Senior Software Engineer - Ruby/elixir - Remote Eligible

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Our Customer Experience team is looking for a kind and curious Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) who enjoys solving challenging problems.

Our awesome team of friendly humans is responsible for making it easy and compelling for individuals to consign items. We place a strong focus on individual growth and personal development on our collaborative engineering team.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be an active hands-on contributor as well as a strong influencer for our technical direction. You will be able to lead and contribute to significant initiatives as well as provide mentorship through code reviews and pairing.

We are especially excited about you if you are enthusiastic about working in the luxury retail/e-commerce space or if you are passionate about our mission of sustainability in creating a circular economy for high-end goods.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Customer Experience and will be fully remote.

Responsibilities:

• Produce high-quality, performant, and testable code that directly contributes to company-wide initiatives
• Develop using interesting technologies -- Elixir, Ruby, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Kafka, AWS/Lambda, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Have significant input into technical decisions that will shape the future of our software systems
• Learn something new, whether it's a new software design pattern or new initiative to push the company forward
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback to your peers
• Pair up with a team member to work together on features
• Deploy user-facing code to production.

Requirements:

• 5+ years professional software development experience
• Fluency with either Elixir or Ruby
• Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript) as well as HTML and CSS
• Experience with React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as Node.js and npm
• Familiarity with common programming tools such as IDEs, RESTful APIs, Git repositories, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools
• Familiarity with event based architectures, database fundamentals and GraphQL
• Enthusiasm for solving problems for our users with technology
• Curiosity about retail/e-commerce, the high-end consignment market, and/or how to create a sustainable, circular economy for luxury goods
• Bonus Points
• Experience with Kafka for event-streaming
• Experience extracting microservices from a monolith