Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We are your personal assistant for healthy living. We get to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and we recommend and deliver 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. Founded on the belief that food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and we’re all unique in how we eat and live, Hungryroot is building a future in which healthy living is easy and enjoyable.

We are a distributed team built on top talent from over 28 states across the U.S. While we have a headquarters in New York City, we support employees working from wherever they are based. We believe in fostering team connection and collaboration across all of our employees' locations. Expect to attend regular team building events and an annual company retreat. Expect to be treated like an owner who cares about our common goal, not someone who has to clock in and out of work.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to be a part of our growing Smartcart team. You’ll be the key engineer responsible for owning and evolving the backend service that integrates our Machine Learning and Operations Research system for grocery personalization with the backend powering our web and mobile customer experiences.

You’ll work closely with data scientists, operations researchers, and product engineers to build, deploy, and scale backend services and APIs that serve real-time personalized recommendations and model-driven features. This role requires strong backend fundamentals and experience with production infrastructure, particularly in FastAPI and AWS.

If you're excited about applying machine learning in meaningful, user-facing ways and making an impact on how people grocery shop and eat for the better, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain a production FastAPI service that acts as the core interface between our Machine Learning/Operations Research engines and the broader platform.
• Ensure system reliability and performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally on product feature development.
• Contribute to code quality and maintain best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and ops to translate business needs into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with production experience in FastAPI.
• Experience with building, deploying, and maintaining services in production environments.
• Solid understanding of AWS services (ECS, EC2, ElastiCache, S3, etc.).
• Some knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Comfortable pair programming and working independently and collaboratively in remote team environments.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to translate business problems into practical solutions.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with CI/CD (Github Actions preferred), Docker, nginx.
• Familiarity with Databricks or other ML platforms.
• Experience with services related to productionalized ML models or ML-powered user experiences.
• Some experience with Terraform.
• On-call experience supporting production systems.

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 USD

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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 culture.