For over 20 years, our platform has supported chefs and foodservice operators worldwide. We are now rebuilding everything for the next decade: AI-driven features, real-time data flows, global scalability, and a modern multi-cloud architecture. This is not a maintenance role. You will own the infrastructure end-to-end and set the engineering standards for MenuWise as we scale globally. What Youll Do Lead our migration to a modern AWS + Hetzner architecture. Build infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and cost-efficient. Design GitOps-style CI/CD pipelines with GitLab. Establish cloud patterns that increase developer productivity. Implement SOC-2 aligned security practices from day one. Build monitoring and alerting that just works. Produce clear, reliable documentation for engineering teams. Act as the go-to engineering partner for deployments, automation, and reliability. Core Responsibilities Manage AWS services: EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS Postgres, CloudWatch, IAM, WAF, CloudFront, Route 53, Secrets Manager Provision and automate Hetzner Cloud (CX/CPX instances, VLANs, firewalls, snapshots) Build and maintain Terraform IaC for dev/staging/prod Own CI/CD using GitLab runners, Docker, environment deployments Set up observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch alerts Implement security best practices: VPC design, IAM, least privilege, DR/backups Support developers through stable environments and clean deployment workflows Drive continuous improvement, automation, and cost optimisation across clouds Our Stack Cloud: AWS, Hetzner IaC: Terraform, Ansible CI/CD: GitLab CI, Docker Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch Networking: Cloudflare, VPC, SG, NACL, WAF Databases: Postgres (RDS), Redis/Valkey Other: Linux admin, Bash/Python scripting, Airflow, Ray, FastAPI, NestJS/Next.js familiarity helpful Required Skills & Experience 47 years of DevOps / SRE / Cloud Infrastructure experience 2+ years production experience on AWS Hands-on Terraform experience (must-have) Linux + networking fundamentals (strong) CI/CD automation with GitLab Monitoring + logging with Prometheus/Grafana/Loki Solid English communication for documentation and team collaboration Nice to Have Experience with Karpenter, Kubernetes, or scalable ECS patterns Multi-region DR, high availability, or FinOps experience Exposure to SaaS, multi-tenant systems, or security audits (SOC 2 / ISO 27001) Cost optimisation and tagging standards on AWS + Hetzner Experience with identity platforms (Keycloak, Auth0, Cognito) Why This Role Is Special You own the full cloud transformation roadmap High autonomy and ability to shape the future architecture Modern stack, clean slate for infra standards Small, senior team with fast decision-making Direct impact on a global B2B product used by chefs worldwide A culture that values speed, clarity, and engineering excellence If you want a role where your decisions define the next decade of a global SaaS platform, this is the right place.
MenuWise is a fast-growing food-tech SaaS platform used by professional chefs and foodservice operators across Australia and New Zealand. We are rebuilding our infrastructure and datasets from the ground up and need a strong backend engineer who likes difficult problems, clean architecture, and real-world impact. What You Will Work On Build and maintain a Django Admin interface used internally by our data and operations team • Develop and maintain web scrapers (Scrapy/Playwright/Requests) for ingredient, nutrition and supplier data • Build data pipelines for ingestion, validation, enrichment and scheduled updates • Design algorithms to benchmark ingredient prices across multiple sources • Implement logic to validate nutrition data and detect inconsistencies • Work with APIs, crawling, parsing, and structured data at scale • Improve code quality, reliability, and automation across the backend • Collaborate with our ML team to prepare clean, structured datasets Required Skills 3 years backend experience with Python • Strong with Django + Django Admin • Experience with web scraping frameworks (Scrapy, Playwright, Requests) • Knowledge of data ingestion, ETL pipelines, scheduling • Solid understanding of algorithms and problem-solving • Comfortable with PostgreSQL , MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Git • Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-structured code Bonus Skills (Good to Have) Experience with airflow , Celery , or other schedulers • Familiarity with nutrition datasets , pricing data, or ecommerce crawling • Experience working with sensitive or structured scientific data • Understanding of async Python • Experience in a SaaS environment Why Join MenuWise Work on a unique data platform with some of the richest culinary datasets in the world • Opportunity to shape the backend and own critical systems • Modern stack, autonomy, and fast decision cycles • Real impact: your work will power menu costing, nutrition, suppliers, and price intelligence used by Professional Chefs every day • Competitive salary for top Indian backend talent • Career-defining opportunity with a product about to scale globally