About Wonder

Everything’s on the menu at Wonder. Except compromise.

The Wonder app is the premiere platform to feed every craving, all in one order. Our 25+ award-winning restaurant partners span every cuisine you can think of, from Greek to Thai, and come from the minds of the best chefs in the industry—Bobby Flay, José Andrés, Marcus Samuelsson, and more.

And our diners don’t have to choose just one: they can mix and match dishes from as many Made by Wonder restaurants as they’d like, or order from neighborhood gems near them. Everything is made to order at our brick-and-mortar locations across the East Coast and delivered fast and free, and more locations are opening every week.

The best in the business are coming to Wonder, working every day to make us the destination for every mealtime moment. Join a team of technology, culinary, and logistics pioneers, backed by top-tier venture capitalists, and help us make great food more accessible.

About Wonder Robotics

Within Wonder, the Robotics team is a core pillar of our innovation strategy. We build the automation solutions that help make Wonder’s 'no-compromise' promise possible at scale. Our mission is to use robotics to enable incredible variety and culinary authenticity. By reimagining the kitchen environment, we improve the daily experience of our team members and ensure every customer receives a perfect meal, every time.

The Infinite Kitchen is the heart of Wonder’s automation future. Having successfully deployed to 30 locations, we are now entering a pivotal phase: scaling our footprint, expanding partnerships, and diversifying our menu capabilities.

About The Opportunity

As the Staff Engineer for Infinite Kitchen, you will take the baton from our Director of Engineering to become the primary technical owner of the Infinite Kitchen software ecosystem. You will ensure that our unique stack—spanning industrial automation (PLC), robotic planning (Python), and real-time distributed systems (Elixir/Phoenix)—works in perfect harmony.

This is a high-impact leadership role for a "polyglot" engineer. While you may not have direct reports, you are the technical authority for the Infinite Kitchen project. You will lead standups, mentor software engineers across functional silos, and hold the "tie-breaking vote" on critical architectural decisions.

You will have the autonomy to shape the technical roadmap of a category-defining product and the authority to make the final call on how we build the future of food.

This role is based in our Boston office in Charlestown, MA

The Impact You Will Make

• Technical Stewardship: Own the end-to-end software architecture of the Infinite Kitchen. You’ll ensure that changes in the Python robotics layer or PLC firmware integrate seamlessly with our Elixir-based APIs and Vue.js frontends.

• Pragmatic Problem Solving: Lead the design and implementation of new high-priority features, such as multi-tenancy support for B2B clients and complex new menu logic, without over-engineering for the "scale of a million" before we hit the "scale of a hundred."

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Run daily/thrice-weekly standups. Review technical specs and code across the stack, providing feedback that levels up the entire team.

• Operational Excellence: Participate in the on-call rotation, a standard responsibility for all Infinite Kitchen engineering roles.

• Bridge the Gap: Collaborate closely with Product Managers to translate business requirements into technical reality. You’ll be the person who identifies edge cases before they hit the lab floor.

• Hands-on Mentorship: Get into the weeds with engineers to debug complex race conditions or integration hurdles. You aren't just drawing diagrams; you’re helping the team ship.

What You Bring to the Table

• 6+ years of professional software experience

• 2+ years in a leadership or staff-level capacity

• Track record of quickly learning new paradigms and languages

• Experience with physical systems, IoT, or industrial automation

• A pragmatist mindset to know when to build robust, scalable solutions and when to ship a “good enough” version to unblock a B2B pilot.

• Experience making design decisions collaboratively with engineers

This role requires 4 days a week in the office. You're welcome—and encouraged—to be in the office up to 5 days a week if it works for you.

Massachusetts: $208,000 - $216,500 per year.

Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.

A Final Note

At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens. We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.