Senior Backend Engineer
Hybrid (New York, NY / Remote (US))Full-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior Backend Engineer role at Nourish, a health-tech startup delivering insurance-covered metabolic health care via telehealth. Full-time, remote or onsite/hybrid in NYC. Early-member role shaping Nourish’s core platform, collaborating with product, design, analytics, and engineering to build scalable backend systems.
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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
Required:TypescriptNode.jsPrismaPostgreSQLAWS
Benefits
- Not specified in the description, but reference to Nourish benefits page in About section.
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nourish
Telehealth dietitians covered by insurance
Nourish is solving America's healthcare crisis by helping people eat better. We connect chronic condition patients with a Registered Dietitian via telehealth and get it covered by their health insurance.
consumer-health-serviceshealthcare
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