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Assistant Chef
Xendit
Jakarta, Indonesia
Posted on Oct 9, 2025
Xendit provides payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. We process payments, power marketplaces, disburse payroll and loans, provide KYC solutions, prevent fraud, and help businesses grow exponentially. We serve our customers by providing a suite of world-class APIs, eCommerce platform integrations, and easy to use applications for individual entrepreneurs, SMEs, and enterprises alike.
Our main focus is building the most advanced payment rails for Southeast Asia, with a clear goal in mind — to make payments across and within SEA simple, secure and easy for everyone. We serve thousands of businesses ranging from SMEs to multinational enterprises, and process millions of transactions monthly. We’ve been growing rapidly since our inception in 2015, onboarding hundreds of new customers every month, and backed by global top-10 VCs. We’re proud to be featured on among the fastest growing companies by Y-Combinator.
About the Job
As an assistant chef in Xendit, you will be responsible for managing staff meals production for approx more than 150 pax per day, lunch, and additional requests. Each meal time we will have to provide different menus everyday which are Indonesian, Western and Asian. You will be working with 2 helpers and 1 chef. The area you will be involved in all areas of kitchen operations — from food preparation, cooking, plating, to maintaining kitchen cleanliness and hygiene standards throughout the entire production process. You will be expected to be able to produce stable and better quality even if the number of production increases. In addition to food preparation, you will be responsible for ensuring strict food hygiene and sanitation practices, including proper food storage, personal hygiene, cleaning routines and compliance with food safety standards. A clean, safe and organized kitchen is essential to your daily responsibilities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Diploma or SMK in culinary AND minimum of 1 year of experience working in a food production
- You are happy doing all kitchen work from menu cooking and cleanup
- You care a lot about health and food safety
- You work well independently, without any guidance
- You get along easily with people of varying backgrounds/education
- You communicate well across teams, in both English and Bahasa
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferably male
- The strongest candidates will have worked:
- in a events & catering company
- in a restaurant that serves more than 50 guests in a sitting
Responsibilities
- Provide tasty, hygienic, and healthy foods for Xendit Staff’s meals
- Work with the head chef to build excellent kitchen management
- Vendor management
- Kitchen hygiene
- Develop a powerful kitchen team
- Stable quality production
- Deal with both complaints and compliments with a great attitude - always look for a way to improve
- Managing Xendit’s catering for good quality food that will help keep and increase employers’ productivity and happiness.
- Helping the Chef to prepare another supporting items such as creative slack announcements, soundtracks for the event, and any other fresh ideas to enrich the lunch/event experience
