Senior Software Engineer, Hungryroot

• 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience
• 3+ yrs of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day environment
• 2+ yrs of experience working with a web framework such as Django (Preferred), Flask, FastAPI
• 3+ yrs of relational SQL experience, strong understanding of MySQL performance tuning and comfortable writing raw SQL queries
• 2+ yrs of experience using Docker, experience in improving docker build efficiency
• 2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issues using Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar technologies for observability
• 2+ years of professional work experience within an AWS environment

Desirable

• The Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team will design performant foundational systems and developer integration tooling supporting our other backend software engineering teams: API, internal services, and data science
• The Platform team's solutions better enable these teams to rapidly develop mission-critical solutions and applications for our customers and for our operations & supply chain teams, with greater consistency, performance, security, operability, and maintainability
• They will work closely with the DevOps team to enable reliable infrastructure, effective automation, and self-service
• They rely on their own experience while performing additional research as necessary, to arrive at the best solution for each task
• They have proven records being the tech lead on complex, cross-team projects, proactively raising issues, and resourcefully unblocking themselves to ensure projects are delivered with high quality and within the expected timeline
• They can constructively debate any issue, persuade others with hard evidence while staying objective and open to changing their mind
• In short, they will support the foundation of our entire engineering team’s continued success
• Own mission-critical and high scale systems and integrations, particularly those that support operations, data science, and other dev teams
• Design, document, and support tooling and integrations that accelerate other backend engineering teams’ velocity through outstanding developer experience and minimized cognitive load
• Drive important technical discussions and help the team arrive at the best possible solution given any constraints we may face. Be a sounding board to other engineers and willing to offer assistance in helping solve very difficult problems
• Work closely with engineering leads on planning and execution of large, complex projects
• Contribute directly to important feature development and maintenance
• Help raise the bar on code quality and enforce engineering discipline through code review feedback, testing, automation, technical presentations and opportunistic refactoring
• Participate in the interview process of other senior, mid, or junior engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions