Job Title:
Software Engineer
Location:
Hoxton, London
Start Date:
ASAP
Compensation:
Competitive Salary + Equity (4 year vest, 1 year cliff)
KAIKAKU Culture
We at KAIKAKU are transforming the restaurant industry, through a fully vertically integrated approach covering hardware, software and AI. We are firm believers in:
- Getting into the trenches with the tech you make. You are the user tester, customer success team, support staff, maintenance and technician.
- The power of generalists. We are not yet interested in specialisations. You must have broad interests in your area of engineering.
- Motivation through execution. You should thrive when you progress, not when you get to work on ‘fun stuff’.
- Rapid iteration. Not just buzzwords, but actually deploying and testing hardware changes on an hourly rate, through 3DP.
- No future-proofing. You will be
expected
to ship products that are missing features and do not work, and then fix them in production. If you are not ashamed of your work, you have shipped too late.
- Creating products for the customer
only
. We are not interested in making ‘cool’ or ‘gimmicky’ robots. We want to make the most effective, impressive, focused and useful tech in this space.
Please only apply if
all
of the above sounds right to you.
No experience requirements - we are more interested in ability to execute, than a long CV.
Your role will be in person, based in Hoxton, London.
Job Responsibilities
- Assist in developing our full stack of deployed software
- Improve the low-level embedded code running on a variety of microcontrollers and single board computers
- Create, maintain and own codebases for software deployed across a wide spectrum of applications, from robotics firmware and communications software, to full stack development, to cloud infrastructure
- Communicate and work effectively with engineers across other disciplines from mechanical hardware design, to mechatronics to controls, while working on complex mechatronics systems
- Support deployed software remotely and in person, maintaining high reliabilty and uptime
- Work with existing and future clients to understand their software pain points and develop these into focus requirements/bodies of work
Required Skills
- Strong experience with ROS (preferably ROS 2), with a keen appreciation and understanding of the hardware limitations and implications of deployed software, especially on resource constrained compute
- Significant experience and comfort working on embedded devices, across multiple microcontroller types
- Full comfort living with a headless Linux machine
- Some experience with full stack, preferably React or Typescript
Preferred Skills
- Generalist software engineering passion and skills
- Experience with full stack development, from front end UI/UX, to deployed server-less functions
- Some experience with database architecture or design (we use PostgreSQL)
What We Offer
- An opportunity to work on technology and see it deployed, sometimes just hours later
- Joining a high growth, VC backed startup on a scaling and deployment inflection point
- Significant autonomy and responsibility in your work
- A highly varied set of tasks, and learning opportunities
- Competitive salary + equity
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free lunches at Common Room (and other future restaurant acquisitions)
- Regular socials, pub visits and off-sites
