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title: 'Senior Backend Software Engineer at Hungryroot'
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# Senior Backend Software Engineer at Hungryroot

- **Company:** Hungryroot
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hungryroot/jobs/6186776004

## Job description

## About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—getting to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and recommending and delivering healthy groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements for you and your family.

It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. We believe food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and that everyone is unique in how they eat and live. That’s why we’re building a future in which healthy living is both easy and enjoyable.

Hungryroot is a distributed team of top talent across 28+ U.S. states. While we have a headquarters in New York City, our remote-first culture emphasizes collaboration, team-building, and flexibility. Expect regular virtual team events, strong ownership and accountability, and an annual company retreat.

## About the Role

Hungryroot is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our growing Engineering team.

This senior software engineer will drive the technical design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and quality 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 rely on their own experience while performing additional research as necessary, to arrive at the best solution for each task.

They can independently execute projects, proactively raise issues and resourcefully unblock themselves. Some form of mentoring and guiding less experienced or new developers on the team is required. They can constructively debate any issue, persuade others with hard evidence while staying objective and open to changing their mind. They will be the backbone of our entire API engineering team.

## Responsibilities

- Own critical overarching aspects of engineering infrastructure. This does not necessarily mean owning any particular service, but rather, owning the system by which all the services are strung together, or owning the process by which services are designed, implemented and maintained.
- 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, maintenance, and quality.
- 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

## Qualifications

- 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience
- 3+ yrs of experience using Python and the wider ecosystem as the primary day-to-day env
- 3+ yrs of designing and extending RESTful APIs
- 3+ yrs of experience working with a web framework such as Django (preferred), Flask, Rails.
- 2+ yrs of relational SQL experience
- 2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issue

## Nice To Have

- Full-stack engineering experience is a big plus
- Proficient in leveraging modern AI-powered developer tooling
- Experience with AWS and its various core services
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC Tools)
- Proficiency working with Git
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field

## Perks & 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

Expected Pay Range: $168,000 - $210,000

## #LI-REMOTE

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

## About Hungryroot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hungryroot uses AI to personalize grocery, meal kit, and supplement deliveries, making healthy eating effortless.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded; $75.4M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed in search results

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food & Beverage Services / Food Delivery
- **Target customers**: B2C – health-conscious consumers, individuals with dietary preferences (gluten-free, high-protein, vegetarian, etc.), and busy households looking to save time on meal planning and grocery shopping.
- **Mission statement**: “To build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist” – acting as a personal assistant for healthy living by tailoring groceries, recipes, and supplements to each customer’s goals, lifestyle, and budget. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Personalized Grocery & Meal Kit Delivery**: Customers complete a profile covering diet, health goals, and budget; Hungryroot curates a weekly box of groceries, easy recipes, and free gifts. Combines the convenience of a meal kit with the variety of a grocery store. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/)
- **Supplements**: Essential supplements (e.g., anti-inflammatory, gut-friendly) offered alongside food items.
- **AI-Powered Recommendation Engine**: The core technology that personalizes every delivery based on individual preferences, aiming to save customers an average of 3 hours per week and over $200 compared to takeout. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$161.5M** (as of latest data on LinkedIn) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hungryroot)
- **Total Funding**: **$75.4M** across 5 rounds, including seed (2015), Series A (2016, 2017), Series B (2018 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners), and a venture round in 2022. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hungryroot)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: **Lightspeed Venture Partners** (led multiple rounds) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hungryroot)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew **53% YoY** to 176 employees (as of mid-2026). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hungryroot)
  - 14M+ deliveries completed; 4.8 average TrustPilot rating; 90% of surveyed customers reported improved health. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/)
  - Remote-first company with talent across 28+ states. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/careers/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑First Personalization**: The entire shopping experience is algorithm‑driven, adapting to each customer’s dietary needs, budget, and goals – a moat that competitors like HelloFresh or Blue Apron have been slower to match at scale.
- **Hybrid Model**: Combines the flexibility of grocery delivery (choose individual items) with the simplicity of meal kits (recipes included), reducing food waste and increasing customer satisfaction.
- **Customer‑Obsessed Metrics**: Claims an average of 3 hours saved per week and $200 saved vs. takeout, backed by customer surveys. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/)
- **Strong Brand Trust**: 4.8 stars on TrustPilot and high customer retention signals (free gift every delivery, easy pause/cancel). [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Personalization**: Continued investment in AI and data science (see job postings for Senior Data Scientist, Senior Software Engineer, Platform). [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hungryroot/jobs/5978366004)
- **Expand Product Categories**: Adding supplements and targeting specific health needs (anti‑inflammatory, gut‑friendly, high protein) to broaden the customer base.
- **Operational Efficiency**: Hiring for fulfillment and operations roles (e.g., Operations Manager in Hiram, Georgia) to support national growth while maintaining a remote‑first engineering culture. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hungryroot/jobs/5978366004)
- **International Talent**: Presence in Colombia, Poland, and India suggests a global hiring strategy for tech and operations. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hungryroot)

## Why Work Here
- **Remote‑First Culture**: Employees work from home across 28+ states; intentional in‑person gatherings (“Camp”) foster connection. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/careers/)
- **People‑First Values**: Free groceries delivered to your door, real growth opportunities, and a transparent, ownership‑driven environment. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/careers/)
- **Impact‑Driven Work**: Engineers see direct impact – e.g., funnel experiments that drove a 20% YoY lift in acquisition. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/careers/)
- **Strong Employer Rating**: 4.2/5 on LinkedIn (68 reviews), with high marks for Culture (4.2) and Career Development (4.1). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hungryroot)
- **Open Roles (as of mid‑2026)**: Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Scientist, Senior Product Manager, Senior Backend Engineer (Search), and more. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hungryroot/jobs/5978366004)

## Sources
1. [hungryroot.com](https://www.hungryroot.com/) – Homepage product and customer stats
2. [hungryroot.com/careers](https://www.hungryroot.com/careers/) – Culture and employee testimonials
3. [linkedin.com/company/hungryroot](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hungryroot) – Company details, funding, headcount, revenue, reviews
4. [greenhouse.io/hungryroot](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hungryroot/jobs/5978366004) – Current job openings
5. [builtin.com/company/hungryroot](https://builtin.com/company/hungryroot) – Additional culture and office info

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