Founding Engineer

Loyalist enables hospitality businesses to foster deeper connections with their guests at scale

At Loyalist, we’re on a mission to help full-service restaurants personalize every guest interaction. Our platform helps operators understand their guests and leverage those insights to grow their business. We’re backed by Bling Capital, Floodgate, and world-class restaurant and restaurant tech operators.

As a senior full-stack engineer at Loyalist, you will lead the development of new product features, improve and optimize our platform as we scale, and shape our engineering and company culture. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team on the cutting edge of restaurant tech, working with some of the most exciting brands in the industry to define the future of the restaurant technology landscape.

This is a hybrid role based in Flatiron in NYC. In-Person required 4 days/week

What you will do

• Architect, build, test, and launch new features and products
• Build observability instrumentation and proactively look for optimizations + scaling bottlenecks
• Set engineering standards, best practices, and culture as the foundation for years of future growth
• Meet with clients to understand user workflows, pain points, and existing solutions
• Collaborate on product roadmap + design decisions with CEO + engineering team

Background

• 3-5 years full-time experience as a full-stack software engineer
• BS or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Track record of building products from 0 to 1 and making architectural and design decisions
• Interest in the hospitality, restaurant, or F&B industry

Skillset

• Proficient in Typescript + Python
• Deep familiarity with React and backend frameworks like Django, Rails, or Laravel
• Experience with SQL, data modeling, and database design
• Exceptional communication + ability to articulate technical concepts and tradeoffs
• Ownership mindset and ability to define engineering milestones and priorities

🚀 Why Loyalist?

• Opportunity to join an early team revolutionizing the restaurant industry; work on products that impact and enhance human connection
• Join a team that has a deep understanding of the space; Our team has worked in and operated at the best restaurants in the world (Eleven Madison Park, Blue Hill, Atelier Crenn, Momofuku)
• You get to build new products from the ground up, with many opportunities to interact directly with the customer
• We’re fresh off of a $3m+ capital raise from Bling Capital, Floodgate, and executives in the restaurant and restaurant tech space
• Competitive Salary range $150k-$170k, equity, and health insurance