Senior Backend Software Engineer, Search

🕒 April 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $168k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Hungryroot

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🛍️ eCommerce

🧘 Wellness

👥 B2C

eCommerce • Wellness • B2C

Hungryroot is a personalized, healthy food delivery service that focuses on making healthy eating accessible and convenient. The company offers tailored meal plans and easy-to-prepare recipes that cater to a variety of dietary preferences and goals, including gluten-free, vegetarian, high-protein, dairy-free, and more. Customers can save time on meal planning, shopping, and cooking, while reducing food waste and saving money. Hungryroot emphasizes fresh, whole foods and provides a wide range of meal options to support different nutritional needs. It aims to help customers achieve their health goals, such as reducing inflammation or increasing energy, with a flexible and budget-friendly subscription model.

📋 Description

• Own the search service end-to-end: index design, query pipelines, relevance tuning, cluster health, scaling, and upgrades of our OpenSearch infrastructure. • Drive important technical discussions around search architecture, hybrid retrieval strategies, embedding model selection, scoring/normalization pipelines, and personalization and help the team arrive at the best possible solution given any constraints we may face. • Work closely with engineering leads and product stakeholders to translate business requirements (e.g., new facets, dietary filtering, personalized ranking) into performant search features. • Contribute directly to feature development across the search stack: document mapping, query builders, function scoring, KNN vector search, and the text embeddings inference sidecar. • Incorporate AI-powered development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) into daily workflows to accelerate prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation, and help establish best practices for the team's adoption of these tools. • Help raise the bar on code quality and enforce engineering discipline through code review feedback, testing, technical presentations, and opportunistic refactoring. • Participate in the interview process for other senior, mid, or junior engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience • 3+ yrs of hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch (index design, cluster management, query DSL) • 2+ yrs of experience with semantic/vector search techniques (KNN, approximate nearest neighbor algorithms such as HNSW, embedding models) • 3+ yrs of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day environment • 2+ yrs of experience building and tuning search relevance (BM25, function scoring, hybrid retrieval pipelines) • 2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issues in search or data-intensive systems • Active experience using AI-powered developer tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to augment coding, debugging, and problem-solving workflows

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide! • Equity • Unlimited vacation policy • Universal paid parental leave • Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance • 401k with Company Match • A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup