Senior Software Engineer

About the role

America's Test Kitchen is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering team. This role is crucial for shaping our technical direction and driving impactful, challenging projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-cutting features across the full stack
• Set the technical direction and see projects through from scoping to production
• Partner deeply with product managers and designers to shape requirements and advocate for the best solutions
• Mentor and actively develop mid-level and associate engineers through pairing, feedback, and leading by example
• Contribute to team-level engineering strategy, shaping how we approach testing, deployment, observability, and engineering excellence

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex features in production environments
• Deep full-stack proficiency - you can own any layer of the stack and have strong opinions about how to build things well
• Strong system design skills - you can reason about scalability, reliability, and tradeoffs across distributed systems
• Experience leading technical projects end-to-end, including scoping, planning, and coordinating across team members
• A track record of mentoring other engineers and elevating team quality through collaboration and code review
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
• Proven experience working on high-traffic, customer-facing web applications
• A passion for continuous learning and a "test and learn" mindset

Benefits

The company offers a competitive salary range of $150,000 to $170,000, with the actual salary determined by multiple factors including relevant experience, job-related knowledge, geographical location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Why You’ll Love Working at America's Test Kitchen

• Build products used by millions of passionate home cooks
• Work on a modern, evolving tech stack with real-world scale and complexity
• Have meaningful influence on technical decisions without people-management overhead
• Collaborate with thoughtful, mission-driven teammates across engineering, product, data, and marketing
• Join a company that values experimentation, learning, and craftsmanship

About America's Test Kitchen

The mission of America's Test Kitchen (ATK) is to empower and inspire confidence, community, and creativity in the kitchen. Founded in 1992, the company is the leading multimedia cooking resource serving millions of fans with TV shows, a magazine, cookbooks, a podcast, FAST channels, short-form video series, and the ATK Essential Membership for digital content. Based in a state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot test kitchen in Boston's Seaport District, ATK has earned the trust of home cooks and culinary experts alike thanks to its one-of-a-kind processes and best-in-class techniques. Fifty full-time (admittedly very meticulous) test cooks, editors, and product testers spend their days tweaking every variable to find the very best recipes, equipment, ingredients, and techniques.