Senior Backend Engineer

About Us

Nourish is on a mission to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well. Nutrition-related chronic disease is the largest and most overlooked crisis in the world. Food can be medicine: working with a Registered Dietitian is one of the most effective interventions available, but <1% of eligible Americans use their covered benefits. Nourish is building an AI-native, patient-friendly healthcare system centered on nutrition that improves outcomes, lowers costs, and helps people live healthier, longer lives. We launched three years ago, are live in all 50 states, and already have thousands of dietitians and hundreds of thousands of patients on the platform. We are growing quickly, have partnered with national health insurance companies and provider groups, and have raised $115M from top-tier VCs including JP Morgan Growth Equity, Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Maverick Ventures, Box Group, Atomico, G Squared, and Pinegrove Venture Partners. Our angel investors include world-class healthcare founders from Oscar, Rightway Health, Headway, Spring Health, and Alto Pharmacy, as well as soccer star Alex Morgan and the founders from Olipop and Notion. Learn more about us here and read about our recent Series B here.

About the Role:

Nourish is looking for talented Senior Backend Engineers to join our fast-growing team! As a key, early member of Nourish’s engineering team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our core platform. Working side-by-side with engineering, product, design, and analytics, you’ll drive the development of critical features that will lay the foundation for years to come.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager of your Pod, you’ll take full ownership of major parts of the codebase, setting ambitious timelines and leading project deliverables. Whether you’re in the Ops or Platform Pod, your contributions will be essential in bringing our product roadmap to life and building scalable technology to transform interactions with patients, dietitians, and insurance companies.

This role is full-time and open to remote or onsite/hybrid out of Nourish’s NYC office in the heart of Union Square. Check out ‘Engineering at Nourish’ to learn more about our team and what we’ve already built!

Key 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.

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• 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.

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