Platform Engineer -- Farm2Chef & Protein Pool Matching Engine (VK Capital Ventures)
Job Description
Job Description
About VK Capital Ventures Inc. runs Travel Villa Kitchen — a Houston chef co-op, cooking-class and private-dinner company (plus Six Rows Coffee and Farm2Chef, our farmer-chef marketplace). We are Human First service practitioners: healthy communication and people who are happy and emotionally safe in service is how we work — including in the codebase. We are hiring a Platform Engineer to build Farm2Chef's features and the Protein Pool matching engine: the software that connects farmers, chefs, and households across Harris County. Responsibilities - Build Farm2Chef features end-to-end: chef and farm directories, matching flows, bookings, and the job board - Build the Protein Pool matching engine (households → nearest rancher, allocation math) with the Data Science team - Own release discipline for the platform: tested changes, verified deploys, no silent breakage - Work from real operating data — your users are our chefs, farmers, and households, and their feedback reaches you directly - Document what you build so the next engineer (and our operators) can run it Qualifications - Professional software engineering experience shipping web platform features end-to-end - Fluency with modern web stacks, APIs, and data modeling; comfort owning a feature from spec to production - Testing and QA discipline — you verify before you call it done - Marketplace, matching, or geospatial/ZIP-level product experience a strong plus - Bilingual English/Spanish a plus Schedule Full-time, standard business hours; release windows coordinated with the operating calendar. Benefits - $120,000/yr base (planning base from the hiring-suite budget, below the BLS Software Developers median of $131,450) - First platform seat: your architecture decisions shape the company - A written role SOP and growth path from day one
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