Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Hungryroot

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year

Senior

AWSDjangoDockerFlaskMySQLPythonSQL

About the role

Own mission-critical and high scale systems and integrations, particularly those that support operations, data science, and other dev teams
Design, document, and support tooling and integrations that accelerate other backend engineering teams’ velocity through outstanding developer experience and minimized cognitive load
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 and maintenance
Help raise the bar on code quality and enforce engineering discipline through code review feedback, testing, automation, 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 environment
2+ yrs of experience working with a web framework such as Django (Preferred), Flask, FastAPI.
3+ yrs of relational SQL experience, strong understanding of MySQL performance tuning and comfortable writing raw SQL queries
2+ yrs of experience using Docker, experience in improving docker build efficiency
2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issues using Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar technologies for observability
2+ years of professional work experience within an AWS environment
Nice to haves: Full-stack engineering experience; Experience with AWS core services; Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC Tools); Experience working with data science teams; Experience writing clear, complete technical documentation; A bachelor's degree in computer science or related field