Senior Software Engineer, Hungryroot

• We are looking for someone who can independently execute projects, proactively raise issues and resourcefully unblock themselves
• We are also looking for someone who is excited about mentoring and guiding less experienced or new developers on the team and for a team player who can constructively debate any issue, persuade others with hard evidence while staying objective and open to changing their mind
• 5+ years of commercial software development experience
• 3+ years of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day environment
• 2+ years of experience working with a web framework such as Django (Required), Flask, Rails
• 3+ years of relational SQL experience
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting production issues
• Excited to collaborate with great teammates and be positive and constructive in communication
• Excellent grasp of computer science concepts like algorithms, data structures, complexity, and common design patterns
• Proficient in debugging and troubleshooting, especially when it comes to backend systems or background processes

Desirable

• At Hungryroot, our mission is to serve as our customers’ personal assistant for healthy living, helping them feel better on a daily basis and have more time to do what they love
• This Senior Software Engineer will have an opportunity to drive technical design, implementation, integrations, testing and maintenance of important features on the Platform Team
• This individual will work on areas including REST API endpoints, database schema changes, translating business logic, performance tuning, security hardening and other critical features
• This individual will help support our growing Platform team
• Own mission-critical and high scale systems and integrations, particularly those that support operations and data science
• 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 challenging 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, technical presentations and opportunistic refactoring
• Participate in the interview process of other senior, mid, or junior engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions