Job description
About Us
At Hungryroot, we understand that food is deeply personal—it fuels our bodies and minds, impacting how we feel and function every day. Yet, the current food system makes it difficult to make healthy, enjoyable choices. With busy lifestyles and traditional grocery experiences that leave us overwhelmed, many struggle to find balance. Hungryroot is changing that through a seamless digital experience designed to make healthy eating effortless. At Hungryroot, we’re building the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist, empowering people to eat healthier, feel better, and make food choices that truly support their well-being.
We are a distributed team built on top talent from over 28 states across the U.S. While we have a headquarters in New York City, we support employees working from wherever they are based. We believe in fostering team connection and collaboration across all of ourOur cutting-edge AI technology, SmartCart™, powers a personalized meal planning and grocery shopping experience that is tailored to each customer’s unique preferences, dietary needs, budget, and goals. By recommending the right groceries and recipes, SmartCart™ saves hours of meal prep and shopping time, reduces stress, and ensures that customers always have fresh, nutritious options on hand. With an intuitive, easy-to-use digital platform, we bring variety and convenience to the forefront, helping customers discover new foods they love, while minimizing waste and saving money. employees’ locations. Expect to attend regular team building events and an annual company retreat. Expect to be treated like an owner who cares about our common goal, not someone who has to clock in and out of work.
About the Role
Hungryroot is looking for a Sr. Frontend Software Engineer to join our growing Engineering Team. This individual will be responsible for application design, implementation and maintenance for the consumer facing web interface of Hungryroot. This includes the logged in and logged out experience. A successful Senior Frontend Software Engineer will partner with stakeholders to translate functional requirements into technical requirements and work with their team to bring that vision to life.
At Hungryroot, the Frontend team deploys continuously to Production after pull requests are approved and merged. Applicants should be experts with manually testing their code through happy path and edge cases for bugs and should be very comfortable writing unit tests with Vitest or similar libraries.
Responsibilities
- Complete projects from start to finish, ensuring detail oriented execution from Figma designs
- Design and implement responsive and maintainable web components using functional React with css modules
- Collaborate with team members in similar areas in the code while operating mostly independently
- Communicates project updates and blockers; unafraid to ask questions to keep projects moving forward. Routinely work alongside Product Managers, Designers, Data Analysts, QA, Backend, Frontend, and Mobile Engineers
- Peer review others’ pull requests for accuracy, bugs, and code quality
- Translate business requirements into precise, clear, and straightforward technical specs and/or documentation
- Write bug reports and supplemental user stories in JIRA
- Contribute to enhancing code quality and reducing technical debt
Qualifications
- 5+ years working with React w/ Typescript
- Proficient with automation testing (Vitest, Playwright)
- Proficient with evolving CSS standards
- Experience with production-level frontend monitoring, error observability, and performance tuning (Sentry, Datadog, etc.)
- Experience implementing web security best practices
- Strong communication skills
- Self-driven and operates well in remote-first role
Nice to haves
- Familiarity with any of React-Query, React-Aria, React-Router, Astro, Storybook, animation libraries (framer-motion, spring, etc.), Zod or similar validation libraries, NX for managing multiple projects, ESLint
- Familiarity with accessibility and UX best practices
- Experience debugging UI rendering issues on different platforms / devices
- Experience with agentic coding via Cursor or similar
- Mobile-first design principles
- Production on-call experience
- Experience with CI/CD (Github Actions preferred), Docker, NGINX
- Server-side rendered React (Remix, Tanstack, Next)
Perks & Benefits
- Remote Work Optional: Work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere, you decide!
- Competitive compensation + comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Monthly Hungryroot credit
- Universal paid parental leave
- 401k with Match
- Commuter benefits
- A working environment filled with passionate, happy, smart people!
Expected Pay Range:
$150,000 - $160,000
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The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
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 any protected class.
