Build Food Security
for the Caribbean
Jamaica's first real-time grocery price intelligence platform. We're building tools to help families make smarter grocery decisions—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, 15 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, 29,000+ products tracked, 16 stores across 11 chains. 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 make smarter grocery decisions 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:
Growth & Community Lead
Build Jamaica's grocery savings movement from the ground up
BuyersMarket has a working product tracking 29,000+ products across 16 stores. Now we need someone to put it in the hands of Jamaican families. This isn't a "post on social media" role — it's a grassroots movement-building role. You'll go to community centers, universities, markets, and WhatsApp groups to show people how to save money on groceries.
What You'll Do:
- Build and manage WhatsApp communities of price-conscious shoppers across parishes
- Create TikTok/Instagram content showing real people saving real money (not stock photos)
- Develop university ambassador and community partnership programs
- Design referral mechanics and viral loops that drive organic growth
- Own the full funnel: awareness → download → first price check → weekly usage → advocacy
- Track everything — you'll have dashboards showing exactly what's working
What We're Looking For:
- You live in Jamaica and understand how Jamaicans shop, communicate, and make decisions
- Experience growing a consumer product, community, or social media following (show us the numbers)
- You know TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp inside out — not as a marketer, as a user
- Scrappy and resourceful: you can create a viral moment with a phone camera and good instincts
- You care about food security and cost of living — this isn't just a job, it's personal
- Data-literate: you can read a dashboard and pivot based on what's working
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 & Scraping Engineer
Keep Jamaica's grocery prices accurate, fresh, and growing
BuyersMarket runs 11 automated data collectors that gather prices from Jamaican grocery stores every morning. These deal with Cloudflare protection, IP blocking, currency conversion bugs, Shopify APIs, and custom PHP stores — each with its own quirks. You'll own this entire pipeline: keeping existing collectors running, adding new stores, and ensuring every price that reaches a user is accurate.
What You'll Do:
- Maintain and improve 11 production data collectors (httpx, Playwright, Flare-Solverr)
- Add new Jamaican stores to expand coverage from 16 to 30+ stores
- Build and maintain data quality pipelines: outlier detection, deduplication, validation against CAC government baselines
- Monitor pipeline health via Cloud Logging/Grafana and fix failures before they affect users
- Optimize Cloud Run costs while scaling data collection
- Collaborate on ML models for price forecasting and anomaly detection (Prophet, Isolation Forest)
What We're Looking For:
- 2+ years Python experience with web data collection or data engineering in production
- You've dealt with anti-bot protection, rate limiting, or dynamic content extraction
- Comfortable with PostgreSQL, SQL queries, and data quality concepts
- Cloud experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)
- You enjoy detective work — figuring out why a pipeline that worked yesterday returns 0 products today
- Bonus: experience with Playwright, Shopify/WooCommerce APIs, or Caribbean e-commerce sites
Why This Role Is Special:
- Solve genuinely hard technical challenges at the intersection of data collection, ML, and scale
- Modern stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, GCP, Cloud Build, Terraform
- High autonomy: Own the entire data infrastructure and architectural decisions
- Direct impact: Your pipelines power price intelligence for thousands daily
Mobile Engineer (Flutter)
Build the app that helps Jamaican families save on groceries
BuyersMarket's Flutter app is live on iOS and Android with 40 screens, barcode scanning, receipt OCR via Gemini Vision AI, AI shopping assistant, gamification with 30 3D badges, and push notifications. You'll take this from "functional beta" to "polished public release" — focusing on performance, UX refinement, and the features that drive retention.
What You'll Do:
- Optimize app performance for mid-range Android devices (startup time, scroll performance, memory usage)
- Polish UI/UX based on beta tester feedback — small improvements that drive big retention gains
- Build new features: store-level price browsing, enhanced price history charts, shopping list sharing
- Maintain and improve existing systems: Riverpod state management, Dio API client, Hive offline storage
- Ensure App Store and Google Play compliance for public launch
- Write widget and unit tests for critical user flows
What We're Looking For:
- 2+ years Flutter/Dart with at least one production app on App Store or Play Store
- Strong UI instincts — you notice when a list scrolls at 45fps instead of 60fps
- Experience with RESTful APIs, authentication flows, and offline-first patterns
- Comfortable working autonomously with a small team (you + founder)
- Bonus: Firebase, Riverpod, or consumer app experience
- Bonus: familiarity with the Jamaican market or Caribbean consumer apps
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: Flutter 3.16+, Riverpod, Go Router, Firebase, RevenueCat
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 data 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.