Careers @ Yummly  Jump to open positions

Why Yummly?
Yummly began with Dave’s intense dislike of both mustard and mayonnaise and a love of cooking. After witnessing the rise of personalized experiences such as Netflix, Pandora, Amazon and more, and becoming increasingly frustrated with online cooking sites, Dave decided the online food world needed significant innovation and he was going to do something about it.

Why can’t a site learn what I like and don’t like to eat? Why do I need to go to all these different websites to find and discover recipes? Why isn’t there a utility that brings all of my kitchen use cases (finding, organizing, shopping, cooking) together?

Yummly’s vision is ambitious:

• Unlock the power of food, data and technology – essentially mapping the food genome
• Build the digital kitchen platform and innovate on the activities that surround the kitchen
• Enable understanding, personalization, seamless interconnectivity, utility
• Empower the home cook

We’re on the path to building something great, but there’s a long way to go. Some of the real problems we are solving that we’d like your help with:

• Make computers understand every aspect of food and turn that into useful consumer products
• Discovering every recipe on the web and understanding the recipe in it’s entirety
• Find the best chocolate chip cookie recipe from the tens of thousands of cookie recipes and determine how to display it
• Understand the taste preferences of our users and their families

Do you want to help us get there?

The Opportunity
Food is a $1.3 trillion industry and accounts for 10% of GDP – and that’s only in the U.S! The decision about what to purchase at the grocery store is increasingly happening before getting there, and almost all consumers are online. There is no online destination for food and there will be a $1B online tech business in this space. Yummly will be that company.

There’s more than the huge market opportunity. This is a unique time to join Yummly – we are only 10 people with the fastest growing food site in the world (already have over 4M monthly unique visitors and 2M Facebook fans after 1 year). We are funded by a team of tier-one investors who are as passionate about the opportunity as we are.

The Team & Culture
With all this in place, we are putting together the core team that will own, define and build Yummly. In other words, we are looking for people who want to have a huge impact at an early startup with the goal of giving these people enormous freedom to plug in and do awesome stuff.

Joining Yummly is joining a small, fun-loving team of friends all passionate about food – with an amazing office (coming soon) in downtown Redwood City, great compensation and benefits and all the usual startup perks.

It’s the startup dream – small team, growing fast, making a huge impact, doing what you love, good times, great people, solving unique and challenging problems, while taking on a huge market that needs our help.

Are you up for it?

Check out what people are saying about Yummly

Open Positions
Culinary Software Engineer – UI
Culinary Software Engineer – Search, Data and Systems
Product Manager
Lead Designer
QA Engineer
Head of Marketing

We are always looking for great folks to solve difficult problems. If Yummly sounds like the right place for you and you don’t see a position open send us an email.

Culinary Software Engineer – UI

As a Culinary Software Engineer – UI, you will work on making the Yummly website the most functional and beautiful tool for home cooks around the world, with a focus on usability, speed, and engagement. More…

Culinary Software Engineer – Search, Data and Systems

As a Culinary Software Engineer – Search, Data and Systems, you will work on the core of the system: the food database; search; APIs; web crawling; ad serving; and much more. You may be asked to make the recipe search scale 10x; to build a web crawler that will find every recipe in the world; to collect and analyze fine-grained user-behavior metrics; to build automated testing and deployment tools; and to extend our AWS-based cloud infrastructure to scale seamlessly and to serve worldwide traffic. More…

Product Manager

Our team ships high quality products quickly. We want to build measurably successful products that are delightful and useful for users. As a product manager, you will be involved in every aspect of product development from understanding our users, generating ideas, prioritizing the roadmap, creating thorough product specs, and executing new projects. You will work with our entire team of developers, designers, researchers, and others. More…

Lead Designer

You will not simply be picking fonts and colors. You will be helping to create a beautiful website and mobile apps. We want to make Yummly the most useful, fun, and delightful online food experience in the world. More…

QA Engineer

As our QA Engineer, you will design and implement automated test suites for every feature and subsystem of Yummly. You should have a talent for breaking things and a passion for making them break differently every day. The Yummly system consist of web apps, a search engine, and numerous behind-the-scenes components, and your job will be to test, and automate testing, all of them. More information and application.

Head of Marketing

The Head of Marketing must have a proven track record in managing the creative expression and marketing strategy of leading brands and/or businesses online that resulted in clear business achievements for the related brand. More information and application.