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Funding and backers

Hiring now
20
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Endeavor, Y Combinator
Momentum
24/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 8, 2025 Partnership Chowdeck announces partnership with Oseikrom Aduanipa · MyJoyOnline Jun 2022 Went through Y Combinator Sep 1, 2021 Released an app Chowdeck: Food & Groceries · App Store 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.48%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.5 ★
345 ratings
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How Chowdeck hires

Truth index
B 70/100
Ghost roles
50%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Chowdeck scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 20 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 50% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Chowdeck is a Lagos delivery company founded in 2021 that brings food, groceries and pharmacy orders to customers in Nigerian cities. Its app coordinates a fleet of riders and gives restaurants and shops order management tools. The company has expanded from Lagos to several other states.

News

News saharareporters.com 5 months ago
'They Threatened To Shoot Us': Lagos Company Chowdeck Accused Of Intimidating Victims After Rider Crash Left Man With Spine Fractured Sahara Reporters
Fresh controversy has engulfed food delivery company Chowdeck after Lagos resident Oghenechovwo Donald Ekpeki accused persons allegedly linked to the company of intimidation, threats, and attempts to silence him and fellow victim Purity Adheke following a
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News Afridigest 1 year ago
How Chowdeck plans to succeed where Jumia Food failed
By prioritizing couriers and everyday local foods, Chowdeck is riding an online food delivery wave that drowned Jumia Food and other early market entrants.
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News MyJoyOnline 1 year ago
Chowdeck announces partnership with Oseikrom Aduanipa
Chowdeck, the on-demand delivery company, today announced an exclusive partnership deal with Oseikrom Aduanipa, a popular Ghanaian restaurant known for its authentic local cuisine. This collaboration will bring together Chowdeck's delivery infrastructure
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News TechCrunch 2 years ago
Nigeria's YC-backed Chowdeck hopes to scale food delivery, a notoriously tough market, with $2.5M funding
Lagos-based Chowdeck, armed with $2.5 million, aims to make its mark in a food delivery space that has burned the likes of Jumia and Bolt.
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News Rest of World 3 years ago
Running a food-delivery service in Nigeria is hard; Chowdeck makes it look easy
Bolt, Jumia, and Glovo struggle with long delivery times, but YC-backed Chowdeck has solid tech and driver incentives on its side in Nigeria's food delivery market.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Chowdeck over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
15
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
82/100
Languages
Python
SQL
JavaScript
Node JS
Databases
MySQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Figma
GCP
Kubernetes
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Full Chowdeck tech stack 15 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
72/100
Growing
Open positions
25
5 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
119 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~8 hours
10/22/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
31% ▲
Sales
19% ▲
Operations
19% ▲
Design
13% ▲
Customer Success
13% ▼
Marketing
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Product (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Enugu Oct 2026
New location: Nigeria Oct 2026
Added X (Twitter) to stack Sep 2026
Added Outlook to stack Sep 2026
Added Instagram to stack Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack Sep 2026
Added Adobe Photoshop to stack Sep 2026
New location: Ikoyi Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Ikoyi
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Lagos Nigeria
HQ
Ikoyi Nigeria
Engineering / R&D
16 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 44% engineering
hires for Product, Sales, Data Science
seen since Jan 2025 job postings
Accra Ghana
Support & operations
6 open roles 5 posted in 90 days
hires for Marketing, Customer Success, Design
seen since Aug 2025 job postings
Enugu Nigeria
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for Operations
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Ibadan, Nigeria 1 open roles · last posting Jun 2026
Port Harcourt, Nigeria 1 open roles · last posting Jun 2026

Jobs

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≈ $24k – $53k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Ikoyi
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≈ $24k – $53k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Ikoyi
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In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Accra
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
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≈ $21k – $48k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Ikoyi
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
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In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Ikoyi
Python
Machine Learning
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≈ $16k – $41k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Ikoyi
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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In office • Full-Time • Ikoyi
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $17k – $49k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Ikoyi
JavaScript
Node JS
MySQL
Redis
DevOps
AWS
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