Senior Backend Software Engineer

Hungryroot is using AI to build a consumer-centric food and wellness company that provides personalized groceries, recipes, and supplements. The Senior Backend Software Engineer will lead the technical design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and quality of backend features and integrations, while driving complex projects, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering standards.

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, 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

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 issue
• 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