Fullstack Developer

About Craft My Plate

Craft My Plate is on a mission to transform how people plan and enjoy food at small to mid-sized gatherings.Our dynamic platter system lets users customize menus, adjust for guest count, and receive high-quality convenience on-time.

With strong early traction, a scalable ops model, and a category-defining product, we are building the most loved brand in the bulk food delivery space.

Role Overview

As our Culinary Product Lead, you will drive the vision, structure, and execution of the core operations. t’s a strategic and operational product role that combines customer satisfaction, pricing logic, kitchen coordination, and its operations. You’ll translate customer needs into delightful, scalable platter offerings, and ensure that what we promise is what we deliver — efficiently and profitably.

This role sits at the intersection of product, culinary, and operations, working with the founders, kitchen team, data analysts, and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

🧠 Platter Design & Menu Innovation

• Create modular platter structures across cuisines (North Indian, South Indian, Pan-Asian, etc.) based on consumption trends, price brackets, and guest count patterns.
• Define item combinations that balance taste, texture, variety, and cost-effectiveness.
• Regularly introduce new dishes, festive menus, and experimental platters while ensuring operational feasibility.

📐 Portion Planning & Pricing Strategy

• Build logic for portion sizes per dish, per guest, and per meal occasion.
• Develop scalable pricing structures that are intuitive for customers and profitable for the business.
• Conduct competitive analysis across catering and dine-in menus to find sweet spots in price-value.

💸 Food Costing & Profitability

• Work with procurement and kitchen leads to map real-time ingredient costs.
• Continuously improve Gross Margin per platter through smart substitution, waste reduction, and batch efficiencies.
• Track and optimize per-order kitchen production cost vs customer pricing.

🔁 Customer Feedback & Menu Optimization

• Set up a feedback loop to track post-delivery satisfaction by item and platter.
• Analyze cuisine-wise drop-off rates, reorder trends, and complaints to make menu decisions.
• Own A/B testing of new dishes, customizations, and pricing packages.

🍳 Kitchen Collaboration & SOP Building

• Work with the culinary team to document SOPs for plating, portioning, packaging, and delivery time prep.
• Define how new dishes should be produced to ensure consistency across different chefs and time slots.
• Standardize kitchen production playbooks across categories to reduce dependency on individual cooks.

📦 Fulfillment & Delivery Readiness

• Collaborate with packaging & delivery teams to ensure platters are dispatched in a way that preserves quality and presentation.
• Solve for real-world issues like gravy spillage, soggy items, hot/cold mix-ups, and last-mile timing.
• Define item “deliverability” score during product design.

📊 Insights & Decision-Making

• Use data from orders, costs, feedback, and ops to define what goes on the menu.
• Build dashboards with analyst support for real-time menu performance tracking.

Ideal Candidate

• 3 – 8+ years of experience in F&B innovation, culinary product strategy, or kitchen operations
• Strong understanding of menu design, item selection, and cost-volume-profit analysis
• Has worked closely with chefs or kitchen teams in high-volume environments (cloud kitchens, catering, QSR, or hospitality)
• Passionate about food — understands flavor, customer preferences, and product-market fit for meals
• Analytical thinker who loves solving taste-cost-ops tradeoffs with scalable systems
• Comfortable rolling up sleeves to walk the kitchen floor, try the food, tweak the portions, and talk to delivery staff

Bonus Points For

• Experience in startups or early-stage ventures
• Exposure to delivery-first businesses (Zomato, Swiggy, cloud kitchens, etc.)
• Culinary education or professional kitchen exposure
• Working knowledge of cost sheets, food costing software, or ERP tools

What You’ll Get

• A seat at the table to define what India eats during life’s most memorable moments
• Opportunity to work across disciplines — food, tech, logistics, and design
• Competitive salary with potential for equity (ESOPs)

• Fast-paced, execution-first culture with direct access to the founding team

Vice President (Product Management) - Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform

About Merito :-

- We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done.

- The company is founded by a team consisting of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.

About Our Client :

- Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online.

- Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.

- Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.

- We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.

Job Description :-

Here we're shaping the future of the creator economy to realize our dream of creating a world with no boring jobs.

We are looking for an experienced Vice President, Product Management to lead and own our Product strategy and execution to drive our business goals. As our VP, Product, you will lead the product management team to determine priorities across PODs, develop the product roadmap, and lead its execution, in partnership with our Product Development, Engineering, Sales and Marketing teams.

Our work environment is fast-paced, with a collaborative atmosphere. We are passionate about delivering innovations that empower Creators to become Entrepreneurs and realize their full potential. We are looking for a Product leader to bring in and instill a philosophy for how we work and deliver world-class products.

Our Product Management team's core mission is to delight customers resulting in Product Led Growth. We obsessively seek to understand customers' perspectives, have a bias toward data-driven action, and can break down complex problems into steps that drive product roadmaps. Product managers also serve as product owners, leading product teams and driving cross-functional collaboration on a day-to-day basis.

We value the following traits in our product management leaders:

- Stewards: We put the needs of our customers and our business ahead of our own egos

- Leaders: We lead by example, inspiring and motivating those around us

- Hi-Lo: We are both strategic and hands-on, detail-oriented when necessary.

- Generalists: We are equally comfortable working on all parts of the product stack

- Evidence-driven: We base our ideas on data and measure the results of those ideas.

- Resource-aware: We are resource-efficient in everything we do.

Responsibilities :-

- Lead and evangelize as we execute on our product vision and product strategy across the company

- Set up processes that ensure smooth coordination between the Product team with other teams

- Drive growth product initiatives to existing services

- Review business and product results regularly with leadership, suggesting changes to the business or product plans.

- Manage, motivate, coach, and develop a team of product managers.

- Coordinate roadmaps across teams

- Manage requirement and design reviews

- Collaborate with cross-functional peers to solve complex problems.

Requirements :-

- Passion and alignment with our core vision of A world with no boring jobs

- 3+ years product management experience, ideally with previous VP-level responsibilities

- Work history in both core product development (e.g. product/market fit) and growth product initiatives (e.g. SEO, funnel optimization)

- Consumer SaaS product experience as well as experience in one of the following areas: E- Commerce and E-Learning, digital content and community.

- Experience with SEO, growth product execution, content strategy development

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

Are you convinced that the people are the most invaluable part of all organizations? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

1. Scour the ends of planet earth in search of solid personalities and technical skill sets that will flourish within Blok.
2. Act as a brand ambassador for Blok. Strive to provide a candidate experience that is not Blok-centric, but rather candidate-centric. We may not work with all candidates, but all should have positive impressions about Blok.
3. Evaluate candidates within their own unique context. Always bear in mind that people have their own unique stories.
4. Not be limited by our current ways of sourcing candidates. Find new ways. Create them if necessary. Widen the range whenever possible.
5. Work together with interviewers from the technology team to accurately determine candidates’ technical expertise.
6. Travel (Covid-permitting!) to places that become major sources of recruitment, both to conduct real-time interviews and follow-up with onboarded talents.
   Requirements

1. English is an absolute must. An increasing percentage of our candidates use English as their language of preference.
2. Energy. Quickly absorb Blok's unique energy, and exert that energy in your communication with potential recruits. You are, after all, an outward-facing representative of Blok, a startup that is a pioneer in the ultra-fast grocery delivery industry.
3. Resilience, because often you’ll get hyped about a potential candidate, but for one of many valid reasons, it may not work out. Remember that matching job-seekers with employers is after all a rather complicated matching process.
4. We should know the rules to win the war for talent. Bear in mind legislative processes and cross-cultural differences.
5. Previous background in talent acquisition, especially in early-stage technology-first startups would be a strong advantage.
6. The ability to evaluate technical skills is preferred, but not an absolute requirement.
   
   Who You Are

1. A visionary, who is invested in the vision of making Blok a world-class, people-centric organization.
2. An empath, who sees the success of their organization and its people as their own success.
3. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
4. A doer, who takes initiative regardless of boundaries and works well in a team.