Farmstead

AI-powered, full-stack digital grocer that delivers fresh, locally sourced products in less than 60 mins.

< 10 Employees

< 10 Engineers

$5M - $10M Funding

Pre-Series A

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Farmstead is a new digital grocer that sources and delivers fresh, local food to customers in 60 minutes or less. With micro-hubs in the Bay Area that carry only carefully curated, quality products, we leverage AI to aggressively optimize our supply chain and reduce food waste costs, while also helping customers order just what they will actually consume. We've been growing seasonally at 20-25% MoM, and have fulfillment partnerships with Postmates. We're backed by Resolute Ventures, Social Capital, Artis Capital, Y Combinator, SV Angel and others.

Why join us?

We do most things from scratch, since there are very few usable tools out there to solve the problems we face.

We are full-stack on both product and operations, which means we are writing code for both consumers and operations staff to orchestrate all aspects of curating items, picking them from shelves into orders at our own warehouses, and delivering to doorsteps every day with our own logistics fleet and stack.

We are tech stack agnostic and very centered on finding compelling solutions to problems that have not been solved before in our space.
Metrics:

Rapidly growing at 25-30% MoM

60%+ cohort retention over 12 months

Almost contribution margin profitable in SF

Expanding outside the Bay Area in 2019
Full-time Team:

Values driven with an entrepreneurial bent

Each person runs their own department

Highly performant without sacrificing sanity or personal lives

Majority of team members have little children, so we are super productive when we are at work.
Our Values:

Take defensible risks without fear of negative consequences.

Be considerate.

Go further by learning together.

Engineering at Farmstead

Engineering team and processes

Engineering team is very flat, and runs a weekly sprint. CI/CD pipeline, ship multiple times a day, full code review of course. We are cognizant of the trade-off between tech debt and speed, which is highly relevant at this stage of our business.

Technical Challenges

We love that our codebase touches a variety of different problems, since we operate a complex, interlocked system that drives profitability every day.

At any given point in time, our eng team currently writes and maintains code that:

Improves and creates new and unique consumer-facing experiences on web and mobile to help them save time and money each week by getting their groceries automatically delivered.
Helps our buying team curate the best products to carry
Helps our operations team increase their efficiency
Helps Farmstead recruit and retain our delivery fleet by giving them a pleasant delivery experience

Projects you might work on

If someone adds organic bottled milk to their cart, what are the next ten items we should show them to increase the odds they remain a long-term customer of ours?
How can we increase perishable grocery margins by selecting the right products to buy at the right time from vendors with variable quality levels, for items that expire rapidly?
Given a scheduled 3 hour block of time and variable driver attendance, how do we increase route density for each delivery route?
What should the first version of our iOS app look and feel like?
If we add robotic picking, what needs to change operationally?

Tech stack

Ruby on Rails

React

iOS Development

Android