Soylent is a simple, healthy, affordable drink designed to efficiently serve the staple food needs of the planet.

Working at Soylent you'll have a platform to build cool things that positively affect the world with fun and dedicated people.

Soylent is a small but rapidly growing company with team members having unique backgrounds and experiences. Each new person that joins the Soylent team will be integral in helping to shape the overall culture of the company.

We are now shipping Soylent nationwide and collecting over $1 million / month in new orders to a highly engaged customer base of 60,000+ and growing. We also have investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures, and Y-Combinator. This enables us to offer the benefits of a larger organization while still maintaining the best qualities of a startup. You’ll be able to help grow the engineering team from the early stages, rapidly ship software, and be influential in key early decisions. All this while at the same time working at a company that strongly values work/life balance and has great Healthcare and 401k plans.

• Meaningful work - Giving customers 1,000’s of extra hours they would’ve spent eating
• Work/life balance - We understand burnout is real and the makers/managers schedule
• Interesting people - We embrace unique and diverse backgrounds
• Working with the best - Hardware, software, and people
• Engineering culture starts at the top - Rob, the CEO, is a software engineer
• A constant learning environment - Dedicated time devoted to learning new things

Benefits - Health, dental, and vision benefits - Life insurance and disability benefits - Relocation support - 401(k) plan - Flexible work hours - Beautiful office in the heart of DTLA - Competitive salary and equity package

Skills we look for in every team member While each position at Soylent requires its own particular set of skills, there are three things that we look for in every member of the Soylent team.

• A love for learning (even better, teaching).
• The ability to communicate and write well.
• A passion for making things.

The Software Engineer Position

Soylent’s engineers build software to help get Soylent into customers hands as quickly and easily as possible. You’ll be tasked with creating tools to help with many aspects of e-commerce companies that operate at our scale. Projects in our pipeline include creating a robust order management system, integrating various data sources from 3rd party services into our backend databases, improving our internal business intelligence reporting tools, implementing processes to make our operating teams more effective, growing our e-commerce management tooling, and more.

We try to be as language agnostic as possible, choosing to work with the best tools and languages for the job (Although we really like Python and JavaScript). Scaling to meet consumer demand for Soylent will require engineers with knowledge in diverse areas such as building out our internal dev-ops tools or working closely with UX designers and frontend engineers to create great software experiences.

Responsibilities - Design and develop software with high level scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, etc. - Integrating with existing databases and APIs for payments and shipping - Building internal APIs for use by our frontend clients - Selecting frameworks, packages, and services - Securing the data and privacy of all of our customers - Site analytics and usability testing - Working closely with UX designers, frontend developers, and 3rd parties - Building out our internal databases, both relational on NoSQL - Building devops and QA tools to increase internal development speed, reliability and efficiency - Ownership of projects that interest you

Skills - Experience building things with high level scripting programming languages like JavaScript and Python. - The ability to make pragmatic engineering decisions in a short amount of time