Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Salary: [Not Specified] Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-time

About Us

At Hungryroot, we believe food is personal and impacts our daily well-being. We're transforming the food system to make healthy eating effortless through a seamless digital experience. Hungryroot is building the most consumer-centric food and wellness company, empowering individuals to eat healthier and feel better. Our distributed team comprises top talent across the U.S., with a headquarters in New York City, and we support employees working from anywhere. We foster team connection through regular events and an annual company retreat, treating employees as owners invested in our common goal.

Our AI technology, SmartCart™, provides personalized meal planning and grocery shopping, recommending groceries and recipes based on individual preferences, dietary needs, budget, and goals. This saves time, reduces stress, and ensures access to fresh, nutritious options. Our intuitive platform offers variety and convenience, helping customers discover new foods while minimizing waste and saving money.

About the Role

Hungryroot is seeking a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join our Engineering Team. This role is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of the consumer-facing web interface, including both logged-in and logged-out experiences. The Senior Frontend Software Engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to translate functional requirements into technical specifications and work with the team to bring these visions to life.

The Frontend team at Hungryroot practices continuous deployment after pull request approval. Candidates should be proficient in manual testing across happy paths and edge cases, and comfortable writing unit tests using Vitest or similar libraries.

Responsibilities

• Complete projects from start to finish, ensuring detail-oriented execution from Figma designs.
• Design and implement responsive and maintainable web components using functional React with CSS modules.
• Collaborate with team members on code areas while operating mostly independently.
• Communicate project updates and blockers, and proactively ask questions to ensure project momentum.
• Work alongside Product Managers, Designers, Data Analysts, QA, Backend, Frontend, and Mobile Engineers.
• Peer review pull requests for accuracy, bugs, and code quality.
• Translate business requirements into precise, clear, and straightforward technical specifications and/or documentation.
• Write bug reports and supplemental user stories in JIRA.
• Contribute to enhancing code quality and reducing technical debt.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working with React and TypeScript.
• Proficiency with automation testing (Vitest, Playwright).
• Proficiency with evolving CSS standards.
• Experience with production-level frontend monitoring, error observability, and performance tuning (e.g., Sentry, Datadog).
• Experience implementing web security best practices.
• Strong communication skills.
• Self-driven and capable of thriving in a remote-first role.

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with React-Query, React-Aria, React-Router, Astro, Storybook, animation libraries (framer-motion, spring, etc.), Zod, or similar validation libraries.