Senior Software Engineer, Backend, API

August 28

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Hungryroot

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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.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🛍️ eCommerce

🧘 Wellness

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. It acts as your personal assistant for healthy living—getting to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and recommending and delivering healthy groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements for you and your family. • It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. We believe food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and that everyone is unique in how they eat and live. That’s why we’re building a future in which healthy living is both easy and enjoyable. • Hungryroot is a distributed team of top talent across 28+ U.S. states. While we have a headquarters in New York City, our remote-first culture emphasizes collaboration, team-building, and flexibility. Expect regular virtual team events, strong ownership and accountability, and an annual company retreat. • About the Role: Hungryroot is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing API Engineering team. This senior software engineer will drive the technical design, implementation, testing and maintenance of important features and integrations on the backend team. They rely on their own experience while performing additional research as necessary, to arrive at the best solution for each task. • They can independently execute projects, proactively raise issues and resourcefully unblock themselves. Some form of mentoring and guiding less experienced or new developers on the team is required. They can constructively debate any issue, persuade others with hard evidence while staying objective and open to changing their mind. They will be the backbone of our entire API engineering team. • Responsibilities: Own critical overarching aspects of engineering infrastructure. Drive important technical discussions and help the team arrive at the best possible solution given constraints. Work closely with engineering leads on planning and execution of large, complex projects. Contribute directly to important feature development and maintenance. 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 of other senior, mid, or junior engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience. • 3+ yrs of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day env. • 3+ yrs of designing and extending RESTful APIs. • 3+ yrs of experience working with a web framework such as Django (preferred), Flask, Rails. • 2+ yrs of relational SQL experience. • 2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issues

🏖️ 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