Home Chef
homechef.com
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Catering & Food Services
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How Home Chef hires
Truth index
B 84/100
Median time to fill
341 days
Ghost roles
8%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
42%
Home Chef scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 12 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 8% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 42% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 341 days. 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
Home Chef is a meal kit and prepared meal company headquartered in Chicago that delivers portioned ingredients and recipes for home cooking and sells its meals in more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores. Founded in 2013 and owned by Kroger since 2018, it launched Tempo, a line of ready-to-heat meals delivered to the door, in 2023, and runs production and distribution facilities in Atlanta, Bedford, San Bernardino and Baltimore. Most openings are at its plants, for production associates, leads and supervisors, reach truck operators, warehouse and maintenance staff and food safety managers, with analytics engineering, marketing and IT roles in the office.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Home Chef over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
24
Postings analysed
32
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL13%
JavaScript6%
Python6%
Ruby3%
Frameworks & libraries
React Native3%
Ruby on Rails3%
React.js3%
Databases
PostgreSQL3%
Cloud & platforms
Figma6%
GitHub3%
Heroku3%
Looker3%
AI & ML
LLM3%
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Full Home Chef tech stack
24 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$75k
Typical range
$34k – $185k
Open positions
14
12
Jobs
Junior
33.3%
Middle
25%
Senior
25%
Staff
8.3%
Architect
8.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 4 | $75k | $70k – $89k |
| Middle | 3 | $92k | $65k – $140k |
| Senior | 3 | $78k | $65k – $80k |
| Staff | 1 | $75k | $75k |
| Architect | 1 | $185k | $185k |
Highest paying role
Director, IT & Enterprise
$185k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Home Chef
By role, level and city, against the market · 14 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
81/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
32
12 opened / 25 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
86 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
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.
Hospitality
26% ▲
Field & Service
20%
Operations
11% ▼
Industrial Engineering
11% ▲
Analytics
6% ▼
Management
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Hospitality (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added LLM to stack
Oct 2026
Added GMP to stack
Oct 2026
Added CAPA to stack
Oct 2026
Added Ruby to stack
Oct 2026
Added React.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added Slack to stack
Oct 2026
Added Ruby on Rails to stack
Oct 2026
Added React Native to stack
Oct 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added Heroku to stack
Oct 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Bedford Park
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
5
Countries
1
Busiest office
Chicago
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Chicago
United States
HQ
Chicago, IL
9 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 11% engineering 50-200 est. staff $93k Avg Salary
hires for Hospitality, Backend, Leadership
Atlanta
United States
Plant / site
Atlanta, GA
9 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $34k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Hospitality
Bedford Park
United States
Plant / site
Bedford Park, IL
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $77k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Hospitality, HR
San Bernardino
United States
Plant / site
San Bernardino, CA
5 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $79k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Operations, Industrial Engineering
Baltimore
United States
Plant / site
Baltimore, MD
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Field & Service
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$125k – $140k per year · In office · 1+ year exp · Chicago
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