Why BetterBasket?

Are you a problem solver with a drive for innovation and a desire to lead the retail revolution?

Join our dynamic team at BetterBasket and be a critical part of our mission in revolutionizing the massive $800bn grocery industry.

What are you up to?

BetterBasket is developing the first fully integrated pricing solution for grocers, coming from our founders’ experience launching Uber Eats’ global grocery delivery platform. We’re working on everything from pricing algorithms to custom digital price tags in order to create a revolutionary product for retailers.
We’re already working with top 100 international grocers in North America and LatAm on dynamic pricing and market data, and from day one you’ll be working closely with leaders and subject matter experts at our customers on their top priorities.
BetterBasket is backed by top investors like Y Combinator and Aito Capital as well as founders and C-suite executives at YouTube, Uber, Amazon, Tesco, and GoodRx.
Our work environment is collaborative and inclusive, fostering growth and learning. If you’re eager to be part of a fast-moving, innovative team that values your development, we want you on our team.

What technologies do you use?

Core Competencies

• Python (ML libraries, concurrency)

• HTTP/REST API

• Javascript (Typescript, React, Node)

• SQL (Locks, Stored Procedures)

• Cloud / DevOps (Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis)

Nice to Have

• Product design (Figma)

• Inference at scale

• Scraping (Scrapy, Selenium)

• Wireless Communication Protocols

What can I work on?

BetterBasket is developing the first fully integrated pricing solution for grocers. Problems that you could work on as a hands-on founding engineer include but are not limited to:

How can we extract and classify data at scale from online stores towards a centralized product knowledge graph?
How can we maximize profits for a grocer by modeling competitive prices, historical sales data, elasticity estimates, and external variables?
How can price changes be triggered and performed automatically?
What’s the best way to summarize and present the results of our actions?

What’s in it for me?

• Take ownership of products that will revolutionize the grocery industry

• Collaborate with a tight-knit team of talented builders

• Work closely with customers from day 1 and see the results of your work

• Launch products that directly impact people’s lives

• Work with the co-founders daily in-person in SF

• Competitive salary, equity, health insurance

If you’ve gotten this far and our culture/tech resonate with you, we want you to apply. Submit your application by setting 77 as your years of coding experience and we’ll fast track your application with an interview directly.

BetterBasket (YC W24) jobs

Founding Engineer