TECH & DIGITAL BUILDERS PROGRAMME
Tech to amplify Hospitality
For over a decade, Hunger Inc. has been driven by curiosity, creativity and the ambition to build exceptional food and hospitality experiences. From The Bombay Canteen and O Pedro to Bombay Sweet Shop, Veronica's and Papa's, we've built brands by challenging conventions, experimenting and putting people at the centre of everything we do.
In November 2025, we raised our Series A, welcoming DSG Consumer Partners and Lighthouse as investors. We're fortunate to have partners who have backed and helped scale ambitious consumer brands like Epigamia and Go Zero, bringing both experience and conviction to what we're building.
With their support, we're entering an exciting new chapter expanding our distribution for Bombay Sweet Shop, restaurants and retail footprint, investing in a next generation food production and innovation facility, and building larger communities around our brands through consistency, trust and meaningful relationships.
building food and hospitality brands
brands across restaurants,
cafés and mithai
orders over Diwali
Nov 2025, with DSG Consumer Partners and Lighthouse
There is an opportunity to develop our own technology capabilities, products and intellectual property that make Hunger Inc. a more intelligent, connected and scalable business.
To help us build this future, we're creating the Hunger Inc. Tech & Digital Builders Programme bringing together three exceptionally curious, technically capable and AI native builders who want to solve real problems and create meaningful impact.
HOW WE THINK
Get your hands dirty. Understand the problem. Then build.
We want builders as comfortable in a kitchen, café, production facility or warehouse as they are behind a computer. Sometimes the answer is an AI agent, a product or an integration. Sometimes it’s a simpler process, or better use of something we already have.
Understand deeply
Think independently
Build intelligently
Own the outcome
We’re not becoming a food-tech company. We want to be a tech-enabled hospitality company, where technology quietly amplifies what makes Hunger Inc. special.
SHOPIFY
Ananya Rao · ananya.rao@gmail.com
ROOT POS · CANTEEN
ANANYA R · Table 12 · 4 covers
TABLECHECK
Ananya · +91 98•• ••4410
SUPERLEAP
Ananya Rao (lead) · Corporate gifting
BLINKIT
Customer #4471 · No name shared
+91 98•• ••4410 · Diwali order query
Ananya Rao
3 brands · 6 systems · since 2016
One guest we should recognise.
Illustrative guest
THE PROGRAMME
Three builders. One team. Build technology that amplifies hospitality.
Three curious, technically capable, AI-native builders join our Founder’s Office tech team and work directly with Yash, Sam and leaders across operations, marketing, design, customer experience and finance. Each has clear ownership, with one shared roadmap.
PROBLEMS ON THE TABLE
Community and loyalty
Community → Trust → Loyalty → Reward
Understand our guests across brands and channels, then reward the most engaged ones: early access to chef experiments, product drops, private menus. Relationships, not points.
Smarter operations
Bombay Sweet Shop sells through aggregators, quick commerce, D2C, corporate gifting, stores and cafés, often with short shelf lives. Help us forecast demand, plan production and waste less.
AI-native growth
Connect brand, performance marketing, CRM and commerce so every campaign makes the next one smarter, without losing what makes each brand distinct.
AI-powered creative
Films, animation, product imagery and ad creatives. Build repeatable workflows our designers and marketers can use, not one-off pieces.
THE THREE ROLES
BUILDER 01
Product & Growth
Customer intelligence, CRM, loyalty, community, retention and growth experiments. Takes an ambiguous business problem from discovery to measurable impact.
BUILDER 02
Software & Systems
Backend, APIs, integrations, data, ERP and CRM connectivity, internal tools and automation. Builds and ships reliable things, and knows when a script beats a new system.
BUILDER 03
AI Creative Technologist
AI video, imagery, animation and creative automation with our brand, design and marketing teams. Turns ambitious ideas into systems others can use.
Apply
YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS
Understand
Immerse yourself in the business, its people and its systems.
Identify
Pick the problems that matter and run first experiments.
Deliver
Own a working pilot, measure it and decide what comes next.
WE’RE ALREADY BUILDING
Live and used every day
Procurement
Production
Fulfilment & transfers
Logistics
Costing
Accounts
Open-source ERPNext
An open-source ERP, chosen for flexibility and ownership, with AI that helps teams read and act on it.
Need 200 boxes for a Diwali gift order
Happy to help! Which city, and by when?
Routed to corporate gifting
Custom-built Boondi AI
Our conversational AI on WhatsApp. It handles high volumes of guest enquiries, works out intent and routes to the right team.
Fulfilment & logistics planner
Who ships what, and when
Ops & rider apps
On the floor and on the road
Collateral builder
Custom, on-brand, on demand
Marketing asset studio
Every format, every channel
Internal tools
Tools our teams use daily to plan, dispatch, deliver and see how the business is doing.
“A kaju katli racing through Bombay like a tiny sports car”
Brief
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Storyboard
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Frames
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Film
AI creatives
Generative AI in storytelling, animation, video and visual development for our marketing and content teams.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
Close to the people who run the business
Yash and Sam
Our founders, a desk away.
The Founder’s Office tech team
Already runs ERP, CRM and AI across the company.
Mentors and advisors
Experienced technologists guiding architecture, security and build-versus-buy calls.
GOOD TO KNOW
Before you apply
Where would I work?
Our team is in Mumbai, and hybrid or remote can work too. Either way, expect to spend real time in our kitchens, stores and warehouse, because that’s where the problems are.
How much experience do I need?
Most builders here will have roughly 2 to 5 years of work behind them. If you have less but can show things you’ve built, apply anyway.
How big is the team?
Small. You’ll own your work from the first conversation to the day it’s in use, and after that too.
What happens after I apply?
If it looks like a fit, we’ll talk, and you’ll do a short exercise based on a real problem of ours.
Sound like you?
Apply for the role that fits you best.
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