postgres database
• Can clearly communicate idiosyncrasies and trade offs in advanced technical topics, and can confidently make the final decision, with buy-in, on those topics
• Architecting complex systems in a way that is usable and maintainable by other developers; making high-level design choices and communicating expected technical standards
• Providing detailed, constructive feedback on pull requests in a timely fashion
• Enabling engineers to ship code to production efficiently 

Mentoring:

• Pairing with software engineers to write code
• Assisting with software engineers to discover opportunities for them to grow their skill-set and learn, both technically and non-technically
• Leading meetings about various technical topics or sprints

Impactful Discussions:

• Often taking technical/architecture lead on large projects
• Understands technical impact on product planning, and communicates that clearly to product team
• Actively seeks strategic ways to improve company and increase positive outcomes in Technology
• Is highly accountable to individual and team commitments, while also having the ability to hold team accountable

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Expertise with Atom, Sublime, Slack, GitHub, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, React/React Native, vanilla JavaScript and CSS
• At least 6 months of formal or informal experience in leading other individuals 

Key Traits and Behaviors: These key traits are tied directly to our core values, and encompass your role of consistently delivering value to our customers while being a good teammate.

• Customer Value: Strong advocate for the customer in both technical and product design. Able to initiate and communicate ideas that will serve our customers.




• Technical Skills: Great programmer. Capable of architecting complex systems in a way that is usable and maintainable by other developers. Can clearly communicate idiosyncrasies and trade offs in advanced technical topics.




• Code Quality: Leaves code in substantially better shape that before. Provides thorough, constructive and timely feedback on PRs. Makes it a priority to see that PRs are constantly in motion to deploy.




• Impact: Capable of being technical/architecture lead on large projects. Understands technical impact on product planning, and communicates that clearly to the product team. Is highly accountable to individual and team commitments.




• Growth Mindset: Understands the self, team, and organization are all in constant growth, and actively participates in each of those levels.




• Mentorship: Actively seeks out opportunities to pair with more junior members of the team, looking for opportunities to help them grow both technically and non-technically. Leads meetings about various technical topics or sprints.




• Culture: Contributes positively to the culture of Home Chef in their own way. Actively seeks out ways to improve inclusiveness for all team members. Is a shining example to both Technology and external teams of a good team member.




• Team: Well-respected amongst Technology and Product teams, as well as throughout the organization. Displays leadership among the Technology team.

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Perks/Benefits:

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – benefits start the 1st day of the month following your start date 

- Company paid Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability

- 401k Employer match - 50% on the $1, up to 6% of the employee's earnings 

- We offer flexible spending accounts (FSA) for qualified Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, or Transit expenses

- Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days 

- Generous Parental Leave 

- Great Work/Life Balance – We value and support each individual team member

- Quarterly company-wide “Town Hall” meetings 

- Ongoing professional development opportunities by level and function

- Your choice of Windows or Mac laptop, plus an extra screen 

- Onsite gym 

- Weekly Fooda credit

- Newly renovated office in the historic Old Main Post Office which is located close to multiple Metra and CTA options

- Employee discounts through Perkspot

- Discounts on Home Chef meal kits and at Kroger stores

- Casual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment

Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!

How We Work Together

We are humble team players. 

We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.

We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.

We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking. 

We take ownership.

We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.

Be at Home at Home Chef

We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that you’ll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace. 

We welcome people of all races, colors, religions, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disabilities, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at [email protected].

Home Chef is an equal opportunity employer.

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