Fruitist is a modern food company on a mission to revolutionize snacking—and the numbers prove we’re well on our way. With over $1B in lifetime sales and $400M in revenue in the last year alone, we’re not chasing trends—we’re building a lasting brand at the intersection of health, sustainability, and innovation with our suite of snackable superfruits including berries and cherries.

Our momentum is powered by a leadership team drawn from the likes of McKinsey, Calm, Red Bull, and Netflix, and backed by global investors who specialize in consumer and tech-forward ventures. Together, we’re leveraging data, supply chain technology, and a sustainability-first model to disrupt a $500 billion-dollar industry.

We’re hiring builders. Operators. Creators. People who want to move fast, learn faster, and grow alongside a company that’s reshaping snacking. If you’re looking for a company where your work shapes the business—and your career accelerates with it—welcome to Fruitist.

Get to Know Fruitist 🎧

Fruitist is seeking a transformational Head of Engineering to lead its global engineering function responsible for delivering the next generation of software applications, data platforms and oversee technical delivery and integration of solutions across the organization. You will architect and implement scalable systems to support a fast-growing international business, ensure operational excellence, and drive product innovation across core and emerging technologies (AI/ML, analytics, IoT, and ERP integrations). This role is instrumental in maturing the company’s technology foundation while enabling expansion across 13+ countries.

You will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing engineering team, setting architectural direction, standardizing infrastructure governance, and ensuring consistent global delivery across systems—from owning infra powering our ERPs to leading development and deployment of bespoke and 3rd party apps, to provisioning resources that power data platforms which support our precision agriculture and AI/ML predictive models across the business.

You will work directly with our CTO, Head of Data and Head of IT counterparts to stand up an industry-leading technology organization that can support our mission of consistent healthy and nutritious snacking.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Global Architecture & Infrastructure: Design and manage scalable, secure infrastructure to support ERP, data platform and analytics, and software applications globally across AWS and Azure.

• Lead Software Engineering & DevOps: Oversee in-house product development (Python/JavaScript), DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, and production-grade system reliability.

• Build vs. Buy Strategy: Guide decisions around proprietary vs. third-party software with a clear eye toward operational scalability and differentiation, while balancing user and business’ functional needs.

• Governance & Compliance: Establish change management, vendor controls, and infrastructure governance to support global compliance and public-market readiness.

• Support Data Science & AI Teams: Provide robust infra support for ML pipelines, real-time analytics, and yield prediction models in close partnership with the Head of Data and Head of AI.

• ERP & IT Collaboration: Partner with IT and ERP leaders to ensure robust backend infrastructure that supports business operations across geographies.

• Team Building & Mentorship: Scale and lead a hybrid global engineering team, with direct management of DevOps, software engineers, and Peruvian application developers.

• Budget Oversight: Manage a multimillion-dollar engineering budget to maximize ROI on tech investments.

• Drive Operational Maturity: Build systems that deliver consistent uptime, global performance, and enable rapid product iteration.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including as a Head of Engineering, VP, or equivalent at a fast-scaling tech-forward business.

• Strong track record building and managing global hybrid engineering teams (onshore + near/offshore).

• Proven experience supporting international operations and infrastructure across 5+ countries, experience leading deployments in China is a plus.

• Deep technical expertise in AWS (Athena, Redshift, Kinesis, S3, IAM, ECS), with additional fluency in Azure or GCP preferred.

• Experience leading software development with Python backends and modern JavaScript frontends (React, Vue).

• Demonstrated success driving infrastructure maturity, including DevOps, CI/CD, and scalable architecture.

• Experience supporting analytics and machine learning environments (e.g., Databricks, MLOps).

• Familiarity with SAP or similar ERP systems, especially in a distributed or hybrid cloud environment.

• Has led engineering maturity initiatives in a pre-IPO or newly public company.

What Success Looks Like

• A fully governed, globally scalable engineering environment with unified infrastructure patterns.

• Improved speed, consistency, and reliability across systems and deployments.

• High-performing teams in place with strong morale, velocity, and technical direction.

• Tight collaboration and technical alignment with product, IT, data, and country teams.

• Operational readiness and scalability achieved for new market entries and product lines.

• Technical foundations enabling Fruitist’s AI, robotics, and global innovation ambitions.

Why Join Fruitist?

🍇 Mission-driven: We’re here to transform healthy snacking, globally
📊 Data-first: Analytics, AI, and insight are central to our next phase of growth
🌎 Global impact: Operate across a truly international platform with real-world sustainability outcomes
💥 Growth stage: $400M+ TTM revenue, $1B+ valuation, rapid expansion ahead
💡 Greenfield opportunity: You’ll shape the future of data at one of the world’s most exciting CPG brands

If you meet most of the qualifications above and connect with our mission to inspire enjoyable and nutritious snacking, we want to hear from you! While we are tech-forward in our embrace of AI to enhance our growing capabilities, we’re human-centric in our hiring. This means all applications will be reviewed by humans, including yours. We aim to respond to applicants within two weeks. We look forward to hearing from you!