Location: On-site — Vinayak Riverside, Raysan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Type: Full-time

Experience: Any level — palate, skill, and drive matter more than years

Start: Immediate

Team: Product / R&D;

ABOUT GUTBASKET

GutBasket is India's first probiotic fermentation brand — live cultures, traditional recipes, modern formulations, all lab-tested for safety. We make it easy for people to take control of their gut health at home, starting with fermentation kits that let customers make their own probiotics from scratch.

We're a small, bootstrapped, profitable team that takes the food as seriously as the science. Everyone here wears multiple hats and takes real ownership of what they make.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're in the business of fermentation — and there's an enormous range of recipes and flavours we haven't built yet. We're looking for someone who loves developing food: creating new fermentation recipes from scratch, building spice blends through real experimentation, and turning the best of them into products and recipes our customers can actually make.

This is a hands-on, kitchen-and-lab role. You'll experiment, taste, document, and iterate. Whether you come from a food-science background or a culinary one, what matters is a good palate, a curious mind, and the discipline to turn a happy accident into a repeatable result. You'll learn our domain deeply — fermentation, gut health, and the science behind it.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Develop current fermentation recipes — take an idea from first trial to a tested, repeatable result.
- Create and experiment with new spice blends — some become standalone product launches, others power new recipes we share with our customers.




- Document and standardise everything — turn each recipe into a clear SOP (ratios, timings, salt/brine %, temperatures) so results are repeatable at home and at scale.
- Run shelf-life and safety testing — track pH, stability, and basic food safety, working with the team and partner labs.
- Help bring recipes to life as content — work with the content and video team on recipe photos, videos, and posts for customers.
- Build a growing library — keep experimenting, log what works and what doesn't, and iterate fast.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- A genuine love of food and flavour — and a good palate to back it up.
- A food-science / food-technology OR culinary background — either works; curiosity and skill matter more than the exact path.
- Methodical and organised — you log your experiments and can reproduce a result, not just land it once by luck.
- Hands-on and experiment-driven — happy to try, fail, adjust, and try again.
- Any level — palate, skill, and drive matter more than years.

NICE TO HAVE (NOT REQUIRED)
- Hands-on fermentation experience — kimchi, achaar, kanji, sauerkraut, kefir, dosa/idli batters, and the like.
- Familiarity with food-safety basics: pH, hygiene, and shelf-life.
- A real interest in gut health and nutrition — you'll go deep here.
- Comfort styling food or being on camera for recipe content.

WHY GUTBASKET

- Build the actual products customers use — your recipes and blends ship and reach thousands of kitchens.
- Work directly with the founders, with fast feedback and real ownership.
- Shape a genuinely new category in Indian gut health.
- Friendly, honest, low-ego team. We take the work seriously, not ourselves.
- Flexible leaves — output matters, not attendance.

📌 Recipe Developer (Gandhinagar)
🏢 GUTBasket
📍 Gandhinagar