[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer @Hungryroot

Role Description

Hungryroot is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our growing Engineering team. This senior software engineer will drive the technical design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and quality of important features and integrations on the backend team. These include:

• REST API endpoints
• Database schema changes
• Translating business logic
• Performance tuning
• Security hardening
• 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. 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 any constraints.
• Be a sounding board to other engineers and offer assistance in solving difficult problems.
• Work closely with engineering leads on planning and execution of large, complex projects.
• Contribute directly to important feature development, maintenance, and quality.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience
• 3+ yrs of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day environment
• 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

Requirements

• Full-stack engineering experience is a big plus
• Proficient in leveraging modern AI-powered developer tooling
• Experience with AWS and its various core services
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC Tools)
• Proficiency working with Git
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field

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

Expected Pay Range

$168,000 - $210,000