Tarro's Tech Team

At the heart of Tarro’s work is evergreen curiosity. “We encourage employees to explore ways to apply new tech to impactful projects,” said CTO Andrew Lin. Every employee, from the C-suite to engineering, is encouraged to experiment. Software Engineer Tim Ward explained, “Especially as a principal, a lot of my job is to find new tech to keep our stack current, secure and ready for the next thing.” For Product Manager Nitin Viswanathan, stoking innovation comes down to cultivating an undying sense of wonder — through collaboration, conversation and exploration. “We’re always looking at new ways to run our business,” he said. “Everyone is excited to discuss not just what solutions we can build today, but what we can build down the road.”

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We’re a team of builders and first-principles thinkers that expects everyone to be highly technical and able to operate with less process.

Andrew Lin, CTO

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For Lin, the perfect balance between gathering data and setting it in motion lies in the moment when conviction is born. “We gather enough data to build faith in a direction, but not so much that we spend more time gathering than delivering,” he said. Making contact with the market begets the best data, he added — it ensures optimization for fast execution and iteration, which are key to the product and engineering teams’ process. To achieve this, Lin encourages holistic thinking and clear communication. “A great workplace is one where the talent bar is high and teammates can think orthogonally,” he said.

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What’s notable about Tarro is how closely and well the different organizations collaborate. We run a tight end-to-end flow internally, which leads to creating a great end-to-end experience for our users.

Nitin Viswanathan, Director of Product

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On a typical day, Viswanathan finds himself deep in a cross-functional flow with his colleagues, including engineers, designers, client success managers and operations professionals. “Our number one priority at Tarro is velocity — moving fast and in the right direction,” said Viswanathan. With this shared desire for expediency, every team member is poised to deliver outsized impact in the company — and in the community. “We’re all looking to create the best possible experience for restaurants,” he said. “We contribute in different ways, but the impact is the same.”

Tarro's engineering teams are structured to give individual engineers wide latitude to really dig in and make an impact without an overbearing process that slows things down.

Tim Ward, Principal Software Engineer

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Ward is driven by his goal to amplify both the velocity and code quality of his team. “This means taking best-in-class tech and making it simple enough for junior engineers to leverage,” he said. The ultimate vision is to build a financial engineering stack capable of production-level quality and scale for Tarro’s entire ecosystem. Right now, he is in the midst of working on a unified monorepo. “The purpose is to help engineers all work together in a unified system of robustly built modules,” Ward said. “Simply put: the project will allow really small teams to have massive impact,” he added.