Staff Data Scientist

Global restaurant brands run their operation on the Crunchtime platform. Delivering a consistent guest experience across every location and managing food and labor costs are at the core of how Crunchtime’s software is used today in over 150,000 locations across 100+ countries by the world’s top restaurant and foodservice operators. Customers including Chipotle, Culver’s, Domino’s, Dunkin’, Five Guys and P.F. Chang’s rely on our top-ranked platform which now includes Zenput to manage inventory, staff scheduling, learning and development, food safety, operational tasks and audits.

About the Role:

• We are a fast-paced organization and we are looking for people who want to collaborate broadly and deal with ambiguity to solve real problems that have a huge impact on our customer’s businesses, and to grow our company and grow the people around them.
• As a Staff Data Scientist at Crunchtime, you will be at the forefront of growing our analytics capabilities by helping our customers make better business decisions by analyzing and interpreting data. You are constantly curious about finding a deeper understanding of problems and can leverage tools to collect, organize, and develop deep learning models.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor other engineers to ensure our product and team members are growing
• Identify opportunities to improve in support of our product roadmap
• Create ADRs, RFCs, and other supporting documents to ensure technical decisions are well-considered, clear, and recorded so we have context and trust in what we’re doing
• Contribute directly on the Crunchtime platform, including predictive modeling and data driven decision making for internal and external stakeholders
• Work in an agile environment, scoping work to enable tight feedback loops on what’s working and what’s not
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Eng Managers on plans for iterative improvements
• Maximize long‑term velocity and minimize risk by using and educating on TDD, CI and other DevOps best practices

Required Skills and Abilities:

• 8+ years as a data scientist reporting analytics for different applications
• Experience in a player/coach role, both leading development teams
• Experience with Snowflake, Python, and SQL

Preferred Skills:

• Specific experience with our tech (React, Django, Javascript, TypeScript, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Mobile Development, AWS, Terraform)
• Experience with DevOps
• Open source contributions
• You’ve helped make your work environment fun, and it’s important to you.
• You’ve built great relationships with coworkers in the past, and want to keep doing it.
• You care similarly about building great software, and building great relationships with other people.
• You’re interested in the technical problems we are solving.
• You’re interested in the types of business problems we are solving.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, information systems, or related field.

Essential Physical & Mental Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk
• Prolonged periods of typing and working at a computer
• Ability to listen and speak over the phone or Zoom calls
• High level of mental concentration and focus

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, and responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Crunchtime provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Accessibility Accommodation Statement

Crunchtime complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Crunchtime, we are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic.

We have an inclusive and diverse workplace where every team member is respected and valued. As a global software development company, we believe that our diverse employee population enriches our work environment.

Join us in our mission to provide the best software solutions to the food industry. We encourage you to apply regardless of your background or experience; even if you don’t meet all the qualifications, because we believe unique experiences and perspectives make us a stronger team.