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Our platform is designed to foster healthier food choices, drive lasting behavior change, and deliver long-term health outcomes. Through our highly personalized, digital platform, we guide our 2.2 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.\nFoodsmart 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 will help us expand our reach, particularly to low-income workers who are disproportionately affected by diet-related diseases.\nAt 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:\nCustomer First - You start with the member and work backwards.\nMake It Happen - You act with urgency, use data, and hold high standards.\nOne Team - You collaborate with respect and commit as a group.\nWhether 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.\n| About the role:\nAs a Staff Engineer at Foodsmart, you are a senior technical leader responsible for designing and scaling critical backend and data systems that power our consumer experiences, clinical workflows, and partner integrations.\nThis is not a people-manager role. You will lead through technical excellence, architecture ownership, and influence across teams. You will partner closely with product, data, and engineering leadership to build resilient, secure, and scalable systems that meet enterprise and healthcare-grade requirements.\nYou are expected to operate beyond a single team’s scope, drive cross-team technical initiatives, and elevate engineering quality and standards across the organization.\nYou will\nFull Stack Architecture & Platform Design\nOwn and evolve end-to-end architecture across frontend (web), mobile, backend services, and data platforms.\nDesign scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting millions of users and sensitive healthcare data.\nDefine and drive adoption of architectural patterns across frontend, backend, and mobile teams.\nLead design reviews and author RFCs for complex initiatives spanning multiple teams.\nEnsure systems meet enterprise-grade requirements for availability, performance, observability, and compliance.\nFrontend Engineering (Web)\nBuild modern web applications using React and TypeScript.\nDefine frontend architectural standards (state management, API patterns, component structure, performance, accessibility).\nPartner with design and product to deliver high-quality user experiences with strong UX consistency.\nDrive improvements in frontend performance, reliability, and maintainability.\nMobile Engineering (iOS / Android / React Native)\nContribute to and influence architecture for Foodsmart’s mobile applications.\nCollaborate on mobile-specific patterns including offline support, caching, push notifications, deep linking, analytics, and app release workflows.\nEnsure mobile experiences are secure, performant, and consistent with backend and web platforms.\nPartner with mobile engineers to define shared API and integration standards.\nImprove mobile developer velocity through tooling, testing strategies, and CI/CD best practices.\nBackend & Data Engineering\nDesign and maintain high-performance APIs (REST and event-based) serving web, mobile, and partner integrations.\nBuild durable SQL and NoSQL data models with strong reliability and scalability guarantees.\nDevelop backend systems using TypeScript / Node.js and AWS-native services (Lambda, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2).\nLead data modeling decisions, migrations, and long-term maintainability improvements.\nPartner with security and compliance teams to implement HIPAA-aware and privacy-first designs.\nAI-Enabled Engineering Practices\nChampion AI-assisted workflows across design, implementation, testing, and DevOps.\nHelp establish guardrails and best practices for responsible AI usage across engineering.\nIdentify opportunities to embed AI/ML capabilities into product systems (e.g., personalization, automation, workflow optimization).\nImprove engineering velocity using AI tooling without compromising quality, security, or compliance.\nDevOps, Reliability & Scalability\nDrive cloud-native architecture practices using Docker and Kubernetes.\nPartner with DevOps to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment safety.\nEstablish best practices for observability, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.\nProactively identify and mitigate scalability, performance, and reliability risks across web, mobile, and backend.\nCross-Team Influence & Delivery Leadership\nCollaborate with product, design, data, clinical, and business teams to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions.\nInfluence roadmap decisions through strong technical insight and execution planning.\nLead cross-team initiatives, ensuring alignment on architecture, delivery sequencing, and long-term maintainability.\nCommunicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nMentorship & Engineering Excellence\nMentor senior and mid-level engineers on system design, technical decision-making, and full stack best practices.\nRaise engineering standards through code reviews, design feedback, and technical coaching.\nPromote shared ownership and a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.\nDrive adoption of shared libraries, patterns, and platform capabilities across teams.\nYou have\nExperience & Scope\n8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful ownership of full stack systems in production environments.\nDemonstrated success leading complex initiatives across frontend, backend, and/or mobile domains.\nExperience influencing architecture and technical direction beyond a single team.\nFull Stack Technical Expertise\nStrong hands-on experience with TypeScript across both backend and frontend systems.\nDeep experience building modern web applications using React.\nExperience working with mobile applications (native iOS/Android and/or React Native).\nStrong understanding of frontend performance optimization, accessibility, and scalable UI architecture.\nStrong experience designing and operating RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.\nAdvanced knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and familiarity with NoSQL systems.\nStrong AWS experience (Lambda, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2, IAM, networking).\nSolid understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, caching, concurrency, fault tolerance).\nExperience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.\nEngineering Leadership Skills\nStrong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, CI/CD, QA automation, and DevOps best practices.\nProven ability to lead through influence rather than authority.\nClear, structured communicator capable of explaining complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.\nTrack record of driving adoption of shared standards, platforms, or engineering best practices.\nBonus / Nice to Have\nExperience in healthcare, fintech, or other regulated domains.\nExperience with HIPAA compliance, PHI security, and privacy-first design.\nExposure to low-code platforms like Retool.\nExperience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Redshift).\nExperience working with globally 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