OLIO is the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app, and our mission is to solve the problem of food
waste in the home & local community, at scale. We do this by connecting anyone with spare food – which can be
households or food businesses – with neighbours living nearby who would like it. Globally, over one third of all the
food we produce gets thrown away, which is worth over $1 trillion; and in a country like the UK half of all food waste
takes place in the home. OLIO solves this problem with our award-winning mobile & web app.
Over the past 7 years OLIO has grown from a local initiative in North London to a global movement. We now have
just under 5 million users who have given away 34 million portions of food, in 60 countries. OLIOers have also given
away 3 million household items in our non-food section.
Underpinning OLIO’s incredible growth has been our volunteer programme, with over 75,000 people reaching out to
spread the word about OLIO in their local community. We also work with over 4,500 business locations across the UK
via our Food Waste Heroes Programme to enable them to have zero food waste locations.
We have a bold ambition to have 1 billion OLIOers by 2030, given that reducing food waste has been identified by
Project Drawdown as the #1 most important thing humanity can do to mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis.
Our work has been widely recognized, most notably by the United Nations who highlighted OLIO as a "beacon” for
the world, and by Vivatech who awarded OLIO "Next European Unicorn".
https://olioex.com/about/our-impact/
Our ideal candidate will first and foremost be as passionate about our mission as we are! In addition to this, you will
have the following experience and skills:
o A proven track record developing large scale Ruby-On-Rails applications
o Familiarisation with using and improving our build and automation tools
o Unit and integration testing new features
o Evaluating new technologies and seeing if/how they could benefit our products and processes
o Ability to keep up to date with newer versions of JavaScript as new features become available
o A ‘product manager’ mind-set, which means you seek to improve specs and designs where possible
o Ability to work with/learn new technologies/languages/frameworks as they arise
All OLIO team members share these attributes:
o Mission obsessed
o Self-starters with a ‘can-do’ attitude
o Resourceful and creative
o Thorough, but able to move quickly and decisively
o A ruthless ability to prioritise
o Excellent communication skills
o Diverse (18 nationalities, 21% LGBTQT+, early 20s to 45+)
o Fun to work with ☺
In order to accelerate OLIO to its next level in growth and impact, we are recruiting new Ruby-on-Rails Developers.
You will be joining one of the teams in our tech team.
We're looking for a Senior Ruby-On-Rails developer to help continue to grow our volunteer platform in order to give
our users the best and most optimal experience for their use case. Right now our Food Heroes are a main contributor
of listings to our system so its important we support them with the best tool as much as possible. We've also started
advertising in and around London after years of successful organic growth and are now starting to see massive
growth in our user base, and we’re starting to see hockey-stick style growth!
Technologies we work with are:
● Ruby on Rails (duh!) - currently Rails 5.2 but working on the upgrade to Rails 6
● AWS (Aurora / S3 / cloudfront / ELB / ECR / Cloudwatch / Lambda / Fargate)
● Docker
● Redis
● Travis-CI
● Sidekiq
● Activeadmin
● Google maps / mixpanel / mailgun / trevor.io
● Stripe
Once you have proven yourself you will have great freedom and autonomy, coupled with an enormous opportunity
for personal development. All of our roles are remote working roles, but we do try and have quarterly/half-yearly in
person meetups with the larger tech team/company (when possible). We live for our mission, but like to have fun
along the way!
All candidates must be eligible to work & reside in the UK
This is an incredibly exciting time to join OLIO and help us unlock our full potential! OLIO is a remote-first
company with an incredibly strong culture and was last year listed as a top 5 place to work by Escape The City.
We live for our mission, but like to have fun along the way!