Senior Backend Software Engineer

Who We Are

Hungryroot is the all-in-one recipe and grocery service. We're here to help people feel their best and make grocery shopping, cooking, and enjoying healthy food easier than ever. So, we're creating the first-of-its-kind food experience that puts people (and the planet) first, built for busy lives and individual needs.

We are a distributed team built on top talent from across the U.S. While we have an office in NYC, we support employees creating "offices" wherever they are. We believe in fostering team connection and collaboration across all of our "offices" - so don't expect to be online at 6 am to make a meeting if you're on the West coast. Expect to attend regular team building events, and to be able to work from the beach every once in a while. 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

Hungryroot is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing Engineering team.

This senior software engineer will drive the technical design, implementation, testing and maintenance of important features and integrations on the backend team. These include REST API endpoints, database schema changes, translating business logic, performance tuning, security hardening and other critical features. 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. In short, they will be the backbone of our entire engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Own critical overarching aspects of engineering infrastructure. This does not necessarily mean owning any particular service, but rather, owning the system by which all the services are strung together, or owning the process by which services are designed, implemented and maintained.
• 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 very difficult 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+ 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

Perks & Benefits

• Remote Work Optional: Work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere, you decide!
• Competitive compensation + comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Monthly Hungryroot credit
• Universal paid parental leave
• 401k
• Commuter benefits
• A working environment filled with passionate, happy, smart people!

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Hungryroot is built on the values of being proactive, positive, and transparent in all that we do. 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 race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.