Hungryroot is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to drive the technical design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of important features and integrations on the backend team, including REST API endpoints, database schema changes, translating business logic, performance tuning, and security hardening.
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.
Responsibilities
- Drive the technical design, implementation, testing and maintenance of important features and integrations on the backend team.
- Design and implement REST API endpoints, database schema changes, translate business logic, performance tuning, and security hardening.
- Own critical overarching aspects of engineering infrastructure, including the system by which all services are strung together, or 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.
- 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
Other
- Mentoring and guiding less experienced or new developers on the team.
- Constructively debate any issue, persuade others with hard evidence while staying objective and open to changing their mind.
- Work closely with engineering leads on planning and execution of large, complex projects.
- Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
- Proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace.
