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About Us
Nourish is on a mission to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well. Nutrition-related chronic disease is the largest and most overlooked crisis in the world. Food can be medicine: working with a Registered Dietitian is one of the most effective interventions available, but <1% of eligible Americans use their covered benefits.
Nourish is building an AI-native, patient-friendly healthcare system centered on nutrition that improves outcomes, lowers costs, and helps people live healthier, longer lives. We launched three years ago, are live in all 50 states, and already have thousands of dietitians and hundreds of thousands of patients on the platform.
We are growing quickly, have partnered with national health insurance companies and provider groups, and have raised $115M from top-tier VCs including JP Morgan Growth Equity, Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Maverick Ventures, Box Group, Atomico, G Squared, and Pinegrove Venture Partners. Our angel investors include world-class healthcare founders from Oscar, Rightway Health, Headway, Spring Health, and Alto Pharmacy, as well as soccer star Alex Morgan and the founders from Olipop and Notion.
Learn more about us here and read about our recent Series B here.
About the Role:
Nourish is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to drive execution of complex initiatives, and contribute directly to our codebase and technical direction. You’ll work closely with product, design, analytics, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-impact features with strong ownership and quality.
You will:
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers while maintaining a technical role in architecture and implementation.
- Execute and deliver on the objectives you help set.
- Partner with product and design to define objectives, scoping, and delivery timelines.
- Drive thoughtful decision-making around system design, code quality, observability, and scalability.
This role is full-time and hybrid out of Nourish’s NYC office in the heart of Union Square. Check out ‘Engineering at Nourish’ to learn more about our team and what we’ve already built, and our Engineering Values!
Key responsibilities:
- Foster a high-performing engineering pod with strong technical ownership.
- Coach and mentor engineers through regular feedback cycles and career development.
- Help scale the team through recruitment, interviewing, and onboarding.
- Contribute directly to architectural decisions and core system design.
- Participate in coding, code reviews, on-call, and hands-on implementation across the stack.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, quality, and automation.
- Partner with product and design to define requirements, plan sprints, and execute deliverables.
- Collaborate across functions to solve meaningful, data-driven problems in a fast-paced environment.
- Ensure reliable releases and maintainability of core systems.
We’d love to hear from you if you:
- Have 7 years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies.
- Have 2 years of experience leading and developing engineering teams in a scaling environment.
- Are highly proficient with React, Typescript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, or similar modern stacks.
- Are excited to stay hands-on with code and technical execution.
- Can balance people leadership with technical depth, delivery focus, and clarity in ambiguous contexts.
- Are passionate about building impactful products in an early-stage, mission-driven company.
- Nice to Have’s
- AI Use. Comfort with AI workflows and building AI products
- Startup or Scale Up experience. You have that dog in you; you’re resilient and persevere through challenges.
- Interviewing familiarity. 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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