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title: 'Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Foodsmart'
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# Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Foodsmart

- **Company:** Foodsmart
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$225k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/foodsmart/f05b60e7-e9c4-40b6-be7c-cfb28b27e033

## Job description

About us: Foodsmart is the leading telenutrition and foodcare solution, backed by a robust network of Registered Dietitians. Our platform is designed to foster healthier food choices, drive lasting behavior change, and deliver long-term health outcomes. Through our highly personalized, digital platform, we guide our 2.2 million members—including those in employer-sponsored health plans, regional and national Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, and commercial insurers—on a tailored journey to eating well while saving time and money. Foodsmart seamlessly integrates dietary assessments and nutrition counseling with online food ordering and cost-effective meal planning for the entire family. We partner with national and regional retailers across the U.S., many of whom accept SNAP/EBT, making healthier food more accessible. In 2024, Foodsmart secured a $200 million investment from TPG's Rise Fund to help expand our reach, particularly to low-income workers disproportionately affected by diet-related diseases. Our core values: 👥 Customer First — You start with the member and work backwards. 🚀 Make It Happen — You act with urgency, use data, and hold high standards. 🤝 One Team — You collaborate with respect and commit as a group.

About the role: Foodsmart's Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) team builds the telenutrition and foodcare platform used by members, providers, and partners. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow an engineering organization of approximately 16 engineers, setting technical direction and management practices that keep the team shipping reliable, high-quality software. You'll partner closely with product and design to translate roadmap priorities into well-architected systems, champion the adoption of AI throughout our engineering practices, and raise the bar on our full-stack web platform.

You will

- Lead AI-native development: Bring strong, hands-on AI experience to guide teams building AI-native software products architected around AI from the ground up spanning agentic workflows, LLM-powered services, and AI-assisted engineering practices, not just AI-adjacent features.
- Own four AI pods end to end: Directly manage four AI-focused pods, each accountable for delivering specific features and outcomes. You own execution, delivery, quality, and velocity across all four.
- Manage cross-pod dependencies and risk: Identify where pods' roadmaps intersect, sequence work to avoid bottlenecks, and proactively surface and mitigate risks before they threaten delivery.
- Shape architecture: Participate in and help drive architecture reviews across our React.js/TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, and Redshift stack, ensuring decisions hold up for scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability, including in a HIPAA/SOC 2-aware environment.
- Stay outcome-focused: Keep teams anchored to member and business impact rather than pure output, helping them prioritize the work that moves the needle.
- Champion AI adoption: Drive the practical use of AI across engineering from AI-assisted development tooling to AI-powered product features, keeping the org current with emerging tools and practices.
- Drive engineering excellence: Raise the bar on code quality, testing, observability, incident response, and CI/CD practices across the pods.
- Mentor and develop talent: Coach engineers and tech leads at all levels, building the next generation of technical leadership inside the org.
- Communicate and collaborate: Act as a clear, consistent communicator and trusted partner across engineering, product, design, and leadership, translating technical realities for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.

You are

- A people-first, hands-on leader who invests in coaching engineers at every level and has led organizations of a similar size (10+ engineers).
- A systems thinker who brings clarity to ambiguity, balances speed against risk, and earns trust across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Calm under pressure, with crisp written, verbal, and executive communication, and comfortable making and documenting decisions.
- Genuinely curious about AI, with real interest in its application to both engineering workflows and product development , not just familiarity with the term.
- Highly adaptable, quick to pivot as priorities shift, consistently responsive, and detail-oriented without losing sight of the bigger picture.
- An outcome-driven operator who ties engineering decisions back to measurable business and member impact.

You have

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams, with a track record leading 10+ engineers (startup or high-growth environment preferred).
- Strong, hands-on AI-native development experience building products with agentic systems, LLM integrations, or AI-first architectures and a track record applying AI to both engineering workflows and product features.
- A proven track record managing multiple engineering teams simultaneously, with clear accountability for delivery, quality, and velocity.
- Experience managing cross-team dependencies and risk in a fast-moving, multi-pod environment.
- Experience running engineering delivery with Agile/Lean practices (Scrum/Kanban) using tools like Jira and Confluence.
- A track record of setting technical direction and making sound architecture decisions for scalable, full-stack web applications.
- Deep working knowledge of our core stack: React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS, SQS,
- DynamoDB), PostgreSQL, and Redshift, along with Docker/Kubernetes for containerized, orchestrated deployments, and familiarity with GraphQL and RESTful API design.
- A strong outcome/value-oriented mindset, with a track record of tying engineering work to business impact.
- Excellent mentorship and coaching skills, with genuine investment in developing people.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in regulated environments (healthcare/digital health preferred), with HIPAA/SOC 2 awareness and audit-friendly change management, is a plus.

Tools we use:

Jira, Confluence, Cursor, Figma, Google Workspace, Loom, AWS, PostgreSQL, Redshift, modern CI/CD and observability tooling.

## OUR BENEFITS & PERKS

🏠 Remote-First Culture — Work from anywhere with a flexible schedule. 🏝️ Unlimited PTO — We prioritize rest and recharging. 🏥 Comprehensive Healthcare — Robust medical, dental, and vision coverage. 💰 Financial Wellness — 401k & performance bonuses 🥗 Personalized Nutrition — Access to our network of Registered Dietitians. Foodsmart is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected class.

## About Foodsmart

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Foodsmart is a leading telenutrition and foodcare platform that connects members with registered dietitians and provides personalized food benefits to improve health outcomes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, total funding $314.8M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Wellness and Fitness Services (telehealth nutrition)
- **Target customers**: B2B2C – employer-sponsored health plans, Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, commercial insurers, and individual consumers
- **Mission statement**: “Alleviate the world of chronic conditions through one simple thing that is fundamental to all of us: food.”

## Products & Services
- **Foodsmart Platform**: A digital telenutrition and foodcare solution that combines evidence-based medical nutrition therapy, sustainable behavior change tools, and personalized food benefits management. Members work one-on-one with a registered dietitian and can access food incentives and benefits.
- **Registered Dietitian Network**: The largest national network of licensed registered dietitians, available for virtual consultations.
- **Food Benefits Management**: Helps members navigate and use food-related benefits (e.g., produce prescriptions, grocery allowances) to make healthy eating more affordable.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$314.8M** (11 funding rounds); annual revenue of **$5.6M** (latest fiscal year)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Zaffre Investments, Seventure Partners, Espresso Capital (led debt financing)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Over **3 million members** served
  - Headcount of **431 employees** (+12.2% YoY)
  - Raised **$10M Series C** in January 2024
  - Expanding into new health plan partnerships and Medicare/Medicaid channels
  - Strong LinkedIn growth: +244% followers year-over-year

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest national network of registered dietitians** – scale creates a defensible moat in telenutrition
- **Integrated food benefits engine** – goes beyond coaching to actually help members afford healthy food (e.g., produce prescriptions, grocery discounts)
- **Personalized, evidence-based approach** – care plans tailored to individual health needs, supported by ongoing dietitian relationships
- **Proven outcomes** – drives lasting behavior change and reduces chronic condition risks, appealing to payers and employers

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening partnerships with health plans (Medicaid, Medicare, commercial) and large employers
- Scaling the network of registered dietitians and expanding into new geographic markets
- Enhancing the platform’s clinical quality and data analytics to demonstrate ROI for clients
- Expanding food access and benefits offerings (e.g., “Food Access & Benefits” product line)
- B2B growth – hiring a VP of Partnerships and a Senior Product Manager for B2B Growth

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture** – most roles are fully remote (US-based)
- **Mission-driven** – directly tackling chronic disease through nutrition, offering purpose-driven work
- **Perks & benefits** (per Built In):
  - Company equity and performance bonuses
  - Generous parental leave
  - Health, dental, and vision insurance
  - 401(k) with disability and life insurance
  - Pet-friendly office (for those who visit HQ)
  - Free snacks and drinks at HQ
  - Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid volunteer time
- **Growth opportunities** – company is scaling (12% headcount growth) with roles in engineering, product, data science, clinical, and commercial functions
- **Team culture** – though employee rating is 3.0/5.0 (115 reviews), strengths cited include work-life balance (3.5) and mission alignment

## Sources
1. [foodsmart.com – About Us](https://foodsmart.com/about-us)
2. [foodsmart.com – Careers](https://foodsmart.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com – Foodsmart Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/hellofoodsmart)
4. [builtin.com – Foodsmart Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/foodsmart)
5. [jobs.lever.co – Foodsmart Open Positions](https://jobs.lever.co/foodsmart)

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