Backend engineering Intern

About Loop
We are a VC Funded company backed by some of the top silicon valley investors that is growing rapidly to serve 1000s of stores that have been waitlisted. Join us in this revolution to change the future of food

Mission
Loop is on a mission to fully automate restaurant management so that the restauranteur can focus on their passion of making great quality food. We are building a world where the food entrepreneur finds product market fit super fast, focuses on making great quality food and maintains a great relationship with their audience. Our goal is to use data, automation and ML to reduce their operational workload while making them more money. This will be achieved through a combination of deploying state of the art operational run books, experimentation driven optimisations, making deeply data driven decisions and bringing focus to metrics and behaviours that enable the restaurant to be successful at different levels of the stack. COVID has accelerated the digitisation of food service setting up for data integrations starting with digital ordering and convenience based consumer behaviour. Loop will combine this data with smart workflows that enable the restauranteur to make and execute the right decisions at the push of a button.

Founders
The team is made of Staff engineers, Senior Managers with a combined 25+ years of experience in Google, Uber, Flipkart and ShareChat. Read our cultural values here to understand our focus on building a world class team.

Sundar is an IITM CS Graduate. Previously, he built Traffic Models, Driver positioning algos that power ETAs for Uber, led teams that built the RecSys for Moj(Indian equivalent of TikTok with >100M users), and represented India in ACM ICPC World Finals.

Anand is a Bits Pilani CS Graduate. Previously he has worn hats including building the first supply chain management of Flipkart in 2012 and being in the first 100 eng, running a FinTech startup for 1.5 years, managing large teams eng at Uber and building the pickup experience for Uber.

Vinod is a Bits Pilani EE Graduate. Previously he was a senior manager at Google managing data science,analytics and operations functions for products across several verticals like assitant,search, trust.

Ideal Candidate
Some one with a growth mindset, who is passionate about startups, product curious and hungry to learn and grow would be an ideal fit.
We care about having fun while building and deeply believe that the peers we work with is the life blood of a start up.

We are looking for an engineer who is

1. Able to think of the ideal backend system architecture to solve a problem given infinite time, and is then able to come up with a plan to get there while building shorter term solutions that unblocks value for the customer.
2. Excited to talk to our customers to understand their pain points and brainstorm on solutions that can make their life better.
3. Loves thinking critically and solving a problem from the grounds up without being biased by existing solutions.

Previous Experience
We care more about hiring people who are really excellent than people with specific experience,
and we're happy to talk to candidates with unusual backgrounds. Reach out to us if it sounds interesting and we can explore if there are ways where we can be mutually beneficial to each other.

The technical stack is GCP + BigQuery + FastAPI + PostGresSql + ReactJS.

Knowledge of Python is a must and experience in ReactJS would be a bonus.

Full time offer
We would be converting the intern to a full time offer post the 3 month intern based on performance.