About Us
Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We act 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
The Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team designs and builds the foundational systems that power Hungryroot’s fulfillment and operations platform while enabling the broader engineering organization to scale. Our team owns the shared systems that support inventory, order processing, fulfillment workflows, and operational tooling. We also build and improve platform capabilities that enable our engineering, customer experience, and data science teams to build, deploy, and operate with greater reliability, consistency, and efficiency.
You’ll work closely with team members across Engineering, Operations, Product, Customer Experience, Data, and Infrastructure to solve technical challenges that span multiple systems and teams. The engineers who are most successful on our team proactively engage with stakeholders, identify opportunities to improve our platform, and enjoy solving complex problems while balancing technical tradeoffs. We encourage thoughtful use of modern AI assisted development tools to improve productivity and software quality while reinforcing strong engineering judgment and code ownership
Senior Engineers on the Platform team have a proven track record of leading complex cross-functional initiatives, proactively identifying technical risks, and helping teams solve difficult problems to deliver high-quality solutions. They are comfortable driving technical discussions, evaluating tradeoffs, and influencing architectural direction through collaboration and sound engineering judgment. If you enjoy designing scalable backend systems, simplifying operational workflows, and solving distributed systems problems that have a direct impact on both the business and customer experience, you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of Hungryroot’s most important technical challenges.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and own mission-critical platform systems and integrations that support operations, fulfillment, data science, and other engineering teams
Partner with stakeholders and engineering leaders to define technical approaches, estimate effort, and break down large initiatives into incremental deliverables that enable faster, iterative delivery
Drive technical discussions, evaluate tradeoffs, and help the team arrive at practical solutions that balance business needs with long-term maintainability
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, responding to production incidents, troubleshooting complex system issues, and driving improvements to reliability, observability, and operational excellence
Help raise the bar on code quality and engineering discipline through code reviews, testing, automation, technical documentation, and opportunistic refactoring
Participate in the interview process of other engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions
Qualifications
5+ years of professional software development experience
3+ years of professional Python development experience
Professional experience building backend services using Django (preferred), Flask, FastAPI, or a similar Python web framework
Strong SQL experience, including relational data modeling, raw queries, and performance tuning
Experience designing, deploying, and operating production applications in AWS or another major cloud platform
Experience translating ambiguous business or technical problems into actionable engineering plans, including technical design, estimation, and incremental delivery
Experience using observability platforms such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar tools to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of production systems
Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude Code) to accelerate learning, improve development efficiency, and assist with debugging and testing while maintaining high standards for engineering best practices and code quality
Nice to Haves
Experience with operations, logistics, fulfillment, inventory, supply chain, or e-commerce systems
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (such as Terraform)
Experience with Docker and container-based deployment workflows
Experience with asynchronous technologies (such as Celery)
Experience with workflow orchestration or job scheduling frameworks (such as Dyrygent)
Experience using React or similar frontend frameworks
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
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
401k with Company Match
A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup
Expected Pay Range:
$160,000-$180,000
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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.
