About Fresco
Fresco is a smart kitchen platform trusted by leading appliance brands around the world to build and scale connected cooking experiences. Our platform helps brands launch faster, deliver better experiences for home cooks, and accelerate their digital transformation. Our mission is to empower anyone to cook delicious food. Powered by KitchenOS and the Fresco AI Cooking Companion, Fresco connects appliances across brands, supports rapid onboarding, and scales globally in more than 15 languages. We work with partners including Panasonic, Middleby, Kenwood, Instant Pot Brands, Bosch, GE Appliances, Arda and LG, and operate as a global team with offices in Dublin and Madrid.
About The Role
Fresco is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with IoT, Python, and AWS experience to drive the design and development of the next generation of our multi‑sided smart kitchen platform: the Fresco KitchenOS.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Platform & Firmware, you will work cross functionally designing, creating and deploying end‑to‑end platform capabilities and supporting production operations.
Responsibilities
Own and evolve ~20 Lambda‑based microservices (Python 3.14, AWS CDK, aws‑lambda‑powertools) covering device control, cooking sessions, media, recipes, auth, and more
Design domain event patterns across services using EventBridge, SQS, and SNS
Own services end‑to‑end: ensuring correct schema design, maintaining self‑service deployment, alerting, and on‑call
Build AI/ML integrations using Google Generative AI, semantic search, and recipe understanding pipelines
Keep AWS spend honest: right‑size memory/timeout configs, eliminate wasteful invocation patterns, and flag cost regressions via Cost Explorer and Datadog before they hit the bill
Grow the team's skills through mentoring, knowledge‑sharing sessions, and other technical initiatives
Skills
5+ years building production AWS Lambda systems at scale, with deep expertise in AWS CDK (writing constructs, not just copy‑pasting templates)
Fluent in Python with strict typing (pyrefly, Pydantic v2)
Comfortable across DynamoDB, Valkey (Redis), PostgreSQL (SQLModel/Alembic), and Elasticsearch
Strong AI engineering practice: AI tooling is a core part of your engineering workflow, and you can bring the team along on adoption
Can read IoT/embedded protocol code (CBOR, KSUID, CRC) without panicking
Fluent in English; clear communicator with both technical peers and less‑technical stakeholders
How You'll Work
Senior IC: deep technical ownership and influence through code, design, and review, not people management
Make deliberate architecture trade‑offs and challenge infrastructure that isn’t earning its keep
Improve the shared abstractions others depend on (API Gateway, VPC, cache, DynamoDB tables) and drive direction through design docs and cross‑team code review
Own infrastructure as code (AWS CDK + deployment pipelines), observability (Datadog APM, Lambda tracing, structured logging, alarms), and the on‑call rotation
Engineering hygiene: strict typing, unit tests, Python tooling via uv, ruff, pyrefly, and Poe
Nice to Have
Multi‑tenant SaaS platform experience
LLM integration (prompt pipelines, structured extraction)
Appliance/IoT protocol knowledge
Benefits
The chance to work at a hyper‑growth, venture‑backed startup in a budding industry
The ability to feel true purpose in your work and generate success on a global platform
Competitive, market‑driven compensation
Meaningful share options as part of our Employee Share Option Scheme
A flexible hybrid model to suit you and your needs
Just like the ingredients in our kitchen, we believe that diversity of ideas is what makes the workplace great. Fresco is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates from a range of national, ethnic, or cultural groups. This job description works as a guide for the caliber of person we need, but we also understand that skills are transferable. If you are an exceptional candidate with mismatching experience, please apply and explain why you would be a great fit for Fresco.
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