VP of Engineering, Platform & Operations

About Wonder

Everything’s on the menu at Wonder. Except compromise.  

Wonder is the mealtime platform built to feed every craving in one order. With Wonder, you can mix and match hundreds of dishes from 20+ exclusive restaurants in a single order, so everyone gets exactly what they’re craving. Enjoy everything from tacos to Thai with $0 delivery fees, plus dine-in or pick up at a Wonder location near you. Each dish is made to order on-site by our culinary team and served hot.

Behind the scenes, Wonder owns and operates every step of the dining experience, from recipe development to the technology that powers our experience, allowing us to deliver quality, variety, and consistency at scale.

Join us as we work to make great food more accessible.

About The Opportunity 

You will lead Wonder's Platform & Operations Engineering organization, reporting to the CTO. Your scope spans the full technical backbone of the company including cloud infrastructure, developer tools, frontend platform, care technology, merchant operations systems, and logistics and dispatch.

Every engineering team across Wonder Group (Grubhub, Blue Apron, and Wonder) builds on what this organization owns. Your mandate is to lead the platform technical strategy and execution. Maintaining reliably at scale while driving the tech stack consolidation and modernization that positions the business for its next phase of growth.

The Impact You Will Make

Platform & Infrastructure

• Own the multi-cloud platform across Azure, GCP, and AWS and drive the consolidation planning and execution and simplification strategy

• Lead container orchestration at scale (AKS), and other foundational stacks like Kafka, Redis, networking, and reliability engineering

• Drive observability and SRE capability across all brands and workloads

• Own cloud and software cost management and the infrastructure cost optimization roadmap

Logistics & Dispatch

• Own the courier/driver marketplace platform, ETA systems, and fulfillment orchestration

• Ensure logistics infrastructure supports real-time dispatch at oper ational scale across all Wonder and Grubhub delivery surfaces

Developer Tools & Productivity

• Build and run an AI First engineering tooling and capabilities that make every engineer more productive

• Own CI/CD, developer experience toolchain, and internal platform tooling across all engineering organizations

• Build and operate the developer platform that enables engineering velocity across Wonder Group

• Drive measurable improvement in developer productivity as an organizational capability

Frontend Platform

• Own shared frontend components and design systems across Wonder, Blue Apron and Grubhub applications and surfaces.

• Ensure frontend platform enables product teams to move fast without rebuilding foundational components.

Care & Support Technology

• Own CX operations technology, post-purchase automation, and care tooling

• Own AI-first care automation via chat and voice

• Ensure care technology scales with order volume without proportional headcount growth and optimized cost structure 

Merchant Operations Systems

• Own merchant platform, POS integrations, GrubHub for Restaurants, reporting, and Salesforce customer lifecycle management.

• Ensure merchant-facing systems support the full Wonder and Grubhub merchant base

Why This Role

• Direct line to company-critical infrastructure. The entire business depends on this org working well.

• Multi-brand platform (Wonder, Grubhub, Blue Apron) with well established business and customer bases means significant scale immediately

• Consolidation mandate with executive support, you are leading a defined technical strategy initiative

• Logistics and dispatch engineering at scale is a major differentiation for the group and critical to the business. 

• CTO is actively engaged and treats platform reliability and developer velocity as first-class company priorities

What You