Cookpad Ltd, a global online recipe sharing and cooking community, welcomed four new senior staff to its growing Bristol-based team in just three weeks.

Mark Wheatley has joined the product team at Cookpad Ltd, which last year chose Bristol as its new global headquarters. He will work with head of product Anthony Sullivan to develop rapidly moving and user-driven products which solve problems and offer solutions through technology.

New senior site reliability engineer Edward Robinson, who arrived from retail tech expert Reevoo in November, will be responsible for ensuring Cookpad Ltd’s solutions continue to operate efficiently through rapid expansion while new search engineer David Gero will work to enhance Cookpad Ltd’s search capabilities.

Rebecca Mears has taken up the role of lead community manager at Cookpad Ltd, to build and develop communities of home cooking enthusiasts united by Cookpad Ltd in all the 60 countries where it operates. She brings seven years’ experience overseeing Mumsnet.com’s vast digital community and has an extensive freelance digital marketing, social media and business development portfolio.

Mark brings 15 years’ experience working on multi-media digital products at Nokia, Mixradio and Microsoft. He went on to co-found Audiogum, a music and audio intelligence platform that uses next-generation recommendation and personalisation technology.

He said:

“It is a great opportunity to work alongside such a high calibre of talent in a company that exhorts ambition and has a vision to help people be healthier and improve family cohesion. Having such a noble cause is rare in tech start-ups. It's this refreshing culture which cemented my desire to work for Cookpad Ltd.”

The tech company, which is a subsidiary of hugely popular Japanese Cookpad Inc, has embarked on a major recruitment drive to attract the most talented developers and engineers to its Bristol-based team to grow and develop the platform and its offering across the rest of the world.

Having taken over a beautiful Grade II listed building on Broad Plain, Bristol city centre, Cookpad Ltd, which currently operates in 22 languages across 60 countries worldwide, now aims to expand its team from 36 to at least 100 people by Spring 2018.

Cookpad Ltd’s senior management want to recruit staff who are not only top of their field in terms of their chosen development platform but who also buy into the Cookpad mission to make the world a better place through cooking and bring people together through this shared passion.

Anthony Sullivan said:

“Cookpad Ltd offers a really exciting start-up environment for talented developers and engineers along with the opportunity to immerse themselves in Bristol’s thriving tech movement. To date we have seen an extraordinary standard of applications looking for chance to join us as a foundation member of this global enterprise”.

Cookpad Ltd’s senior management is still actively recruiting for roles across engineering, product and design and operations.

More about Cookpad:

Cookpad’s parent company has been running for 20 years in Japan and has a huge following in its country of origin, with 80 per cent of women in Japan using the platform. Now it plans to replicate this success in the rest of the world.

The platform is already proving popular in Spain, Indonesia, Hungary and more with 90 million unique users per month worldwide. But the recipe sharing platform is just one small part of what Cookpad plans to offer long term with the team testing machine learning solutions for other products and services.

https://info.cookpad.com/en/careers/open-positions