Location: Los Angeles
Reports to: Software Engineering Manager
At sweetgreen, we're building the digital backbone that powers how millions of customers order real food every day. As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Digital Customer team, you'll design, build, and own the backend services that support ordering, loyalty, payments, personalization, and mission-critical vendor integrations.
This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working deep in distributed systems, cares about reliability and data correctness, and thrives when owning complex services end-to-end—from API design through production observability.
You'll work closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and Infrastructure partners to evolve our platform in ways that scale with both customer growth and business ambition.
Sweetgreen's customer experience depends on backend systems that are resilient, observable, and adaptable. As we expand personalization, loyalty, and real-time ordering capabilities, we need senior engineers who can:
Your work will directly affect how quickly customers can order, how reliably rewards are applied, and how confidently our teams can build on top of shared systems.
You'll be supported with a structured 90-day onboarding plan, defined in partnership with your manager, with clear goals and regular check-ins.
While tailored to your experience and domain, the plan generally follows this progression:
By the end of 90 days, you'll be a confident owner of backend systems and a trusted contributor to delivery and technical decision-making.
We're technology-agnostic but opinionated about quality. Our systems leverage tools like NestJS, GraphQL, Ruby, React Native, and AWS-based infrastructure. We prioritize sustainable architecture, clear documentation, and systems that teams can confidently build on.
Senior engineers at sweetgreen are trusted technical leaders. They influence architecture, mentor others, and help the organization move faster by making systems clearer, safer, and easier to evolve.
Come join the sweetlife!
About sweetgreen
sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we're committed to leaving people better than we found them. We're in the business of feeding people, and we're out to change what that means.
sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Founded in 2007, sweetgreen is a destination for simple, seasonal, healthy food. We believe the choices we make about what we eat, where it comes from and how it’s prepared have a direct and powerful impact on the health of individuals, communities and the environment. That’s why we’re building a transparent supply network, why we cook from scratch, and why we’re building a community of people who support real food.
We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.
These six core values embody our culture, spirit and dedication to doing what’s right. They keep us aligned and help us make decisions about everything from the food we serve to the way we design our stores.
create solutions where the company wins, the customer wins, the community wins.
make decisions that last longer than you will.
cultivate authentic food and relationships.
create meaningful connections every day
leave people better than you found them.
celebrate your passion and your purpose.
Our mission is to inspire healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We know that sweetgreen is a critical link between growers and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food. To that end, we’re committed to supporting small and mid-size growers who are farming sustainably, to creating transparency around what’s in your food and where it came from, and to creating more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people. Because here at sweetgreen, impact is not an arm of our business, it is our business, and it permeates everything we do, from what we source to who we hire and how we support local communities. We want to make an impact and leave people better than we found them, and we tailor our approach in each market to reflect the needs of the community.