Functional food brand scaling e-commerce and physical retail across Europe and Asia
Vilgain is a Prague-based functional food company built on Shopify + AWS infrastructure, now actively hiring across marketing, ops, and product roles in nine countries. The hiring velocity and project mix signal expansion beyond their home market: go-to-market launches in Western Europe and Asia, omnichannel integration, and new physical retail alongside e-commerce. Engineering is resource-constrained (5 hires) relative to the complexity of their stack (Odoo, WMS, GraphQL APIs), and pain points around Odoo incidents and warehouse automation suggest operational scaling is outpacing technical infrastructure.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Technology Officer
Vilgain manufactures and sells functional food products and supplements direct-to-consumer via e-commerce and physical retail. The company operates from Prague and was founded in 2020. Their digital infrastructure runs on Shopify for e-commerce and Odoo for backend operations, hosted on AWS with containerized services (ECS, EKS) and monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana. They maintain development velocity through GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines. Current expansion is geographically focused: they are hiring in Czechia, Germany, Poland, UK, Austria, Italy, Canada, the US, and Vietnam, with active projects around new product launches, Western European and Asian market entry, warehouse automation, and supply chain optimization.
Vilgain runs Shopify for e-commerce, Odoo for backend operations, and AWS infrastructure (ECS, EKS, RDS) with monitoring via Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic. Frontend is PHP/Nette with GraphQL APIs. They use Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
Vilgain has 5 active engineering roles open across 91 total positions and is notably hiring a Chief Technology Officer. Most hiring volume is in marketing (25 roles), operations (14), and product (14), indicating ops and go-to-market scale outpaces engineering staffing.
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