Principal Software Engineer, Search | Consumer Platform

Title: Principal Software Engineer, Search | Consumer Platform
Location: Remote from anywhere in the US.

Job Purpose: Join the LTK Family!  We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who has experience building search, and recommendation products. Someone who is passionate about tackling challenging features and interesting problems at scale. You'll be working with a team of highly motivated and fast-moving professionals focused on creating innovative features, services, and products. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor in the era of retail digital evolution. We are on the bleeding edge of a new industry. We created the space 11 years ago and will continue to disrupt it with our technology!

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership over existing Search Infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance, and availability 
• Architecting and developing web, software, and mobile apps.
• Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
• Write very high-quality code that is robust and easy to maintain with tests.
• Drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects.
• Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
• Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
• Conduct peer design/code reviews.
• Work with distributed teams across different time zones.
• Technical subject matter expert, who mentors fellow engineers, demonstrates technical experience, and leads teams in solving challenging problems.
• Participate in setting a vision and objectives for Search Services in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• A strong understanding of large scale search technologies, such as Algolia Search and ElasticSearch etc
• History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
• Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
• Experience working in a containerized environment (preferably Docker).
• Experience writing services in Golang.
• Proven experience designing and scaling relational databases.
• Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
• Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
• Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
• Ability to model and conceptualize the integrations across complex systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have:

• Prior experience in eCommerce.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
• Knowledge of domain driven design.

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