We are Foodla, a food-tech startup that creates a marketplace for local organic goods, connected with a CMS for producers. We are looking for a driven and self-going full-stack developer who wants to take on the role as CTO/Tech lead at Foodla, become part of our core team as a co-founder, and together with us work towards simplifying, improving and changing the local food market with the grand ambition to become a global game changer and ultimately save the world while doing so…

Foodla

ˈfooodlaaa/

noun

1. 1. When local food producers finally have an online marketplace to trade. 

Who are we?

We are Foodla, a food-tech startup that has developed a peer-to-peer marketplace for local organic goods. But we also connect this marketplace with a clever content management system for producers — providing them with the tools and channels that allows them to become more efficient market players and not only producers.

In this way, Foodla becomes more than a marketplace, it becomes an infrastructure for a more diverse and healthy wholefoods market. Our vision is to empower every local food producer with access to a world class platform for selling their produce -- reaching out through our marketplace, their own optimized channels as well as through Foodla-powered marketplaces integrated in more niched communities.

The team consists of John, serial entrepreneur with double degree from Linköping University – experienced in sales, fundraising and business development; Rickard, who has been studying and researching for 5 years at Stanford University. This is his fourth company, and he has previously co-founded Neoreach, now a multimillion dollar company – with experience in computer science, app-development, mathematics, algorithm building and AI; and Ingrid, a Cornell-educated agri-tech expert, who are currently exploring the possibilities for Foodla at her home turf — New York, and with industry experience from the agriculture market.

What have we accomplished till now?

• We started Foodla in January 2018
• We have developed a marketplace-app for both iOS and Android.
• We have developed an extension of the app that can be integrated into producers own channels.
• We have 1000 created accounts, with 80 sellers selling over 500 products through the marketplace, as well as 8 integrated producers with 1500 visitors per month through Foodla integrated channels. 
• We have been a part of Sting Accelerate 2018 (sting.co)
• And we have secured a first round of seed-capital. 

What’s our next challenge?

Foodla is a Startup in rapid motion and our service continues to grow and develop after market needs, so there are many exciting technical challenges ahead of us. The first is to get to know, and continue the development of, our content management tool currently sold to producers. 

Who are we looking for? 

We are looking for a driven and self-going full-stack developer who wants to take on the role as CTO/Tech lead at Foodla, become part of our core team, and together with us work towards simplifying, improving and changing the local food market with the grand ambition to become a global game changer and ultimately save the world while doing so… 

As CTO you will be responsible for the day to day maintenance of the platform as well as its further development. You will act as product owner, as well as planning, prioritizing, and making decisions regarding our product roadmap. 

Our stack is:

• RethinkDB database
• Phoenix/Elixir server
• ReactNative and React front-end
• …. But should you be a driven, ambitious, and experienced full-stack developer we invite you to apply!

Why join our team?

• We are an ambitious and diverse team from Stanford, Cornell, and Sweden with several prior achievements behind us, with strong networks in both Sweden and the US, and with substantial business development, sales and product development experience.
• We are not afraid for, and deeply encourage, experimentation and trying out ideas – a solution can rarely be thought out, it has to be acted out…
• We are especially looking for you who are interested in a co-founder position and ownership – in a Sting-backed company with a developed platform, paying customers, and with an initial seed-round in place. 
• We are open for you starting to work part-time – in that way we can get to know each other and see how we fit together as a team.

Sounds interesting? Reach out to us and we’ll grab a coffee to talk more!

John Gabrielsson, CEO

Foodla team.