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Nourish is a digital health platform building the country's largest dietitian-led metabolic health clinic. The company matches patients with 10,000+ Registered Dietitians, physicians, medications, lab testing, and AI agents to deliver insurance-covered care across all 50 states. Founded four years ago, Nourish has completed millions of appointments, tripled year-over-year, and partnered with health plans covering 200M+ Americans across 250+ health systems. In 2026, the company raised a $100M Series C (total funding $215M) led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Maverick Ventures, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Atomico, Daybreak, and Operator Partners.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be a key early member of the engineering team, playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of the core platform. You will report to the Engineering Manager of your Pod (either Ops or Platform) and take full ownership of major parts of the codebase, setting ambitious timelines and leading project deliverables. Working side-by-side with engineering, product, design, and analytics teams, you will drive the development of critical features that lay the foundation for years to come.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and ship cutting-edge products and features at lightning speed without compromising on quality
- Drive continuous improvements in engineering processes, tools, and systems to scale both the 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 estimations, planning, and execution of projects, features, and integrations
- Maintain and elevate the 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
The company emphasizes a culture of talent density, candid feedback, relentless resilience, and solving hard problems without ego. You will be expected to actively choose hard, ambiguous problems and run toward unglamorous work.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree 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 the tech stack (TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, AWS) or confidence and excitement about cross-training and up-skilling
- Ability to "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
- Value a collaborative, close-knit team and care about having fun and making an impact at work
- Desire to be deeply involved in product and design, not only passionate about engineering but also interested in building a product end-to-end through design, coding, testing, and deployment phases
- Think from first principles—ask why, challenge assumptions, and value the right answer over being right
Nice to haves:
- Startup or scale-up experience; resilience and ability to persevere through challenges
- Interviewing experience; the company is quickly growing its Engineering function and expects engineers to help with hiring
- Energized by the mission to improve people's health by making it easy to eat well
