Senior Software Engineer

Foodsmart is the leading Foodcare platform in the U.S., built to deliver nutrition-driven healthcare at scale. Powered by a national network of Registered Dietitians, Foodsmart combines personalized clinical nutrition care, behavior change tools, and food benefits to improve member health outcomes while lowering healthcare costs.

Our platform is designed to foster healthier food choices, drive lasting behavior change, and deliver sustainable health outcomes. Through our highly personalized, digital platform, we guide more than 3 million members—including those in employer-sponsored health plans, regional and national Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicare Advantage plans, and commercial insurers—on a tailored journey to eating well while saving time and money.

Foodsmart seamlessly integrates dietary assessments and nutrition counseling with online food ordering and cost-effective meal planning for the entire family, optimizing ingredients both at home and on the go. We partner with national and regional retailers across the U.S., many of whom accept SNAP/EBT, making healthier food more accessible. Additionally, we assist members with SNAP enrollment and management, providing tangible access to nutritious food. In 2024, Foodsmart secured a $200 million investment from TPG’s Rise Fund, which supports entrepreneurs dedicated to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This investment helps us expand our reach, particularly to low-income workers who are disproportionately affected by diet-related diseases. 

At Foodsmart, our mission is to make nutritious food accessible and affordable for everyone, regardless of economic status. We are committed to a set of core values that shape our culture and work environment:

👥 Customer First - You start with the member and work backwards.
🚀 Make It Happen - You act with urgency, use data, and hold high standards.
🤝 One Team - You collaborate with respect and commit as a group.

Whether you're a dietitian, a commercial leader, or a technologist, working at Foodsmart means being part of a team that is passionate, supportive, and driven by a shared purpose. Join us in transforming the way people access and enjoy healthy food.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer at our company, you will play a crucial role in developing both the user-facing frontend and the backend systems powering the Foodsmart platform. You’ll be responsible for designing and maintaining scalable, high-performance web applications and backend services. You will work closely with both frontend and backend teams to create efficient APIs, manage data, and ensure a seamless user experience. Your contributions will directly impact the lives of our users, helping to bridge the gap between personalized nutrition seekers and registered dietitians providing expert guidance. You’ll have a passion for coding and a deep understanding of web technologies, enabling you to contribute to every layer of the product stack.

You will

• Design and implement robust, scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to implement interactive, accessible, and responsive frontend interfaces using modern web technologies.
• Define and maintain development practices including code reviews, unit testing, and continuous integration to improve code quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Debug and fix issues across both frontend and backend systems.
• Proactively monitor and optimize system performance, scalability, and security across both layers.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and propose ways to apply them in current and future development.

You are

• Solid in software engineering principles, with a strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and system design.
• Well-versed in both frontend and backend development tools, frameworks, and languages.
• Proficient with API design and integration, and able to implement robust solutions for seamless communication between frontend and backend.
• Experienced with database management, whether SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) or NoSQL (DynamoDB), and cloud data platforms.
• Strong in modern frontend engineering practices, accessibility, responsive design, and browser performance optimization.
• Strong in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• A collaborative team player who can communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You have

• 6+ years of full-stack development experience, with deep, hands-on expertise in React.js, and TypeScript for building production frontend applications, plus strong backend experience in Node.js for building services and APIs.
• Strong RESTful API design and integration skills — you can design clean, versioned API contracts, handle authentication/authorization, and consume third-party APIs reliably from both frontend and backend code.
• Deep database knowledge across both relational and non-relational systems: comfortable designing schemas, writing performant queries, and managing migrations in MySQL/PostgreSQL, as well as modeling and querying data in DynamoDB.
• Working familiarity with core AWS services, including compute (EC2, Lambda), messaging (SQS, SNS), storage (S3), and managed databases (RDS) - enough to deploy, configure, and troubleshoot services in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration, including building and running services in Docker and deploying/managing them in a Kubernetes (or similar) environment, along with general comfort operating in cloud infrastructure.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.