Rethinkfood
Lead Full-Stack Engineer
New York, New York
Sponsorship not specified$225k-$265kDetected 30 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsNode.jsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentGitSQLPostgreSQLBigQueryCloud PlatformsData VisualizationLLMsProduct StrategyHubSpotLogisticsLeadershipCommunicationPlain LanguageFood Safety
About the role
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Responsibilities
- Own products end-to-end: discovery, prioritization, user experience, architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Spend time with kitchen staff, program teams, finance staff, restaurants, and community partners to understand how work actually happens.
- Build polished interfaces, APIs, backend services, databases, integrations, and data pipelines.
- Establish secure authentication, role-based permissions, auditability, testing, documentation, observability, backups, and production support practices.
- Make disciplined build-versus-buy decisions and prevent unnecessary complexity.
- What did you build yourself, what tradeoff did you make, and what happened after launch?
Requirements
- At least seven years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent evidence of exceptional ability.
- Deep proficiency with technologies such as TypeScript, React or Next.js, Node.js and/or Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD.
- Experience designing data models and integrating fragmented systems through APIs, webhooks, batch pipelines, and event-driven workflows.
Skills
- Kitchen and Field Operations Tools
Compensation
- The annual salary range for this position is $225,000-$265,000.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Equal Opportunity Employer, drug-free workplace, and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.
Visa & Work Authorization
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