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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (API)

Hungryroot

$160,000 - $180,000
Sep 16, 2025
New York, NY, US
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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.

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 Django
  • 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.
  • Perform database schema changes.
  • Translate business logic into code.
  • Performance tuning of backend systems.
  • Security hardening of backend systems.
  • Own critical overarching aspects of engineering infrastructure.

Other

  • Mentoring and guiding less experienced or new developers on the team is required.
  • Can 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.
  • 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