ABOUT US
Chaldal is a technology company with the vision of building impactful technology in the developing world. We are a bunch of curious, hard-core engineers who believe that there are plenty of fundamental problems that technology can solve in the developing world.
We started out by building Bangladesh's largest online grocery service and the world's first 1-hour grocery delivery service in Dhaka, the world's most densely populated city. Since then, we've gone on to redefine supply chains, ease commodity trade, support refugee camps and reduce food wastage by building technology into the supply chain, all the way back to the farms.
In 2019, we started working with The UN World Food Programme to supply nutrition to the Rohingya refugee camp, and with various government development agencies (local and international) to structure Bangladesh's perishable supply chain and create a mobile-app powered wholesale markets for road-side retailers. Some of our partners are The Bangladesh Government, UNDP, USAID and The UK Department for International Development. We are also backed by The World Bank Group and Y Combinator.
While we strive to make positive global impact, we are geeks at heart and love being at the bleeding-edge of technology. We believe software development itself can be better, and have dedicated technical research teams that experiment with home-grown frameworks, algorithms, thought processes, programming languages and DSLs. We run our own cloud in local data centers and work directly with country-wide information infrastructure providers.
Our engineering team is lean with 30 engineers spanning across Customer Experience, Delivery Operations, Supply Chain Operations, Infrastructure and Special Projects with team members placed in Bangladesh, US, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland and Australia.
OUR WORK
ONLINE GROCERY
E-Commerce PlatformThe world's first 1-hour and 15-minute grocery delivery service, serving quarter million households in the world's most densely populated city, Chaldal.com thrives in chaos. We strive to offer the best prices and maintain the highest standards of quality, a monumental task that is a work-in-progress.
VEGETABLE NETWORK
Supply Chain PlatformThe Vegetable Network connects small rural farmers with small urban retailers by reimagining a supply chain driven by technology. Our aim is to protect farmers from volatile markets, improve the working conditions of retailers and minimize wastage.
AT-RISK COMMUNITIES
Social Impact PlatformWe work with The World Food Programme to feed the world's largest refugee camp. This involves extending efficient supply chains to previously-uninhabited areas, providing thousands of tons of food and developing better nutrition in highly impoverished communities.
MICRO-WAREHOUSING
Fulfillment PlatformWe pioneered the concept of micro-warehouses to serve the daily needs of a quarter million families within an hour in the world's most densely populated city. These micro-warehouses use advanced algorithms to predict stock and automatically balance inventory between themselves.
GoGo Bangla
Logistics PlatformGoGo Bangla is a e-commerce delivery service that leverages Chaldal's vast logistics network to support the operations of a dozen large e-commerce stores and hundreds of online merchants. We support deliveries, pick-ups, exchanges and other ad-hoc activities.
Protocol
Messaging PlatformProtocol is an enterprise messaging platform that coordinates the activities of our growing employee base where solutions such as Slack, email and ticketing systems have proven to be highly ineffective, either due to their complexity or pricing.
Chalao
Ridesharing PlatformChalao is designed as a ethical ride-sharing platform to augment our logistics network, where drivers are compensated for the time spent on the platform, with the possibility of full-time employment with benefits.
Cookups
Thoughtful Dining PlatformCookups delivers home-cooked, made-to-order food from the finest cooks in the city. 95 % of our cooks are female who had never earned before joining Cookups. We bring you food that reminds you of your grandma's recipes or lets you taste what Masterchef shows on television.
Data Centers
Meta PlatformWe run our own servers in local data centers connected over high-speed leased lines, and expose a cloud interface to our engineers and partners. We believe in data locality and find public clouds just too darn expensive to serve the developing world.
CAREERS
Dhaka
Jessore
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San Francisco
Osaka
Singapore
Dhaka
Remote
As a principal engineer, you will work on the latest cutting edge technologies such as F#, .NET Core, React, React Native and TypeScript. You will also be contributing to our rapidly expanding business by improving our highly scalable and efficient software systems.
Qualifications and Responsibilities:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English
- 10+ years experience with the one or more of the following: web application development, architecting and developing large scale design, distributed and parallel systems
- Capability of mentoring engineers is preferred
- Thrives in a functional programming environment
- Work with other engineers and product team in planning, prioritising and executing assigned projects with pushing deadlines
- Take part in recommendation for new software technologies and company roadmaps
- Take part in code reviews
Benefits:
- Industry-leading salary
- Fun work environment
- Always have new challenges to work on
- Gain experience with scalable innovative software systems
Osaka
Singapore
Dhaka
Jessore
Remote
As a senior software engineer, you will work on and improve our highly scalable and efficient software systems in our rapidly expanding business.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English
- 5+ years experience with one or more programming languages and frameworks including but not limited to: F#, Python, Scala, C#, SQL, React, React Native, and TypeScript
- Experience with functional programming is a preferred
- Should be able to take part in code reviews and mentor junior engineers
Benefits:
- Industry-leading salary
- Fun work environment
- Always have new challenges to work on
- Gain experience with scalable innovative software systems
Dhaka
Jessore
Remote
As a React Engineer you will build performant apps for large scale systems that power nationwide supply chains which move thousands of metric tonnes of produce on a daily basis. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and a strong team player with a commitment to perfection will thrive in this environment
Responsibilities:
- Build pixel-perfect, smooth user interfaces
- Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native
- Interacting with the back-end developer in the process of integrating the RESTful API
- Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality
- Delivering a complete application
Skills:
- Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript language
- Strong Knowledge in ES6, ES7, NodeJS, Redux, ReactJS
- Experience with functional programming preferred
- Ability to write well-documented and clean code
- Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
- Willingness to learn and be trained on React Native
- English proficiency and strong communication skills
Educational Qualification and Experience:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field to Software Development or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience working as a web developer with at least 12months of hands on experience using ReactJS
- Experience in React Native is a plus
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- A strong track record of developing and maintaining applications with clean, reusable code
- Previous management experience is a plus
Chaldal's full-time employees receive competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays.
Dhaka
Jessore
Remote
As a Senior React Native engineer you will be building performant mobile apps for large scale systems that power nationwide supply chains which move thousands of metric tonnes of produce on a daily basis. You will be responsible for architecting and building these applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructure. Building a product is a highly collaborative effort, and a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.
Responsibilities:
- Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both iOS and Android mobile platforms
- Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms
- Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native
- Interacting with the back-end developer in the process of integrating the RESTful API
- Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality
- Delivering a complete mobile application
Skills:
- Firm grasp of the JavaScript and TypeScript language
- Strong Knowledge in ES6, ES7, NodeJS, React Native, Redux, ReactJS
- Experience with functional programming preferred
- Ability to write well-documented and clean code
- Rock solid at working with third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
- Experience with native build tools like XCode, Gradle, Android Studio and IntelliJ
- Comfortable with integrating custom react native extensions using native platform code
- English proficiency and strong communication skills
Educational Qualification and Experience:
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field to Software Development or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience working as a mobile developer
- 2+ years of experience in React Native
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- A strong track record of developing and maintaining mobile applications with clean, reusable code
- Previous management experience is a plus
Chaldal's full-time employees receive competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays.