# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Nourish](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nourish)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma, Postgres, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-04-03

> Senior Backend Engineer owns major codebase sections, designs and ships high-performance features using TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Requires 5+ years backend experience, bachelor's/master's in CS/engineering, and collaborative problem-solving in a startup environment.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and ship cutting-edge products and features at lightning speed without compromising on quality.
- Drive continuous improvements in our engineering processes, tools, and systems to scale both our 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 the estimations, planning and execution of projects, features, and integrations.
- Maintain and elevate our 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.

## Requirements

- **Bachelor’s or Master’s** 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 our tech stack (**Typescript**, **Node.js**, **Prisma**, **PostgreSQL**, **AWS**) or confidence and excitement about cross-training and up-skilling!
- 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.
- Think work should feel like play. You value a very collaborative, close-knit team and care about having fun and making an impact at work.
- Want to be deeply involved in product and design. You are not only passionate about engineering but also have a desire to build a product end-to-end, through the 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. You have that dog in you; you’re resilient and persevere through challenges.
- Interviewing Experience. We’re quickly growing our Engineering function and expect our Engineers to help us do so!
- Energized by our mission. Our mission defines everything we do, we need engineers hungry to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well.

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