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Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Django) - AI & API Infrastructure
Remote
AI Summary
Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of critical backend systems and REST APIs at Hungryroot, a remote-first AI-driven food and wellness company. Drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and optimize infrastructure for scalability, security, and performance. Requires 5+ years of commercial software development with deep Python/Django expertise.
Key Highlights
Own critical aspects of engineering infrastructure, system design, and API development for a remote-first AI-driven food/wellness platform.
Mentor engineers, participate in hiring decisions, and drive technical discussions to solve complex problems.
Work in a fully remote, distributed team with a focus on ownership, transparency, and growth opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
Own critical overarching aspects of engineering infrastructure, including system design and API integration processes.
Drive technical discussions and help the team arrive at optimal solutions for complex projects and constraints.
Contribute to feature development, maintenance, and quality assurance while raising the bar on code quality through reviews, testing, and refactoring.
Mentor and guide less experienced engineers, and participate in hiring decisions for senior, mid, and junior roles.
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Remote-first work with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S.
Equity, unlimited vacation policy, universal paid parental leave
Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance, 401k with company match
Nice to Have
Full-stack engineering experience
Experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
Proficiency in modern AI-powered developer tooling
Job Description
Remote - US Full Time Senior
US$168K - US$210K Yearly
Published on September 12, 2026
Hungryroot
hungryroot.com
At Hungryroot, we're using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company ever.
We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—delivering groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements tailored to your goals, lifestyle, and budget.
It's the easiest way to eat better, save time, and live healthier.
We're a remote-first team with a people-first culture.
With top talent across 28+ states, we value ownership, transparency, and connection—wherever you work. We offer free groceries, real growth opportunities, and intentional in-person get togethers. At Hungryroot, your work—and you—truly matter. Join us in building a future where healthy living is easy and enjoyable.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
$168,000 - $210,000
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.
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Hungryroot
hungryroot.com
At Hungryroot, we're using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company ever.
We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—delivering groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements tailored to your goals, lifestyle, and budget.
It's the easiest way to eat better, save time, and live healthier.
We're a remote-first team with a people-first culture.
With top talent across 28+ states, we value ownership, transparency, and connection—wherever you work. We offer free groceries, real growth opportunities, and intentional in-person get togethers. At Hungryroot, your work—and you—truly matter. Join us in building a future where healthy living is easy and enjoyable.
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Skill Stack
- REST API
- Flask
- Git
- Python
- AI
- Django
- AWS
$168,000 - $210,000 Yearly
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Remote - US Full Time Senior
US$168K - US$210K Yearly
Published on September 12, 2026
Hungryroot
hungryroot.com
At Hungryroot, we're using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company ever.
We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—delivering groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements tailored to your goals, lifestyle, and budget.
It's the easiest way to eat better, save time, and live healthier.
We're a remote-first team with a people-first culture.
With top talent across 28+ states, we value ownership, transparency, and connection—wherever you work. We offer free groceries, real growth opportunities, and intentional in-person get togethers. At Hungryroot, your work—and you—truly matter. Join us in building a future where healthy living is easy and enjoyable.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
$168,000 - $210,000
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.
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At Hungryroot, we're using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company ever.
We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—delivering groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements tailored to your goals, lifestyle, and budget.
It's the easiest way to eat better, save time, and live healthier.
We're a remote-first team with a people-first culture.
With top talent across 28+ states, we value ownership, transparency, and connection—wherever you work. We offer free groceries, real growth opportunities, and intentional in-person get togethers. At Hungryroot, your work—and you—truly matter. Join us in building a future where healthy living is easy and enjoyable.
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
$168,000 - $210,000
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.
At Hungryroot, we're using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company ever.
We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—delivering groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements tailored to your goals, lifestyle, and budget.
It's the easiest way to eat better, save time, and live healthier.
We're a remote-first team with a people-first culture.
With top talent across 28+ states, we value ownership, transparency, and connection—wherever you work. We offer free groceries, real growth opportunities, and intentional in-person get togethers. At Hungryroot, your work—and you—truly matter. Join us in building a future where healthy living is easy and enjoyable.
Skill Stack
- REST API
- Flask
- Git
- Python
- AI
- Django
- AWS
$168,000 - $210,000 Yearly
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