Senior Software Engineer

Salary Competitive

All Gravy is the all-in-one employee app designed for front-line, hospitality, and retail workers. 🥞

The next generation of employees are used to apps like Instagram, TikTok and Spotify in their personal lives but when they go to work at a restaurant chain or retail store, they're met with software created before they were born. All Gravy is changing that. We're modernising the tools for frontline employees and transforming the experience into one that is engaging and motivating; making their lives easier from getting paid to developing their careers. We innovate on the whole employee journey: from being recruited, onboarded, and growing skills, to knowing when to work and connecting with co-workers. We already work with some of the most exciting brands in Northern Europe - Gail's, L’Osteria, Pizza Pilgrims, Honest Burgers, Ottolenghi, Dishoom, Q8, 7-Eleven, and Best Western.

We've grown 300% over the last year and are now accelerating our expansion further into new markets. Our team spans a wide range of nationalities and backgrounds, united by one mission: to shape the future for shift and gig workers everywhere. We're passionate, hard-working, and just getting started the best is genuinely yet to come. If you want to do meaningful work, move fast, and be part of a team that's changing an entire industry, we'd love to have you on board. 🚀

🤩 About the role

We are looking for an ambitious Senior Software Engineer who will be a pivotal member of building and scaling the most critical parts of our product. You will join our Workforce Management team, focused on the operational backbone that powers how our customers schedule, staff, and run their businesses every day. Workforce Management is at the heart of the All Gravy product, covering scheduling and shift management, time tracking, labour forecasting, and compliance. As a technical leader within the WFM domain, you will mentor other engineers, lead thorough code reviews, and drive best practices for performance, reliability, and code quality.

🎯 What You Will Do

The ideal candidate possesses a versatile skill set, demonstrating capability across the entire spectrum of software development at All Gravy, coupled with an appetite for owning a domain with real operational weight behind it.

Full-Stack Development: You will take ownership of features across the full application stack for the Workforce Management product, from the manager and employee-facing interfaces where schedules are built and shifts are picked up, to the robust, scalable back-end services and data layers that power them.
Domain Ownership: Design, build, and maintain the systems that underpin scheduling, time & attendance, labor cost management, and related workflows. WFM is a domain with real operational complexity (multi-location businesses, regional labor regulations, unpredictable demand), and you'll help us turn that complexity into an elegant product experience.
Cross-Team Collaboration: While dedicated to the Workforce Management team, you will work closely with Platform, Learning, and other product teams to ensure WFM integrates harmoniously with the rest of All Gravy's ecosystem, and contribute to shared standards and architectural decisions.
Mentorship and Leadership: Act as a technical leader within the WFM domain, providing guidance and mentorship to other engineers, conducting thorough code reviews, and driving best practices for performance, reliability, and code quality.

We have a full-fledged TypeScript-based tech stack in All Gravy which means our current developer team seamlessly switches between development tasks.

All Gravy is undergoing high growth hence the job and responsibilities will develop over time, and there will be plenty of opportunities for you to learn and grow.

🙌 You'll thrive here if you

We are looking for exceptional people with great energy and a good sense of humour. The ideal candidate will love to think about how to solve problems in an elegant way, however, given the pace we're operating at, will also be able to sometimes make pragmatic decisions.

You should enjoy working in the dynamic startup environment, like to initiate new projects but also get them over the line. We look for employees who like being part of a team, are real team players, and have a mindset of learning & growing.

5+ years of proven full-stack experience across React, React Native, modern JavaScript/TypeScript, and Node.js backend development.
Deep comfort working in domains where correctness matters schedules affect real people's lives and paychecks, and you think carefully about edge cases, data integrity, and user trust.
Ability to design and architect highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems.
Genuinely AI-native you can demonstrate concrete ways you have integrated AI tools into how you ship code, and you actively contribute to how your wider team adopts and improves its AI-assisted ways of working.
Experience working in complex operational domains such as scheduling, payroll, logistics, or ops tooling is a plus.
Fluent English, spoken and written.
Available during core Central European working hours, whether from our Copenhagen or London office or remotely.

An advantage if you have experience in:

NestJS
MongoDB

💎 Why All Gravy

Grow fast, for real. We promote from within, move quickly, and give you real responsibility from day one.
Top equipment. You'll receive all new equipment to do your best work
A culture that actually develops you. Honest feedback, active coaching, and the autonomy to experiment. We invest in you because your growth is our growth.
Work that matters. Your work will directly impact the daily lives of millions of frontline workers.
You'll work with people who've built, scaled, and won. Ex-founders, operators, all here because they want to do it again, bigger.
The good stuff too. Prime office location, team lunches, Friday bars, padel tournaments, wine tastings, offsites, top-tier equipment, and a fridge that's always stocked. We work hard and celebrate harder.

💡 Even if you do not tick every box on this page, you might be the perfect fit for the job! We treasure our learning culture and encourage all humble people to apply.

Perks and benefits

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Free coffee / tea

Flexible working hours

Social gatherings

Free office snacks

Near public transit

Free friday beers

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All Gravy: All the people stuff in one employee app - built for hospitality Hospitality is one of the largest employment sectors in Europe. It's also one of the most chaotic to operate. The average multi-site restaurant group or hotel brand manages hundreds of hourly workers across dozens of locations - none of whom sit at a desk, have a work email, or receive information through the same channel twice. The result is predictable. New starters show up on day one not knowing what to do. Training happens inconsistently, or not at all. Managers spend half their day answering the same questions on repeat. Communication happens in WhatsApp groups that the business doesn't own, can't audit, and can't control. Staff churn - already the highest of any industry, averaging 75% annually - gets worse. And operators have no way of knowing why. The tools that exist to solve this were built for office workers. They assume laptops, corporate email, and people who sit still. Hospitality doesn't work like that. All Gravy is the fix. We're a communications and learning app built specifically for multi-site hospitality operators - restaurant groups, hotel brands, contract caterers, quick-service chains. Our customers typically manage between 200 and 1,000 staff across multiple locations in the UK, Scandinavia, and Germany. The product gives operators one place to run everything people-related: Staff communications - a branded, structured feed that works like social media. Managers post to the right people by location, role, or team. Employees are notified. Everything is documented. No more WhatsApp chaos. Onboarding journeys - automated, role-specific sequences that start the moment a new hire is added to the system. They arrive on day one prepared, connected to the brand, and knowing what's expected of them. Training and learning - a full LMS designed for deskless workers, supporting both digital courses and in-person sessions, with attendance tracking, completion records, and automated reminders built in. Digital handbooks - a living, searchable library that employees access from their phone. Update once, everyone sees it instantly. No more outdated PDFs or laminated binders no one reads. AI assistant - trained on the operator's own content, not the internet. Employees get instant, accurate answers to questions about policies, procedures, and their role. Managers stop answering the same things over and over. The employee experience looks and feels like a social media app - because that's what people actually use. Adoption is high because the product meets people where they already are. The admin side is a web dashboard where operators build and manage everything centrally, with full visibility into engagement, training completion, onboarding progress, and team sentiment across every location. The problem is big. There are roughly 90 million deskless workers in Europe. Hospitality alone employs millions, with vacancy and churn rates that cost the sector billions in lost revenue every year. The tools available to operators haven't kept up with what the problem actually requires. The opportunity is clear. Operators who invest in their people's experience - making them feel informed, connected, and supported from day one - see measurably lower turnover, better training compliance, and lower management overhead. All Gravy makes that investment easy, scalable, and consistent across every location in a business. We've raised €5.8M+ to date, backed by Moonfire Ventures, Scale Capital, and a syndicate of angels including senior operators and investors from Google, Deliveroo, and Peakon. Our customers include some of the largest hospitality operators in Northern Europe. We're building the operating layer for the front-line hospitality workforce - the infrastructure that makes it possible to run a great team at scale, not just at one site, but across all of them.