Back-End Software Engineer, ZOE
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Personalised nutrition company
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Personalised nutrition company
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Offers Equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve the health of millions.
Role
Who you are
- Are an engineer with experience as a backend engineer and some experience working with Data Scientists on projects
- Good knowledge of one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, or Kotlin)
- Write clean maintainable code across microservices and data pipelines
- Are a great communicator that can be highly collaborative with other engineers
- Have experience working in a fast-paced environment. You lead by example, contribute to the roadmap, get your hands dirty and get things done
What the job involves
- The team is composed of mobile, full-stack and backend engineers, a data scientist, a product manager and a product designer
- As a backend engineer in the team, you will be responsible for building the services responsive for computing metrics and advices from complex logged meal data, computing trends over these metrics, capturing customers targets and how they are doing against them
- Solving complex backend problems while working closely with product managers and UX designers to provide the best in class customer experience
- Designing systems ranging from data collection, content delivery, insights computation, recommendation, or modelling complex domains like the relationship between foods
- Writing code across our microservices and data pipelines
- Shipping in production. Preferably daily or more!
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to your peers
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy new features
- Mentoring and supporting engineers in other teams
- Learning, learning, learning! There is always a new challenge to tackle
Application process
- Talent Acquisition Screening: Selected candidates will be contacted for an initial phone interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner. This conversation will help us assess your qualifications, experience, and your fit for our team. Duration 45min
- Hiring Manager Screening: Selected candidates will be moved forward in the process and meet an Engineering Manager. This conversation will focus on diving deeper in regards to your qualifications, experience, and your fit for ZOE. Duration 30min
- Technical Interviews: You will be asked to complete two technical interviews, which evaluate your coding and system design experience. Duration 60min/each
- Behavioural Interviews: You will be asked to complete two behavioural interviews, which evaluate your present and past experience from a behavioural standpoint. Duration 45min/each
- Expected Timeline: The entire hiring process typically takes around 3-4 weeks from the Talent Acquisition Interview to the job offer. We understand the importance of your time and aim to provide timely feedback and updates at each stage
Salary benchmarks
Our take
ZOE is a science-first nutrition company shaking up everything we thought we knew about healthy eating. Behind the bold mission is a simple truth: the food we eat is often making us sick, and one-size-fits -all advice just isn't cutting it anymore. So, ZOE is flipping the script with the world's largest nutrition study and real, personalised insights based on users' bodies.
Its approach is all about turning cutting-edge science into everyday habits. Whether it's through its ZOE Membership (which already has over 100,000 users), the plant-packed Daily30+ supplement, or expert-packed podcasts, its helping people discover what truly works for their bodies. And it's not just theory, randomised trials show that the right food can make a noticeable difference in just weeks.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2025
$6.9m
LATE VC
Jul 2024
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $106.4m
Company benefits
- Free ZOE Kit (+1 for a family member or friend)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Paid time off available from day one
- 1x Life Event Day per year
- 2x Reset Days per year
- Social Budget
- WFH Budget (for items purchased after joining)
- Spill Mental Health Support
- Wellness Budget
- Growth & Development Budget
- Enhanced Parental Leave & Benefits
- ...and much more!
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Jonathan Wolf
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in Physics. Previously worked at Criteo as Chief Buying Officer/Chief Product Officer, at Yahoo! as Senior Director and at Atlas Venture as a Principal.
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