Build Food Security
for the Caribbean
Jamaica's first real-time grocery price intelligence platform. We're helping families save 15-20% on groceries—and we're just getting started.
Where We Are Right Now
BuyersMarket is currently founder-led with a production-ready MVP. We're preparing for beta launch (150-200 users) to validate product-market fit before building our team.
Solo Founder
PhD founder who built the entire stack—backend, mobile, infrastructure, everything
Beta Ready
Production infrastructure, 31 stores covered, launching Q1 2026
Raising Capital
$500K seed round to scale team, users, and market coverage
Why Join BuyersMarket?
We're not building another SaaS tool. We're solving a crisis that affects 500,000+ Caribbean families who spend up to 47% of their income on food.
Solve a Real Problem
Families spend 36-47% of income on food with zero price transparency. We're changing that.
Proven Traction
Working MVP, 18,324 products tracked, 31 stores covered. Not vaporware—production-ready infrastructure.
Technical Excellence
Modern stack (Flutter, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, GCP), comprehensive test coverage, clean codebase.
Direct Impact
See your work help thousands of families save 15-20% on groceries within weeks of shipping.
Work With Purpose
Join a PhD founder who codes. Technical collaboration without corporate bureaucracy.
Caribbean-First
Build for your community, not Silicon Valley. Remote-friendly with flexible hours.
Full-Time Roles (Post-Funding)
Once we close our $500K seed round and validate product-market fit through beta, we'll hire three core team members:
Senior Mobile Engineer (Flutter/Dart)
Build the app helping thousands of Jamaicans save on groceries
Own mobile development for Jamaica's first real-time grocery price intelligence platform. Ship features that directly reduce family food costs across the Caribbean.
What You'll Do:
- Architect and build core features: barcode scanning, personalized price alerts, smart shopping lists
- Optimize app performance for low-end Android devices (primary market)
- Integrate Firebase push notifications, PaddleOCR receipt scanning, and real-time data feeds
- Collaborate directly with founder on product roadmap and technical decisions
- Own the entire mobile experience across iOS and Android from a single Flutter codebase
What We're Looking For:
- 3+ years Flutter/Dart experience with production apps in App Store & Play Store
- Strong UI/UX instincts—you obsess over user experience and visual polish
- Experience with RESTful APIs, real-time data, and authentication flows
- Self-starter who thrives with autonomy and ships fast
- Bonus: Firebase, payment integrations, or consumer fintech experience
Why This Role Is Special:
- See your features used by thousands within weeks, not buried in corporate backlogs
- Work directly with PhD founder who codes—technical collaboration, not layers of management
- Solve real problems: 55% of Jamaica faces food insecurity. Your code changes lives.
- Modern stack, production-grade infrastructure, comprehensive test coverage from day one
Growth & Community Lead
Launch a movement, not just a marketing campaign
Lead grassroots community building and digital growth to bring grocery price transparency to Jamaica. Own user acquisition from WhatsApp groups to university partnerships.
What You'll Do:
- Build and activate WhatsApp communities, church partnerships, and university ambassador programs
- Create viral TikTok and Instagram content showcasing real users saving real money
- Design and execute growth experiments: referral mechanics, gamification, viral loops
- Partner with micro-influencers and local community leaders authentically
- Own the full funnel: awareness → download → activation → retention → advocacy
- Track metrics obsessively and iterate based on what actually drives growth
What We're Looking For:
- Deep roots in Jamaican communities—churches, universities, social groups, online spaces
- Proven track record in digital marketing, growth, or community management
- Natural storyteller who knows how to make people care about a product
- Data-driven: you test, measure, pivot based on performance
- Scrappy and resourceful: 10X results on startup budgets
- Bonus: Experience with consumer apps, fintech, or social impact initiatives
Why This Role Is Special:
- Ground-floor role: Define the playbook for Caribbean consumer tech marketing
- Full creative autonomy—no corporate approval chains or restrictive brand guidelines
- Work on something people desperately need (not another SaaS tool nobody wants)
- Commission structure: Win when the company wins
Data Engineer
Build the data infrastructure powering Caribbean price intelligence
Scale scraping and data pipelines from 100 to 200+ stores while maintaining quality and cost efficiency. Build the backbone of real-time price intelligence.
What You'll Do:
- Architect and maintain automated scraping for 200+ retailer websites (Scrapy, Playwright, httpx)
- Build robust data validation pipelines ensuring price accuracy before display
- Optimize cloud infrastructure costs while scaling data collection 3-5x
- Design anomaly detection systems catching pricing errors and scraper failures
- Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting for data freshness and pipeline health
- Collaborate on ML models for price prediction and intelligent product matching
What We're Looking For:
- 3+ years Python experience with production data engineering projects
- Strong web scraping expertise (Scrapy, Playwright, Selenium, or similar)
- Database proficiency: PostgreSQL, data modeling, query optimization
- Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)
- You love hard problems: anti-scraping detection, rate limiting, dynamic content
- Bonus: Redis, OpenSearch, data quality tooling, or OCR systems experience
Why This Role Is Special:
- Solve genuinely hard technical challenges at the intersection of scraping, ML, and scale
- Modern stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, GCP, GitHub Actions
- High autonomy: Own the entire data infrastructure and architectural decisions
- Direct impact: Your pipelines power price intelligence for thousands daily
Interested in Joining Our Team?
We're currently in pre-funding phase. Once we secure seed funding and complete beta validation, we'll actively recruit for these roles. Want to be first in line?
Advisory Board
Strategic guidance from Caribbean entrepreneurs, retail experts, and expansion specialists who help shape BuyersMarket's growth.
Advisory Positions Available
We're seeking two additional advisors to round out our board with complementary expertise:
Grocery Retail Executive
Open doors to merchant partnerships and retail strategy
Senior leader with 10+ years in Jamaican grocery retail operations who can guide merchant partnerships and navigate retailer relationships.
What We Need From You:
- Deep understanding of retailer pricing strategies and profit margins
- Relationships with category managers and executives at major chains
- Strategic guidance on merchant subscription positioning ($5-15K/month)
- Insights into retail media and how CPG brands work with retailers
- Help navigating potential legal or competitive concerns
Ideal Background:
- Former/current executive at PriceSmart, Progressive Grocers, MegaMart, Hi-Lo, or similar
- Senior buyer, merchandising director, or operations head
- GraceKennedy Foods division leadership with retail relationships
- Retail consultant with deep Jamaica grocery market knowledge
Why Advise BuyersMarket?
- Help solve food insecurity affecting 55% of Jamaica
- Shape the future of Caribbean retail transparency
- Ground-floor equity in category-defining startup
- Limited time commitment with high strategic impact
International Investor / Regional Expansion Expert
Guide Series A fundraising and Caribbean expansion strategy
Investor or operator with Caribbean expansion and international fundraising expertise who can help us scale beyond Jamaica.
What We Need From You:
- Series A fundraising guidance and investor introductions (US, UK, Caribbean)
- Regional expansion playbook: Jamaica → Trinidad → Barbados → broader Caribbean
- International investor network and introduction pathways
- Strategic advice on unit economics validation and scaling decisions
- Pitching expertise and financial model review
Ideal Background:
- Partner at Caribbean-focused VC fund (ATL Ventures, Blue Mahoe Capital, FirstAngelsJA)
- Operator who scaled a business across multiple Caribbean markets
- Emerging markets VC with Caribbean portfolio or interest
- Successful Caribbean entrepreneur who's raised Series A+ funding
Why Advise BuyersMarket?
- Back a mission-driven company solving a $6B+ regional problem
- Working MVP with clear traction and path to profitability
- Equity stake while still early-stage and high-growth
- Flexibility: advise from anywhere, limited time commitment
Interested in Joining Our Advisory Board?
If you have relevant experience in grocery retail, Caribbean expansion, or international fundraising, we'd love to hear from you. Limited equity positions available.
We review all applications and respond within 7 business days
Who's Building This
Dr. Jody-Ann S. Jones
Founder & CEO
BuyersMarket is currently a solo founder venture. I've built every component—every line of backend code, every Flutter widget, every scraping pipeline—to ensure quality and technical excellence from day one.
Technical proof: github.com/dasdatasensei
Ready to Make an Impact?
Whether you're interested in joining our team post-funding or advising us on our journey, we'd love to hear from you.