Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer

at Nourish

• Job title: Senior Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, JavaScript, Node.js, Postgres, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Senior Backend Engineer at Nourish developing core platform features for a health-focused AI-native startup. Collaborating cross-functionally to drive critical engineering projects and product development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship cutting-edge products and features at lightning speed without compromising on quality.
• Drive continuous improvements in our engineering processes, tools, and systems to scale both our codebase and team productivity.
• Collaborate with colleagues across product, design, engineering, and analytics to solve challenging and impactful problems in a data-driven experimentation culture.
• Contribute to the estimations, planning and execution of projects, features, and integrations.
• Maintain and elevate our existing codebase by developing, releasing, and maintaining backend services and/or infrastructure.
• Write clean, fully-tested, high-performance code that sets the standard for excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years as a Backend focused Software Engineer, preferably building high-performance internal platforms to streamline internal business operations, developer experience, or devops.
• 3+ years utilizing our tech stack (Typescript, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, AWS) or confidence and excitement about cross-training and up-skilling!
• Do your own stunts and ship fast. You like to build and ship new things, can independently take a project from idea through implementation, and run toward hard problems.
• Think work should feel like play. You value a very collaborative, close-knit team and care about having fun and making an impact at work.
• Want to be deeply involved in product and design. You are not only passionate about engineering but also have a desire to build a product end-to-end, through the design, coding, testing, and deployment phases. We're an early-stage startup where product, design, and engineering are closely intertwined.
• Think from first principles. Ask why, challenge assumptions, and value the right answer over being right.
• Nice to Have’s
• Startup or Scale Up experience. You have that dog in you; you’re resilient and persevere through challenges.
• Interviewing Experience. We’re quickly growing our Engineering function and expect our Engineers to help us do so!
• Energized by our mission. Our mission defines everything we do, we need engineers hungry to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Remote work options