Product-Minded Software Engineer

KASO is an AI-powered group purchasing platform for the food industry that helps restaurants aggregate demand and access chain-level pricing. The Product-Minded Software Engineer will build scalable software to replace manual procurement workflows, including platform architecture, order workflows, pricing logic, data foundations, and automation layers.

Responsibilities:

• Replace manual, people-dependent procurement workflows with trustworthy software that is accurate, scalable, and self-serve
• Contribute to the technical platform, including tech architecture, order workflows, matching and pricing logic, data foundations, and automation layers that support operations and user experience
• Turn messy food procurement processes into reliable product workflows
• Ensure the business scales without losing pricing accuracy, order integrity, or operational trust, while enabling the team to serve more restaurants with less manual work

Requirements:

• Backend depth - built and scaled production systems, with proven ability to architect and orchestrate multi-service applications
• Stack fluency - deep hands-on expertise in TypeScript/Node.js and Python, plus React, Flutter or similar on the frontend
• Data modeling - modeled messy real-world data into trustworthy systems at scale
• Think in AI automation - track record of automating operations-heavy processes with AI, avid use of state-of-the-art AI development tools as Claude Code
• Product judgment - led E2E architecture through launch with a bias for speed and impact; made pragmatic tradeoffs to solve user problems
• Domain - built B2B platforms such as procurement, marketplaces, or supply chain, ideally in a startup or scale-up environment
• Money movement - worked on billing, invoicing, payments, or reconciliation systems
• Team leadership - scaled and led technical teams through architecture, code review, and engineering standards