Build the layerbetween every diner and every restaurant.

We are pre-seed, founder-led, and hiring the team that ships V1. All roles below are founder equity, no cash compensation until pre-seed funding closes. Read that line again before applying.

Compensation

Founder equity, no cash until pre-seed.

Vesting

4 years, 1 year cliff. Half time, half milestones.

Bar

Senior. Builders. People who finish.

Open roles

Five roles. The CTO is hire #1 and unlocks the rest.

Full-time

Chicago or remote (US)

15–25% founder equity

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Own every technical decision: architecture, stack, infrastructure, hiring, and the early codebase. Ship Phase 1 in 16 weeks. Build the engineering team behind it.

What you bring

—10+ years engineering, including 3+ in a senior or staff role.
—Shipped consumer products at scale on web, mobile, or both.
—Direct experience with at least one of: production ML systems, recommender systems, ranking and search, or large-scale event pipelines.
—Built from zero before. Prior startup experience strongly preferred.
—Hiring experience. Will be the engineering recruiter through the first 5–10 hires.

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Full-time

Chicago or remote (US)

1.0–2.5% founder equity

Founding Engineer (Full-Stack)

The second engineering hire. Ship features across the diner web app, the restaurant console, and the backend. Own at least one major component end to end.

What you bring

—5+ years of professional software engineering.
—Strong full-stack: React or Next.js front-end, Node or Python back-end.
—Cloud experience, ideally AWS.
—Track record of shipping features end to end without supervision.
—Startup mindset. Comfortable with ambiguity and operational work.

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Full-time (part-time start acceptable)

Chicago or remote (US)

1.0–3.0% founder equity

Founding ML Engineer

Own the personalization layer end to end. Design and ship the ranking, recommendation, and embeddings systems that learn each diner from every interaction.

What you bring

—4+ years applied ML, including 2+ in production.
—Hands-on with at least one of: recommender systems, ranking, embeddings retrieval.
—Strong Python. Comfortable with PyTorch or equivalent.
—Comfortable across the lifecycle: training, evaluation, serving, monitoring.
—Pragmatic. Ship a 75-percent solution this quarter, not a perfect one next year.

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Full-time

Chicago

1.0–2.5% founder equity

Founding Restaurant Partnerships Lead

Sign the first 15 to 25 pilot restaurants in Chicago. Manage onboarding and the relationship. Run the structured pilot study. Build the partnership playbook.

What you bring

—5+ years restaurant-adjacent: restaurant tech sales, hospitality, ops, or ownership.
—Existing Chicago network in fine dining or hospitality.
—Has personally closed B2B SaaS or restaurant tech deals.
—Comfortable as the first business hire — sales, success, and account management in one role.
—Excellent written communicator. Will produce the case study material.

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Part-time to full-time

Chicago or remote (US)

0.25–1.0% founder equity

Founding Product Designer

Own the visual identity, the brand system, and the product UI. Design the diner web app, the restaurant console, and the marketing site.

What you bring

—5+ years product design, with significant time on consumer mobile or web.
—Strong portfolio. Lead from research through visual.
—Has shipped 0-to-1 products under unclear specs and tight timelines.
—Works fast. Iterates with engineering. Knows when to push back and when to ship.

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What this is not

Not a contract role. Not a side project. Not a paycheck. Until pre-seed closes, you are paid in equity and conviction. If your financial situation does not support that, this is not the right time for you to take this on.