Software Engineer (£45k-£60k + Equity) at Mealia · 💰 £45,000-£60,000
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July 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Job Title
Software Engineer
Salary
£45,000 - £60,000 + Equity
Company Description
Mealia is a high-growth AI startup reimagining the £1T grocery market by automating meal planning and shopping. Having hit #2 on the UK App Store and partnered with major supermarkets in the UK and US, Mealia uses agentic AI to optimize food choices for cost, health, and sustainability.
Job Description
As the fifth member of Mealia, you will own features end-to-end across a modern stack including React, React Native, and Ruby on Rails. You’ll work directly with the founders to scale a product already used by hundreds of thousands, building the future of autonomous grocery shopping in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
Location
Remote
Why this role is remarkable
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She will pick the best candidates from Jack's network.
The next step is to speak to Jack.
Job Title
Software Engineer
Salary
£45,000 - £60,000 + Equity
Company Description
Mealia is a high-growth AI startup reimagining the £1T grocery market by automating meal planning and shopping. Having hit #2 on the UK App Store and partnered with major supermarkets in the UK and US, Mealia uses agentic AI to optimize food choices for cost, health, and sustainability.
Job Description
As the fifth member of Mealia, you will own features end-to-end across a modern stack including React, React Native, and Ruby on Rails. You’ll work directly with the founders to scale a product already used by hundreds of thousands, building the future of autonomous grocery shopping in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.
Location
Remote
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a founding team as the 5th hire, working directly with the CEO and CTO to shape the product and engineering culture from the ground up.
- Massive traction and market fit: hit #2 on the UK App Store with millions of items already shopped through the platform for hundreds of thousands of users.
- High-impact ownership: you will have the autonomy to make architectural decisions and ship code that immediately reaches a global user base in a £1T industry.
- Design, build, and deploy full-stack features end-to-end, from database schema changes in PostgreSQL to the UI in React and React Native.
- Collaborate closely with the founding team to solve complex engineering challenges related to agentic AI and real-time grocery integrations.
- Lay the groundwork for Mealia’s engineering operations, ensuring the codebase is scalable, maintainable, and high-performing as the platform grows.
- 4+ years of professional full-stack experience with a strong proficiency in React (Vite) and TypeScript to build robust web and mobile applications.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous, high-speed startup environments where you prioritize user impact and shipping functional products over perfection.
- Comfortable working across the entire stack, including backend development with Ruby on Rails, and preferably having experience building or hacking on your own startups.
Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
- Jack's an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
- Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack's network.
- If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.
This isn't a trick. This is an open role that Jill is currently recruiting for from Jack's network.
Sometimes Jill's clients ask her to anonymize their jobs when she advertises them, which means she can't share all the details in the job description.
We appreciate this can make them look a bit suspect, but there isn't much we can do about it.
Give Jack a spin! You could land this role. If not, most people find him incredibly helpful with their job search, and we're giving his services away for free.