BlakBear
Software & Data Engineer
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🎯 Our Mission
1/3 of food is wasted, but why? Most food is still good to eat or cook at the expiry date, because the use-by dates are chosen to cover a worst-case scenario. They’re great for quality and safety, but cause £bns of waste. This decade, food will tell you how fresh it is, and the world will stop wasting food because of a fixed printed date.
We replace use-by dates and shelf-life testing with sensors that measure spoilage gas, and AI that predicts the remaining days of freshness. We invented this technology as scientists from Imperial College London, and we're using it to improve the whole supply chain, from food producers to households, and reduce the unbelievable amounts of waste caused by the 50-year-old system of destructive testing and printed expiry dates.
We are signing sales contracts with enterprise customers across Europe and North America, changing regulations and industry guidance as we go. Do you want to join BlakBear as we become the food industry standard?
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💼 The Role
We're looking for a sharp, curious, and ambitious Software & Data Engineer to join our team. You'll work directly with the CEO, CTO, and product team, owning GCP services, data pipelines, and back-end development.
You will have the opportunity to grow fast with the company’s significant growth plans over the next 12 months.
👤 Your Skills
Must haves:
- 2-8 years experience in the following:
- Designing and building APIs (FastAPI a plus)
- Setting up CI/CD pipelines
- Building and maintaining products through their full lifecycle (design → build → ship → operate → iterate)
- Building full-stack applications
- Building scalable ETL pipelines
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Solid grounding using GCP (preferred) or equivalent cloud provider.
Nice to have:
- Recent hands-on experience with agentic AI (e.g. building with LLM agents, tool use, or agent frameworks)
- Experience in a startup or small-team environment where you've worn multiple hats
- Good design taste
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Personality:
- Extremely hardworking with keen desire to learn rapidly
- Gives and receives transparent feedback
- Motivated to solve hard problems
- Team player who collaborates well with others
- Self-aware and emotionally intelligent
📍 Location
This is an on-site role, Monday to Friday at our HQ in Tower Bridge, London (UK).
🤝 Benefits
- 📈 Competitive salary and shares in BlakBear Ltd
- 🩺 Top tier private healthcare, fully covered
- 🍉 Free healthy snacks available in the office
- 👥 Impactful work, moving the needle on one of the great industries of humanity
- 💙 Mental health support and counselling
- 🌴 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- 🏘️ In the office 5 days per week at our London HQ, with trips to customer sites in Europe and North America.
- 🕹️ Monthly socials such as dinners, VR experiences, or games nights
- 🎓 Team skill building events, such as 3D Printing Day and AI Hackathon
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