Italian online grocer connecting consumers directly to local farmers with same-day delivery
Cortilia operates Italy's largest fresh-food e-commerce platform, built on a Java/Spring Boot + Docker stack with mature observability (Datadog) and CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD). The company is heavily weighted toward supply-chain and logistics challenges—inventory optimization, demand forecasting, and 3PL coordination dominate the active project and pain-point lists—suggesting the fulfillment side, not the storefront, is the primary constraint on growth.
Cortilia is a B Corp–certified online grocer founded in 2011 and based in Lombardy, Italy. The company operates a direct-to-consumer marketplace connecting Italian households with curated local producers (farmers, fisheries, dairies, bakers). Customers order one-off or subscription boxes of fresh produce, proteins, and specialty foods, with same-day or next-day delivery. The business aggregates small producers into virtual markets to improve their reach while maintaining supply freshness through a just-in-time fulfillment model. The company employs 51–200 people and hires exclusively in Italy.
Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Python, Docker, SQL, GitHub Copilot, Datadog for observability, Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD for deployment, Zendesk for support, Tableau for analytics, and Bitbucket for version control.
Cortilia is focused on supply-chain and logistics optimization: demand planning, inventory management, delivery forecasting, warehouse layout, 3PL coordination, and procurement solutions. Recent work includes dashboard creation, monitoring tools, and AI-first development standards.