Lead Software Engineer
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Summary
Lead a team of 3-5 engineers doing hands-on full-stack work for a large private-sale e-commerce platform (30M+ members, ~$1B annual sales). Day-to-day involves cloud-native services on AWS/GCP, REST APIs in Python/Java/Scala/Kotlin, SPA frontends in React/Angular/Vue, plus mentoring and refactoring technical debt.
A rare opportunity to have massive impact: join the world-class team combining two of the top private sale e-commerce destinations. As a Lead software engineer, you are directly involved in transforming our technology stack to use the best tools for the job and enhancing our user experience to drive $1B annual sales and delighting 30M+ members.
You will:
We combine world-class merchandising, technology and marketing to create the most engaging and satisfying online shopping experience available. Each day, 30+ million loyal Members turn to us for everything from women, men and children's apparel and accessories to home décor and exclusive experiences. Our approach to retail brings excitement to online shopping in a way that not only strategically supports our brand partners, but also inspires our Members daily.
You will:
- Lead a team of 3-5 software engineers.
- Be a hands-on contributor across a full application stack that operates at scale.
- Lead efforts to bring new technologies and best practices into the organization.
- Utilize cloud-native architectures to deliver resilient, high-availability services.
- Build innovative customer experiences, setting standards for code quality and application performance.
- Mentor and train engineers from junior to principal level on best practices.
- Ship your first code in days working in a fast-paced agile team.
- Tackle technical debt in our existing codebase, refactoring for maintainability.
- Collaborate with product stakeholders to proactively identify technical issues and solutions for new features.
- Worked in a full-stack web development environment.
- Utilized cloud providers such as AWS or Google Cloud.
- A passion for writing maintainable, scalable, well-tested code
- Experience or interest in working with languages such as Python, Java, Scala, Kotlin and Javascript/Typescript
- Built scalable RESTful APIs using frameworks such as Django, Spring Boot or Vert.x.
- Experience with single page applications utilizing frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
- Knowledge of relational databases such as Mysql or Oracle.
- An interest in working on containerized services with Docker.
- Experience mentoring and leading people at different stages in their career.
- Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, QA Engineers, Data Scientists, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists.
We combine world-class merchandising, technology and marketing to create the most engaging and satisfying online shopping experience available. Each day, 30+ million loyal Members turn to us for everything from women, men and children's apparel and accessories to home décor and exclusive experiences. Our approach to retail brings excitement to online shopping in a way that not only strategically supports our brand partners, but also inspires our Members daily.