Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Hungryroot, a company using AI to build a consumer-centric food and wellness company, as a Senior Software Engineer, Backend. You will be responsible for owning and evolving the backend service that integrates the Machine Learning and Operations Research system for grocery personalization with the backend powering web and mobile customer experiences. Collaborate with data scientists, operations researchers, and product engineers to build, deploy, and scale backend services and APIs. This role requires strong backend fundamentals and experience with production infrastructure, particularly in FastAPI and AWS. If you are passionate about applying machine learning in user-facing ways and making an impact on how people grocery shop, we encourage you to apply. Hungryroot offers a remote-first work environment, equity, unlimited vacation, parental leave, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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