Product-Minded Software Engineer Lead

About Kaso

KASO is the world's first AI-powered group purchasing (GPO) for the food industry.
We build AI agents to aggregate demand from restaurants and negotiate chain-level pricing with food suppliers.

We started with KASO Order, moving thousands of restaurant-supplier orders from WhatsApp and phone calls into clean, reliable digital workflows which are used by 5000+ restaurants like Burger King, Tim Hortons, Caribou Coffee and many more.

We are backed by Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, MSA Capital, Seedra, Spades and others alongside founders from Careem, Talabat, Delivery Hero, Tabby, and more. 

About the role

You’ll contribute to the technical backbone that turns a traditionally ops-heavy GPO business into a scalable software platform. The goal is to make it possible for independent restaurants to buy with the power of a chain, while reducing reliance on manual operations. 

• The problem you'll own: Replace manual, people-dependent procurement workflows with trustworthy software that is accurate, scalable, and self-serve
• The systems you'll build: 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
• The change you’ll drive: Turn messy food procurement processes into reliable product workflows
• What success looks like: The business scales without losing pricing accuracy, order integrity, or operational trust, and the team can serve more restaurants with less manual work

Must have

• 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

Nice to have 

• 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

Perks

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Real AI work in production, not prototypes
• A business past product-market fit and into scaling
• Low-ego, high-ownership team culture
• Direct access to founder and leadership team