Senior Software Engineer

<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Job Description: Senior Software Engineer</span></h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Location: Hybrid (New York, NY) or Remote</span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">About Gaia K-12</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></h2> <p>At Gaia K-12, we’re transforming the way public school cafeterias operate. Our mission is to empower school nutrition teams to focus on creating healthy and delicious meals by providing user-friendly, next-generation tools tailored to their needs.</p> <p>Our team is driven by innovation, collaboration, and a passion for making a meaningful impact. We believe in giving our teammates the autonomy to make their own decisions, being customer-obsessed and empathetic, fostering transparency and collaboration, and embracing endless curiosity.</p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Role</span></h2> <p>We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Technology team, reporting to the CTO. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in building key components of our software and supporting the success of our customers. You will work closely with the team to build, scale, and optimize our product/platform, while fostering a collaborative and creative work environment. You’ll also work directly with our advisors and customers to hear their challenges first-hand and show how the solutions we’re building can help them. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on a modern technology platform and help shape the future of public school nutrition.</p> <p>This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, designing scalable solutions, and mentoring teammates while contributing directly to the success of a mission-driven SaaS company. You’ll build and deliver key features, make software architecture decisions, design data models, enhance our CI/CD pipeline, and help evolve our technology and our processes.</p> <p>You will work closely with our existing engineering team, customers, and cross-functional partners to deliver impactful solutions and keep our platform running smoothly and evolving to meet the needs of school nutrition teams nationwide.</p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Technology</span></h2> <p>Our platform leverages tools like Node, TypeScript, RedwoodJS, Prisma, MySQL, Redis, and GraphQL to power our functionality, along with ReactJS and MaterialUI on the f