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Nourish · 1 day ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Nourish is a company on a mission to improve people’s health through nutrition. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping their core platform and driving the development of critical features in collaboration with various teams.

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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

Qualification

Backend Software EngineeringTypescriptNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSPrismaResilienceProduct InvolvementCollaborationProblem Solving

Required

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

Preferred

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

Company

Nourish

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​Nourish is a telehealth platform that connects individuals with registered dietitian nutritionists for personalized nutrition counseling.

H1B Sponsorship

Nourish has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)
2024 (2)
2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$113.12M
Key Investors
J.P. Morgan Growth Equity PartnersIndex VenturesThrive Capital
2025-04-23Series B· $70M
2024-03-27Series A· $35M
2023-02-01Seed· $8M

Leadership Team

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Stephanie Liu
Co-Founder & CTO
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