Senior Search & Recommendations Engineer

FIGS is looking for a Senior Search & Recommendations Engineer to join our team and take ownership over our Search & Recommendations platforms and capabilities. We’re looking for a self-starter who can work independently to build out search and recommendations services that will power FIGS ecommerce site and app. We’ll use these services to handle customer product searches, product recommendations, product listing ranking optimization, personalization, etc. 

Our backend services are written in Java with Spring Boot  and our frontend end is written in React. All of our custom services are dockerized and deployed on AWS using EKS. We use CircleCI as our build and integration platform. We use Datadog and OpsGenie for our monitoring setup.

What you'll do:

• Work as an engineer independently to iterate on our Search platform and build out recommendation services to power experiences on wearfigs.com
• Partner with our product and engineering teams to brainstorm creative solutions to address business challenges
• Build scalable, maintainable, and performant backend services
• Build and maintain services that help us integrate and aggregate core e-commerce data from our various internal and vendor platforms
• Improve our operational efficiency by automating core processes
• Provide clear and constructive feedback via code reviews
• Work with fellow engineers to maintain the quality, readability, and integrity of our codebase
• Participate in on-call schedules and writing reliable code 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years building backend services and platforms
• 5+ years of experience building cloud native architectures in AWS
• Experience working with message systems like SQS and Kafka
• Experience with graph databases like Neo4j and Neptune
• Experience with search technologies such as Solr, ElasticSearch, or OpenSearch
• Strong computer science and software design fundamentals
• Awareness of common cloud security vulnerabilities and how to avoid them
• Demonstrated ability to architect scalable and maintainable service-oriented infrastructure

Bonus points for:

• Experience working alongside Shopify, Spree, BigCommerce or other e-commerce platforms
• Experience working alongside fulfillment and warehouse management platforms
• Experience with Docker, Terraform, Shell and other standard tooling
• Experience setting up CI/CD build processes and pipelines
• Experience working with content management systems, especially Contentful

Other must haves:

• Desire to learn: We build solutions to problems. We are not looking for specific experience with our tech stack—just the willingness and sufficient experience (with an equivalent stack) to pick it up fast.
• Excellent communication skills: We rely on direct communication between our engineers and product managers. An ability to read requirements, identify edge cases, and clearly document your engineering decisions will be crucial to your success and the team’s as well.
• Collaboration: we work in small cross-functional teams and as individual engineers. We are not afraid of challenges and working together to tackle them.
• Positive attitude: we are self-starters who love to solve problems with technologies

FIGS Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range

• At FIGS, your base salary is one part of your total compensation package. This role's base salary range is between $140,000 and $180,000. Actual base salary is determined based on a number of factors, including but not limited to your relevant skills, qualifications, and years of experience. 

Additional Compensation and Benefits 

• Equity: All FIGS employees have the opportunity to own shares of FIGS stock through our new-hire equity program. Additionally, FIGS provides a discount when purchasing FIGS stock voluntarily through our FIGS Employee Stock Purchase Plan  
• Annual bonus: This position is eligible to participate in the FIGS annual bonus program

• Other compensation and benefits offered include: 
• Comprehensive benefits and perks package focused on your well-being, including premium medical, dental and vision coverage, and full access to wellness services through Breethe and Classpass. 100% FIGS-sponsored life insurance and disability insurance  
• Amazing 401(k) program, with a company match up to the first 6% of your contribution
• Generous paid time off - We have 12 company holidays. For salaried team members, we offer flexible vacation. For our hourly team members, we offer up to 3 weeks of accrued vacation
• Meaningful time away for baby bonding, including parental leave, new parent care meals, and a transition back to work for primary caregivers
• FIGS sponsored Uber Eats voucher for in-office weeks
• Personalized discount code for 50% off all FIGS products, along with a separate code to share with family and friends to enjoy a 25% discount site-wide
• Access to FIGS Vet, Discounted Pet Daycare, Discounted Pet Insurance, and so much more…

*Benefits eligibility is determined by hour requirements and length of service 

A little bit about us…

FIGS, Inc. is a founder-led, direct-to-consumer healthcare apparel and lifestyle brand that seeks to celebrate, empower and serve current and future generations of healthcare professionals. We redefine what scrubs are by creating technically advanced apparel and products that feature an unmatched combination of comfort, durability, function and style, all at an affordable price. With the largest DTC platform in healthcare apparel, we sell our products to a rapidly growing community of loyal customers. Through these customer relationships, FIGS has built a community and lifestyle around a profession, revolutionizing the large and fragmented healthcare apparel market and becoming the industry’s category-defining healthcare apparel and lifestyle brand.

Our Threads for Threads initiative is integral to our mission to improve the lives of healthcare professionals on a global scale. Founded alongside FIGS in 2013, Threads for Threads donates scrubs to healthcare professionals working in resource-poor countries around the world.