Symphony

Symphony delivers ready-to-eat meals throughout Europe (think pesto pasta, chili con carne, veggie bowl) 100% custom-made to the user's taste and preferences. Hardware side, we receive a recipe from the user, prepare and ship it (average price is 7€). Recipes are made out of a catalog of 500 ingredients (that will keep on growing over time). Software side, we provide a sort of Google Maps of the space of all possible recipes (one recipe = one location). Users browse the space by modifying recipes (adding/removing/resizing ingredients) and can plant flags by leaving a comment, suggesting a title, adding the recipe to a playlist, or simply ordering it and sharing their experience. Think of Symphony as a collaborative effort to explore all the most attention-worthy recipes (from mainstream to super niche). We also apply machine learning from [area on the map] to [property of interest] to model users' preferences and recipe properties (e.g. naming, style, geo and culturo influence, diet, …), which is then used to make recommendations, create enhancement tools (e.g. decrease carbs, apply a taste profile, substitute a given ingredient), cluster recipes, and broadly speaking, automate the process of discovery and annotation of the space. We finished a beta-testing phase in Paris, and are looking to open to the whole of France, Belgium and Spain within 2 months. The bulk of the website is functional, but a lot remains. You will be its primary and lead maintainer. The work is 70% ReactJS, 30% API/NextJS/MongoDB/AWS-deployment. We exchange daily on what needs to be done with a combination of voice, instant messaging and issue tracking. Timezone difference should not be a problem as long as we manage to intersect a few hours a day. We will decide together what positions to hire next to complement the team.