Back End Developer

Lead Backend Engineer

Chicago, IL – Onsite 3 days per week

About the Role: As a Lead Back End Engineer (SE IV) , you will be expected to increase the team’s ability to deliver high-quality software solutions by contributing to development efforts, driving improvements in practices with AI-assisted coding, and mentoring other team members.

You'd be joining Fridge Tech , the team that builds the software and integrates with the hardware that runs our Fridges. This role sits on the Fridge back end — the application living on each machine that handles the critical path of successfully vending an item to a customer.

This is also a role with real influence over how we use AI. We're actively building our standards for LLM-assisted development, and we expect our engineers to be fluent with these tools and be ready to continue exploring.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing and deployment
• Work on complex problems that set our company up for short and long-term success
• Build POCs quickly to prove out ideas and resolve uncertainty
• Lead technical architecture discussions and contribute in the ones other engineers are leading
• Perform timely PR reviews
• Explore what's newly possible with the latest AI tooling and help shape our broader strategy around it
• Level up the team's aggregate skill through mentorship
• Improve our engineering practices and standards to accelerate the pace of delivery
• Work across greenfield and legacy systems, refactoring and modernizing existing services where it makes sense
• Raise the testing floor on the systems they touch
• Partner with Product to stay aligned on business goals
• Have creative liberty to operate and push the boundary
• Help out the menu development team by tasting new recipes

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, and a clear understanding of software best practices
• Strong experience with Go or an equivalent language (Java, C++/C#, Typescript/Nodejs, or Python)
• Experience integrating with hardware and third-party device firmware, and operating in Linux-based environments
• Experience creating deliberate approaches to LLM-assisted development, staying current as the tooling changes, and helps the team do the same
• Comfortability working in a legacy codebase and/or a greenfield project, and has a passion to significantly improve standards

Bonus points if you have

• AWS cloud experience
• Passion for healthy food