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Senior Automation Specialist

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Permanent contract
Barcelona
Salary: Not specified
No remote work
Skills & expertise
Unicorn
Graphql
Zapier
Google apps
Retool
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Choco
Choco

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To solve one of the largest problems of our generation we need to get the world’s best talent.

We are on a mission to enable the global food system to become sustainable. Our technology is enabling thousands of restaurants, wholesalers, and producers across 7 countries to operate waste-free and efficiently already today. Yet, this is a drop into the ocean. We just started. Our goal to connect the global food system is extremely ambitious and complex. A problem of this magnitude and complexity requires a massive scale and only the best people will be able to solve it. We are gathering the best people globally together in order to succeed in our mission. Are you in?

For us, it is always team-first.  Teams in which everyone subordinates their individual success to the team's success will win against teams that don't. Can you put your ego aside?

We are looking for the hungry underdogs that will rather fail than not try. We look for humility because it makes us learn faster. And we look for people who understand that hard work is necessary and that shortcuts don’t exist. We are playing the long game and want to build a truly generational company.

Our mission requires us to be fast. We believe that urgency is a mindset. We look for people who act with speed in everything they do, yet never lose sight of the bigger picture.

Fun plays an important role. We want to succeed and celebrate when we do. It is important to us that our people form real bonds in and outside of work.

We have no small plans, we are assembling a championship team, with people that take real ownership of our company’s long-term success. If you feel this is for you, then deep inside you, you might be already one of us.

See what we’ve been up to: bit.ly/3BX0kYj

Revolutionizing the food supply chain and reducing the waste along the way, requires us to lead this change from within, by striving for the most efficient processes for customer onboarding. This is the focus of the Automation Specialists. After starting the journey with low-code solutions such as RPA, Python scripting and select use cases for generative AI, the next level of evolution will focus on API automation and building UIs & workflows to automate end-to-end processes.

The Senior Automation Specialist supports the team hands-on in solution development, while helping to understand the requirements of our internal customers and guiding the team on continuously improving the stability and sustainability of their solutions.

What you’ll do

  • Building Automation Solutions: Leveraging our workflow tools and internal APIs to build efficient and stable automation solutions & ensuring quality and impact of the solutions by applying rigorous validation & testing procedures.

  • Process design: Engaging with our Ops teams and stakeholders to understand the business processes and needs to be served by every solution & supporting the roll-out and adoption of solutions, by supporting in user training and engagement

  • Guidance: Supporting junior team members with technical blockers & sharing best practices proactively and helping to shape the team’s cadences and processes to ensure the highest possible impact and quality of our solutions.

  • Strategy: Supporting important strategic decisions on automation related topics or key product design decisions with technical expertise, as well as engaging in exploration and supporting the sourcing & selection of new technologies, where required.

What we’re looking for

  • Great understanding of APIs (incl. GraphQL) & workflow management tools (e.g. Zapier, Retool, N8N)

  • Proven track record of applying generative AI solutions to business problems

  • Proficiency with at least one programming language (Python, JavaScript)

  • Good knowledge in RPA, OCR and scripting tools (e.g. Google Apps Scripts) preferred

  • Self-starter mindset; being able to deliver results with little guidance

  • Customer- & quality first mindset (both for internal stakeholders and end users)

  • Highly effective written and verbal communication skills (especially wrt technical concepts)

Choco was founded in Berlin in 2018 and has since expanded to a team of over 400 committed Chocorians working from Choco offices in the US, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, the UK, and Spain. Our ordering app is used by over 15K buyers and over 10K suppliers around the globe - processing hundreds of thousands of tons of food every month.

We raised over $280mn from some of the world’s best investors like Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Coatue Management, and LeftLane Capital. We are the first unicorn to reduce food waste.

We’re working alongside those who built companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Rocket Internet, and more.

Choco is an equal-opportunity employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We are committed to ensuring that our technology is available and accessible to everyone. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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