Backend Software Engineer, Hungryroot
Personalized grocery & recipe delivery service
Job no longer available
Personalized grocery & recipe delivery service
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ yrs of commercial software development experience
- 2+ yrs of experience using Python as the primary day-to-day env
- 2+ yrs of designing, implementing, extending, maintaining and documenting RESTful APIs
- 2+ yrs of experience working with a web framework such as Django (preferred), Flask, Rails
- 1+ yrs of relational SQL experience
- Motivated and resourceful. Able to take ownership (with guidance) and see projects through from start to finish
- Collaborate well with teammates and be positive and constructive in communication
- Be proactive. Think ahead to avoid potential issues instead of being reactive
- Be transparent and candid
What the job involves
- This software engineer will be responsible for implementation, testing and maintenance of important features and integrations on the backend team.
- These include REST API endpoints, database schema changes, translating business logic, performance tuning, security hardening and other critical features.
- They can reach out to more senior engineers while performing additional research as necessary, to arrive at the best solution for each task.
- They can leverage other senior engineers to execute projects, proactively raise issues and resourcefully unblock themselves. They can constructively debate issues to learn and grow from others with more experience
- Contribute to critical overarching aspects of engineering infrastructure. Ownership of components of the service (e.g. module, set of related functions or business logic)
- Contribute to important technical discussions and help the team arrive at the best possible solution given any constraints we may face. Work with the other engineers and willing to offer assistance in helping solve problems
- Work closely with engineering leads on planning and execution of large, complex projects
- Contribute directly to important feature development and maintenance
- Ensure they maintain the bar on code quality and enforce engineering discipline through code review feedback, testing, technical presentations and opportunistic refactoring
Our take
Hungryroot is a grocery and meal kit service looking to revolutionize the end-to-end grocery experience. Its platform uses proprietary AI tech to personalize and predict grocery orders, whilst helping customers meet personal goals like trying new foods or losing weight.
The grocery market has historically been resistant to digitization, but as it begins to get on board with eCommerce there’s real space for innovation. An efficient and predictive grocery solution like Hungryroot is certainly unique, and possibly highly attractive in a market where speedy and personalized service remain customer priorities.
Especially promising is Hungryroot’s strong customer retention figures, which puts it in good stead. It has rapidly expanded despite challenges such as labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, and inflation. By placing a continued focus on customer experience, it has the chance to continue growing in the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2021
$40m
SERIES C
Mar 2018
$22m
SERIES B
Total funding: $79.1m
Company 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
- Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Spring Health, LiveHealth, Rightway care concierge, and more
- 401k with match
- A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben McKean
(Founder & CEO)Co-founded and was CEO at Savored, which was acquired by Groupon. Became VP and General Manager of Groupon for nearly three years, before founding Hungryroot in 2015. Founded Every in 2023.
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