Staff Software Engineer

About This Job

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team. Our bar for Staff is a very seasoned, experienced engineer with expertise in several core technologies in their domain, mastery of other relevant technologies, and a passion for understanding emerging technologies in the industry. In this role, you'll contribute to driving our e-commerce product and platform forward and mentor engineers on the team along the way. You will have the opportunity to leverage your technical skills and experience to impact the quality and scalability of our products directly. With a Dutchie-scale e-commerce platform and high organizational importance, this team has endless technical ownership and advancement opportunities. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about building great products for an engaged customer base, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do...

• Solving the most complex problems generally encountered by teams with little oversight. 
• Proactively identifying complex issues to be solved along with solutions for solving them. 
• Be a tremendous asset during on-call and active on open incidents within your charter; be able to debug, mitigate, and resolve them. 
• Being a technical leader in your team, providing mentoring and architectural guidance. Junior members will seek your expertise and ask technical questions before seeking answers outside your team. 
• Will work on problems across the Charter and proactively source work or partner with Charter leaders to run technical projects. 
• Teach the team how to build high-quality, reliable, performant, and scalable solutions and teach others how to use tools (like DataDog, Launch Darkly, etc.). 
• Work directly with squad captains to plan their team’s roadmap, including surfacing technical items.

What You Bring...

• Deep understanding of backend server languages, including Ruby/Rails and Node.js, and general software best practices
• Experience in front-end best practices within React, knowing how to match designs to build beautiful UI/UX flows
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and working in distributed systems
• Experience designing and extending scalable data models and the data stores they depend on
• You take pride in the code you write - it's clean, tested, organized, and pragmatic
• You understand product-led technical approaches. You seek to understand the product goals of the platform and can lead the team in finding well-fitted technical solutions.
• Self-starter - you're proactive and can start projects and tasks without constant direction
• Quick learner - you pick up new frameworks and technologies quickly
• Pragmatic in technical choices, you understand how to choose and work within a variety of technical tools
• Positive and effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• You want to work in a high-quality agile environment - we move quickly and ship code often
• Experience with testing and monitoring frameworks 
• 10+ years of related experience

It's a bonus if you...

• Experience in large-scale enterprise systems
• Experience tuning, profiling, and digging deep into MongoDB
• Experience in e-commerce applications

You’ll Get…

We are targeting a starting salary of $190,000 based on the intended level for this role. There may be flexibility on individual compensation packages based candidate skill set, experience, qualifications and other position-related factors.

In addition to cash compensation, our total rewards package includes:

• Full medical benefits including dental and vision plans to ensure you always have the best care.
• Equity packages in the form of stock options to all employees.
• Technology (hardware, software, reading materials, etc..) allowance
• Flexible vacation and sick days

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