About Topanga
At Topanga, we’re transforming kitchen operations with AI-powered solutions that help leading commercial kitchens waste less and save more. Our products, including the award-winning ReusePass program and StreamLine, a food waste mitigation and workflow automation tool, are used by industry leaders to drive measurable impact and cost savings. Win. Win.
We’re an early-stage technology company with product-market fit, entering our next phase of explosive growth. We have a strong sense of mission and direction, accompanied by constant testing and iteration.
Our team is a passionate mix of technologists, foodies, designers, and problem solvers who believe that building efficient systems can create a future of abundance. We’re passionate about solving hard problems—through questioning, debate, and ultimately committing to a shared direction, we create solutions that matter.
What to Expect
Today, we're a remote-first team with a main office hub in LA, where the team goes in 2-3 days per week. The rest of our team is distributed across the U.S., with a growing presence in NYC. We strive to compensate and offer benefits that are above market for the given role and stage of the company. Pay may be a combination of salary, commission, and/or equity depending on role and seniority. Full time employees are eligible for health benefits and 401k enrollment.
You should expect a self-regulated PTO policy and a culture that promotes using at least three continuous weeks every year. (Yes, 12 days of camping with no cell service is encouraged—fresh air is good for us). We sign off at 2:30 p.m. on Fridays, observe long weekends, and respect that some days, you wake up and your head just ain’t in it.
We encourage each other's pursuit of hobbies, passions, and experiences outside of work. We acknowledge that careers tend to be zig-zags, not straight lines. This is great as long as the time spent working is fulfilling. Basically, our jobs do not define us, but they can add purpose.
The role
This role is a software and data engineering role on the StreamLine Label & Integrations team. This team is responsible for building integrations with third party systems and using humans and machines to label images of food coming off of StreamLine scales in commercial kitchens. The role will require API development using Python and AWS managed services as well as ELT development using Snowflake and Prefect. This role will work very closely with the Lead Software Engineer and Lead ML Engineer on the team.
Requirements
- At least 3 years experience in a Backend Software Engineering or Data Engineering Role
- Demonstrable skills building with AWS using services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, AppSync GraphQL, etc.
- Experience writing performant SQL queries against columnar data warehouse frameworks like Snowflake
- Preferred experience writing ELT/ETLs using an orchestration framework like Airflow or even better Prefect
- Preferred experience coding up AWS infrastructure using frameworks like CloudFormation or Terraform
What We Do
Topanga is an enterprise food-service technology company that creates real environmental and economic impact for culinary operations by reducing food and packaging waste.
Our flagship offering, ReusePass, is the leading track-and-trace reusables solution for culinary programs with a proven 98%+ return rate across 67+ dining programs in North America. Our newest product, StreamLine, is a smart scale with a one-tap interface and AI item recognition for frictionless production-optimization and food-waste mitigation.
Our team is a passionate mix of technologists, foodies, designers, and problem solvers who believe that building efficient systems can create a future of abundance.
