Business Development Executive

Job Responsibilities:

  • Develop effective new restaurant business pipeline to exceed revenue goals.
  • Generate leads, qualify accounts, advance sales cycle, negotiate terms, and close!
  • Support implementation team's effective on-boarding of new business.
  • Position is based in Palo Alto, with 30-70% U.S. travel.

Requirements:

  • Strong tech chops with deployment and/or project management experience.
  • Highly professional and enthusiastic.
  • Aggressive, and entrepreneurial self-starter.
  • Strong business acumen with aptitude for C-Level communication.
  • Experience with restaurant industry technology, methods, and procedures a plus.

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@elacarte.com

Restaurant Operations Executive

Job Responsibilities:

  • Create relationships with restaurant managers and staff to manage their needs and expectations.
  • Train and engage restaurant staff to ensure smooth adoption of Presto tablets.
  • Work with supply chain, operations, and sales teams to deliver great service to E la Carte customers.
  • Maintain restaurant menus.

Requirements:

  • 2 to 8 years experience in front of the house restaurant training.
  • Understanding of restaurant industry technology terminology, methods and procedures.
  • Tech-savvy with the ability to quickly learn product and business.
  • Amazing people skills combined with analytical and organizational abilities.
  • Vehicle and ability to travel 20-50%.

To apply, send resume and a note on why you're interested in joining us to megan@elacarte.com with "Restaurant Operations Executive" in the subject line.

Director of Partner Operations

Job Responsibilities:

  • Manage all North America deployments and installations.
  • Co-ordinate technical operations efforts to meet deadlines.
  • Interface with customers to manage their needs and expectations.
  • Work with supply chain, engineering, & sales to deliver great customer service.

Requirements:

  • Experience working in a very fast-paced, chaotic environment like a startup.
  • Technical background and fast learner.
  • Amazing people skills combined with analytical ability.

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@elacarte.com

Field Applications Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

  • Manage the successful deployment of our system in restaurants.
  • Set up and troubleshoot wireless networks.
  • Work with restaurant staff to customize our system for unique configurations.
  • Train managers and staff to ensure successful adoption.
  • Monitor activity of our system in installed restaurants.
  • Provide post-installation technical support to restaurant managers.
  • Position is based in Palo Alto, with 20-50% U.S. travel.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree along with a demonstrated proficiency in IT.
  • Working knowledge of wired and wireless networking.
  • Knowledge of DOS and/or UNIX/Linux command-line tools.
  • Restaurant staff/management experience & POS familiarity are a plus.

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@elacarte.com

Backend Software Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

  • Create software to connect disparate software systems.
  • Develop new protocols for an industry with no unified standard.
  • Design systems to augment existing software enabling it to transmit data and concepts not part of the original product.

Requirements:

  • C++, Python.
  • Experience with SQL, XML, REST, & COM interfaces.
  • Excellent communication skills both in-person & via text-only means.
  • Cross-platform development, machine learning, network protocols, data mining and experience working with undocumented APIs are a major plus.

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@elacarte.com

Tools Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

  • Build tools to convert data amongst custom formats.
  • Create interfaces for easier management of data.
  • Reduce mindless tasks to easy satisfying simple clicks.

Requirements:

  • C++, Python, Javascript
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, SQLite, XML.
  • Cross-platform development experience.
  • Practiced with undocumented diverse APIs.

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@elacarte.com

User Interface Developer

Job Responsibilities:

  • Work with designers to develop a fully functional interface for a number of purposes.
  • Tackle the challenge of guiding interactions of new one-time guests while making the experience enjoyable for staff making use of it daily.
  • Design extensibility for optimal fixed-hardware layouts while supporting any number of potential future platforms.

Requirements:

  • Experience with graphics software to manipulate designs
  • Experience with graphics development toolkits
  • C++ or similar language with cross-platform development experience
  • Qt and mobile development platform familiarity a plus

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@elacarte.com

Test Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead the software quality assurance effort for our end-user application.
  • Write & execute test plans for periodic software releases & new deployments.
  • Maintain and expand our in-lab Point-Of-Sale test facilities.
  • Participate in other tasks as needed, such as converting electronic menu data from one format to another.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or Master's in a scientific subject.
  • QA methodology: unit, integration, regression, user interface automated testing.
  • Ability to develop automated custom QA solutions.
  • Experience with scripting (Python/Perl/Bash) and Unix commands.
  • Experience with Windows, Linux and virtual machines administration.
  • Experience with Point-of Sale systems a plus.

Send cover letter & resume to jobs@elacarte.com

Regional Sales Executive

Job Responsibilities:

  • Acquire & manage new accounts.
  • Develop key sales & marketing strategies.

Requirements:

  • PASSION!
  • 1-2 years previous experience in inside/outside sales.
  • Exceptional communication skills.
  • Relentless determination, creativity, ambition, and hunger to learn.
  • Restaurant and/or start-up experience a major plus.

Send cover letter & resume to hiring-biz@elacarte.com

Software Engineering Intern
As an intern at E la Carte, you'll have the opportunity to spearhead an interesting project which makes a major impact even after you've left. Intern projects range from building new systems that scale with web technologies while operating in a limited-resource restaurant environment to defining the way users will interact with technology in a traditionally human-only setting. You'll have the opportunity to learn about the entire company's inner workings, tackle diverse and challenging problems, get exposure to a multitude of technologies, and work with an assigned mentor on a small, tight-knit engineering team.

Our benefits include:

  • Competitive pay and relocation assistance
  • No dress code
  • Flexible schedules
  • Catered meals while you work
  • Intern outings and activities

Requirements:

  • Pursuing a degree in the computer science field with a breadth of technical knowledge.
  • A deep passion for coding, displayed by interesting personal and professional projects.
  • Comfort with cross-platform multi-language architecture.
  • Leadership roles are a huge plus.

If interested, please send resume (2-page maximum) to hiring@elacarte.com with "SW Engineering Intern" in the subject line. Let us know what projects you love to work on! You can also take our challenge below and rise to the top!

User Interface Graphic Designer
E la Carte is seeking a full-time UI & Graphic Designer to work on various design projects, such as production of graphic designs for touch-screen tablet and web, and assisting in the design of intuitive systems and processes for user interaction.

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 1-3 years experience in design for interactive products, such as mobile apps, web, or touch-screen software.
  • High-quality graphic design portfolio focused on interactive design projects.
  • Expert in Adobe suite (Photoshop, Fireworks, and Illustrator).
  • Organized with great attention to detail.
  • Ability to produce great work in a chaotic ever-changing start-up environment.

Please send resume, link to online UI/web portfolio, and brief letter describing why you're interested in joining us to megan@elacarte.com with "UI Graphic Designer" in the subject line.

Sales Agent (Nationwide)
Do you have existing contacts in the restaurant business? Want to have control over your career and earn additional income? E la Carte is seeking enthusiastic and entrepreneurial Independent Sales Agents to aggressively spread the word about our cutting-edge tablet technology and open new restaurant accounts nationwide.

What E la Carte offers you:

  • Unlimited earnings potential.
  • Supplemental sales and product training.
  • Marketing programs and materials.
  • Support from an established sales team.
  • If interested, an opportunity to develop a salarty-based career with us.

What you need to succeed as an E la Carte Sales Agent:

  • Ambition to create your own pipeline of business and be self-managed.
  • Ability to build instant rapport with restaurant owners.
  • Exceptional communication skills.
  • Energetic, can-do attitude with an insane work ethic.
  • A passion for technology, startups, and restaurants.
  • Drive to succeed and make a lot of money!

For immediate consideration, please send resume (2-page maximum) and an email detailing your related experience and why you're interested in joining us to hiring-biz@elacarte.com with "Sales Agent" in the subject line.

Lead Software Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead a geographically-distributed software development team through efficient product development.
  • Plan and implement development policies and associated tools to streamline SDLC.
  • Ongoing management of projects and reporting of progress to team.
  • Coaching and mentoring team members, fostering team building, and ensuring engineer engagement.

Requirements:

  • 3-8 years experience developing software products in at least 2 companies with strong process orientation.
  • Breadth of fluency in various programming languages and tools (C++, Python and Django.)
  • Strong understanding of the software development life cycle and methodologies (agile, scrum, etc.)
  • Experience leading teams of engineers.

For immediate consideration, please send us a quick note and resume to hiring@elacarte.com with "Lead Software Engineer" in the subject line.

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