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Senior Software Engineer, Android

Hungryroot is an AI-powered online grocery service that delivers personalized healthy groceries, simple recipes, and supplements to help customers save time, eat well, and reduce food waste.

Hungryroot

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 160k-180k USD

United States only

About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—getting to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and recommending and delivering healthy groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements for you and your family.

It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. We believe food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and that everyone is unique in how they eat and live. That’s why we’re building a future in which healthy living is both easy and enjoyable.

Hungryroot is a distributed team of top talent across 28+ U.S. states. While we have a headquarters in New York City, our remote-first culture emphasizes collaboration, team-building, and flexibility. Expect regular virtual team events, strong ownership and accountability, and an annual company retreat.

About the Role

Hungryroot is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Android to join our growing Mobile team. This engineer needs to specialize in Android development. As a Sr. Android developer, this person will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, reliable, and maintainable mobile applications for the Android platform. This individual must be an expert in the Android SDK, proficient in Kotlin, and experienced with Jetpack Compose to write clean, efficient, and modern Android applications. The role will also include troubleshooting and debugging of any issues that arise in the app.

This engineer will work closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to deliver new features and make improvements to the Hungryroot app.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, reliable, and maintainable mobile applications for the Android platform using Kotlin
  • Work closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to deliver new features and improvements to the app
  • Troubleshoot and debug any issues that arise in the app and provide ongoing maintenance and support
  • Lead and mentor other developers, and be involved in the development and review of technical designs and architecture
  • Participate in code reviews, technical meetings and project planning meetings
  • Continuously learn and stay up-to-date with the latest development technologies and best practices in the Android ecosystem

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 7+ years experience working on Android apps
  • 1+ year of Jetpack Compose
  • Experience with Kotlin, Clean Architecture, MVVM, Coroutines/Flow/StateFlow, Hilt/Dagger, REST APIs, OkHttp, unit testing, and Git/CI workflows.
  • Good grasp of computer science concepts, common design patterns, good engineering practices, and frequent real world pitfalls.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work with multiple cross-functional teams

Perks Benefits

  • Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
  • Equity
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • Universal paid parental leave
  • Monthly Hungryroot credit for delicious, healthy groceries
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
  • 401k with Company Match
  • A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup

Expected Pay Range:
$160,000 - $180,000

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

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Senior

Salary

Salary: 160k-180k USD

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About Hungryroot

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Hungryroot is an AI-powered online grocery service designed to make healthy eating easy, personal, and sustainable for its customers. Many people face the challenge of wanting to eat healthier but lack the time for extensive meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking. Hungryroot addresses this by getting to know each customer's unique preferences, lifestyle, budget, and health objectives. Through a detailed quiz covering tastes and daily routines, the platform gathers over 100 explicit data points per customer, enabling its AI to curate a personalized grocery plan. This plan includes recommended groceries, simple recipes, and even essential supplements, aiming to help customers feel their best. The service inverts the traditional shopping experience; instead of starting with an empty cart, customers begin with a full cart of healthy groceries and recipes that they can then edit. This approach significantly reduces the time and stress associated with meal preparation, helps users achieve their health goals, discover new foods, and save money by reducing food waste and reliance on takeout.

The company was founded in 2015 with the belief that food is the foundation of health and that convenience shouldn't mean compromising on quality or personal needs. Initially, Hungryroot operated as a packaged food company offering a small line of healthy products. However, responding to customer demand for a more comprehensive solution, it pivoted in 2019 to become an AI-driven online grocery delivery service. Today, Hungryroot offers over 600 groceries that meet a high-quality 'Root Standard' – free of artificial sweeteners, colors, preservatives, partially hydrogenated oils, and high-fructose corn syrup – and over 6,000 chef-crafted recipes. These recipes are designed to be nutritious, easy to follow, and typically take 10 minutes or less to prepare. Hungryroot supports over 25 dietary restrictions and preferences, more than many competitors in the industry, catering to needs such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and high-protein diets. By leveraging AI, Hungryroot not only personalizes the customer experience but also optimizes its operations to minimize food waste, contributing to a more sustainable and economical way of grocery shopping.

Employee benefits

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401(K)

Hungryroot offers a 401(K) plan.

Remote work program

Hungryroot supports remote work.

Life insurance

Hungryroot offers life insurance.

Paid holidays

Hungryroot provides paid holidays.

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