Backend Software Engineer, Catalog

At Boxed, our mission is to address the evolving data needs of businesses through our experience within the e-Commerce landscape. What began as an end-to-end solution for Boxed.com is now a world-class suite of SaaS products, powered by advanced analytics and machine learning. Retailers and companies of various industries can easily produce deep business insights, resulting in data-driven, positive outcomes in all facets of their operations.

Our Engineering team is a brilliant cultivator of technology powering our world class platform & SaaS spanning everything from Catalog, Orders & Fulfillment, and Personalization. Being part of Boxed’s Engineering team means you’ll work with wicked-smart individuals from all over the world who contribute as engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists. Every day our Engineering team innovates in the depths of e-commerce with the latest technologies and we’re excited to welcome engineers who are ready for a challenge and know how to think outside the box!

We are looking for talented Software Engineers to join our back-end Catalog Services team, whose focus is enhancing our product offerings & presentation, our search capabilities, our various personalization features driven by machine learning and real-time experimentation, and our internal tooling. As part of this team, our engineers are expected to ensure that all services are built to be efficient, reliable, scalable and reusable.

You will:

• Develop, test, and deploy APIs & event driven processes supporting our eCommerce platform using Node.js & Typescript onto Google Cloud Platform
• Think big and boldly as we collectively drive toward providing the best global e-commerce and SaaS platform
• Design and implement solutions that provide immediate and long-lasting value to our customers, partners, and employees
• Collaborate with our product teams in domain-driven, cross-functional teams
• Improve the performance, reliability, observability, and scalability of our existing systems
• Write clear documentation and thorough automated tests to ensure code stability and to reduce maintenance
• Review your peers’ code to both teach and learn while increasing the quality of our software
• Ship code that directly impacts our customers' experience
• Take responsibility and diagnose production issues.

Requirements:

• Proven results and products from 3+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Bootcamp and professional experience
• Experience writing production code in backend applications using Node.js
• Strong Database skills (e.g. MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a healthy experimental attitude
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment
• Strong verbal and oral communication skills – you should be able to communicate your work through many mediums including stand ups, documentation, presentations, etc.

Nice-To-Haves:

• Experience with Typescript, Golang, or Python
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with technologies such as Redis, Memcached, and Elasticsearch
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform experience with CI/CD infrastructure such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.

Benefits & Perks:

• Working with smart, positive people
• Competitive Base Salary = $120,000 to $140,000 per year
• Stock options
• Unlimited vacation
• Full healthcare benefits.