Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About Us

Hungryroot is your partner in healthy living. We get to know your lifestyle, budget, health objectives, and preferences, and we recommend and deliver nutritious groceries, easy recipes and essential supplements for you and your family. It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time at the store and in the kitchen, and live a healthy (and delicious) life. Founded on the belief that food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and we’re all unique in how we eat and live, Hungryroot is building a future in which healthy living is easy and enjoyable.

We are a distributed team built on top talent from over 28 states across the U.S. While we have a headquarters in New York City, we support employees working from wherever they are based. We believe in fostering team connection and collaboration across all of our employees' locations. Expect to attend regular team building events and an annual company retreat. Expect to be treated like an owner who cares about our common goal, not someone who has to clock in and out of work.

About the Role

At Hungryroot, our mission is to serve as our customers’ personal assistant for healthy living, helping them feel better on a daily basis and have more time to do what they love. This Senior Software Engineer will have an opportunity to drive technical design, implementation, integrations, testing and maintenance of important features on the Platform Team. This individual will work on areas including  REST API endpoints, database schema changes, translating business logic, performance tuning, security hardening and other critical features. 

We are looking for someone who  can independently execute projects, proactively raise issues and resourcefully unblock themselves. We are also looking for someone who is excited about mentoring and guiding less experienced or new developers on the team and for a team player who can constructively debate any issue, persuade others with hard evidence while staying objective and open to changing their mind. This individual will help support our growing Platform team.

Responsibilities

• Own mission-critical and high scale systems and integrations, particularly those that support operations and data science 
• Drive important technical discussions and help the team arrive at the best possible solution given any constraints we may face. Be a sounding board to other engineers and willing to offer assistance in helping solve challenging  problems
• 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+ years of commercial software development experience
• 3+ years of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day environment
• 2+ years of experience working with a web framework such as Django (Required), Flask, Rails
• 3+ years of relational SQL experience
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting production issues
• Excited to collaborate with great teammates and be positive and constructive in communication
• Excellent grasp of computer science concepts like algorithms, data structures, complexity, and common design patterns
• Proficient in debugging and troubleshooting, especially when it comes to backend systems or background processes

Nice to Haves

• Working knowledge in JavaScript and React.js
• Clear written documentation and technical communication 
• Experience working with AWS (S3, Elasticache/Redis, Redshift)
• Experience working with build systems (Github Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis)
• Experience with test automation systems like PlayWright

Perks & 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
• Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Spring Health, LiveHealth, Rightway care concierge, and more
• 401k with match
• A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup

Expected Pay Range:
$144,000 - $180,000

The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.