Overview
About us
Food waste is a $1 trillion problem – costing the world over 1% of global GDP. We’re dead set on solving the problem and looking for people to help us achieve our mission. We, at Winnow, believe that food is far too valuable to waste, and that technology can transform the way we produce food. Our team is made of people who all share a passion for food and technology.
Winnow was founded in London in 2013 to help the hospitality industry prevent food waste through internet of things tools in the kitchen. We have worked with hundreds of sites and are operating in over 25 countries around the world supported by our offices in London and Singapore. We are a rapidly growing company with a strong base of clients who are rolling out our system globally. We have blue-chip customers including Accor Hotels, IKEA, IHG, Marriott, Compass Group and many others.
Winnow’s clients on average reduce waste by over 50% by value and sustain savings. Winnow has now worked with hundreds of sites to reduce food waste, including hotels, universities and schools, staff restaurants, event/hospitality kitchens, buffets, pubs, and high street restaurants. Where the system is permanently adopted, pre-consumer waste value is reduced by 50% – 70% over 2 – 12 months, and maintained at these levels, with no detrimental impact to the perceived quality or value of the offer to their customers, and a net saving of staff time due to reduced food preparation and waste handling. This represents a typical improvement of food cost savings of 3% to 8%, commonly a 40%+ increase in profitability for restaurants. Watch our short videos on our YouTube channel to see the system in action.
We are passionate about living our values and place them at the centre of everything we do. We are excited about likeminded talent who share these values, joining us in our mission:
Equal parts head and heart. We’re both passionate and measured. We carefully balance the need for quick solutions and pragmatism with the ability to step back, take in the bigger picture and build for the long term.
Bravely honest. With each other, that means we’re a transparent organisation where healthy, respectful debate is encouraged. With our customers, we challenge them if we don’t think they’re achieving their goals, whether they be environmental or financial.
People of action. Done is better than perfect, and we learn by boldly doing then rapidly improving. We’re breaking new ground, so we know things might go wrong. But we judge ourselves and each other on our reaction and our resilience.
Bound by food. We’re a diverse bunch, but our belief in the value of food is the common thread in everything we do. With each other, we celebrate through our love and respect for food. With our customers, it means we work hard to develop creative tools to make it easy for chefs to value food.
Hungry and humble. Our product is revolutionary, our people are impressive, and we’re hungry for change. But, we’re just the catalyst for a bigger movement. We stay humble regardless of our success, and make chefs the heroes in this journey.
This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing start-up (and one of Wired’s top 100 start-ups in Europe) and help us propel our growth at what is truly the most exciting and dynamic points in time in our business. You will work alongside a driven team who are motivated by building an exciting business and leaving the world a better place than we found it.
About the role
We are looking for an Android Developer to bolster our small Android development team and help us progress faster through our product backlog.
You will also help us progressively move our solutions to the cutting edge.
Experience programming Java & Kotlin for Android using Android Studio
Experience in using Android Jetpack libraries and guideliness
Some exposure to Clean Code Architecture
Understanding of event driven programming (e.g. Event Bus)
Solid understanding of the Android framework and the support libraries.
Experience in performance tuning of applications (written examples).
Any IoT, Bluetooth or USB serial communication experience would be good.
Confident refactoring of legacy code.
Managing high fragmentation solutions.
Relational database systems using SQL and Room.
Unit test writing using JUnit.
Experience working on an Agile-Scrum software development team.
Experience with the following libraries will be useful: Retrofit, OkHttp, Android Jetpack
Requirements
Personal attributes
Self starter. Highly motivated.
Team player who can collaborate and agree on design.
Someone who knows how to follow best practices and can operate independently, producing high quality solutions.
Happy to do Maintenance work as well as refactoring and writing new code.
Adapt to evolving software processes.
Good communicator.
Our shared values
You are both passionate and measured. You carefully balance the need for quick solutions and pragmatism with the ability to step back, take in the bigger picture and build for the long term. You listen to and act on what your customers need
You are transparent in approach and enjoy healthy, respectful debate. You work hard to build open and honest collaborative relationships
You get things done at pace and seek to continually improve. Your customers see you as someone who gets things done, and they want you on their team
You are passionate about the value of food and are committed to playing an active role in fight against food waste
You are humble in approach and quick to pitch in if you see someone struggling, regardless of the task
Benefits
Competitive base salary and sales incentive programme
Company stock options package
Eligible for discretionary annual bonus
Subsidised health insurance
Life insurance
We finish work on Fridays at 3pm in every Winnow office around the globe
Pension scheme
2 Wellness hours per month, plus a £20 monthly wellness allowance
Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 helpline for your wellbeing
25 days of paid vacation time (plus the option to buy a further 5 days annual leave) in addition to national holidays
You will love what you do – waking up every day solving one of the biggest social problems of our generation
Committed team members with broad experience who share a common passion to build a world class business
