About the role
At Guac, we're solving grocery food waste with AI. We forecast exactly how much of each product will sell, helping grocery retailers order and produce the perfect amount of inventory — and we're building AI-native tools that put those forecasts directly into the hands of store operators and buyers.
The grocery industry is enormous (it accounts for 4% of GDP) — and grocery food waste is a huge cost to grocers' bottom lines, but also to our planet.
Today, we're working with major supermarket chains in the US and Canada, and we've scaled to 7-figures in ARR. We're backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, 1984 Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and angels from Open AI, Instacart, and Citadel Securities.
We've brought together an exceptional team from Palantir, BCG, Oxford, Cambridge, and MIT to solve intellectually challenging problems and tackle food insecurity and waste with technology.
We're looking for talented engineers in NYC to join our mission.
About the Role
As a Backend Engineer at Guac, you'll have real impact and ownership over technical decisions, strategy, and product direction. Your responsibilities will include:
- Design and build robust backend services that power mission-critical ordering and production planning products
- Build efficient ETL pipelines to handle billions of rows of data, multiple times per day
- Build AI-powered tools and agents for internal and customer use — exposing our data and forecasting systems via MCP servers, tool-use APIs, and similar protocols so that LLMs can reason over and act on grocery operations data
- Collaborate directly with customers' technical teams to understand and integrate with their IT infrastructure
- Help define how we leverage LLMs across the product surface, from agentic workflows to natural-language interfaces over our forecasts
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