Principal Software Engineer

Ibotta is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. The IPN (Ibotta Performance Network) Experiences Organization is looking for an individual to drive the transformation of our publisher, client, and internal operations experiences to be streamlined, engaging, and automated. The Principal Engineer role will report directly to the Senior Engineering Director of IPN Experiences.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Join special projects as needed through coding, guiding, and mentoring to ensure sound architectural implementation and smooth execution and delivery

• Be accountable for the coordination, execution, and outcomes of system design and architecture of data driven systems (including client focused groups)

• Be the first point of contact to and from the Architecture Team and participate as appropriate in Architecture Team activities

• Monitor current topics and the architectural direction of other groups, and keep IPN Experiences leaders and Staff+ engineers informed

• Establish architecture vision, principles, and patterns in alignment with the Architecture Team

• Work closely with the Senior/Engineering Directors, and Staff+ Engineers to inform the technical strategy for IPN Experiences and its comprised groups

• Partner with and across engineering groups to help maintain Ibotta’s Technology Radar

• Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency & A good idea can come from anywhere.

What we are looking for:

• 7+ years of experience in software development

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required

• Fundamental knowledge of object-oriented software design, development and architectural principles

• Strong track record of success in driving results as a senior technical team lead and coach/mentor to more junior engineers

• Expertly work across stacks and design with client and platform in mind

• Proven expertise owning and driving high-level decisions around object-oriented software design, development and architectural principles

• Highly effective in leading others collaboratively to deliver a common vision

• Deep understanding of development best practices including security, compliance, performance, optimization, reliability, cost efficiency, etc.

• Deep understanding of building highly scalable, observable, and fault tolerant platforms using architectural patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, rate limiters, etc on top of horizontally scalable systems

• Proven experience with relevant technologies such as Typescript, JavaScript libraries and frameworks, Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotlin, Nodejs, etc, and data stores such as MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc, and knowing when to use each 

• Proven experience designing and implementing observability, monitoring and alerting for services and establishing SLOs for services

• High level of investment and expertise in testing approaches and frameworks, from unit testing to automated testing

• Proven expertise with cloud environments (AWS strongly preferred), DevOps best practices, and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, etc)

• Deep understanding of architectural concepts, microservices, serverless, event-driven, platforms, etc.

• Experience building design systems, reusable web components, and site factories, a major plus

Some of the traits that we seek in great engineers:

• You….

  • love to teach and learn from your co-workers

  • look for ways to continually challenge yourself and develop as an engineer

  • understand that communication is a huge part of your software engineering responsibility and practice it daily

  • understand that testing your code is one of the most important aspects of software engineering

  • respect diverse perspectives and like collaborating with other engineers to solve hard problems

  • understand that delivering products incrementally helps provide more value to the business

  • trust your teammates, and embrace healthy conflict and debate. You believe getting it right is more important than being right

About Us:

Built and headquartered in Denver, Colo., Ibotta ("I bought a...") is a performance marketing platform that allows brands to deliver digital promotions to millions of consumers through a network of publishers called the Ibotta Performance Network (IPN). Ibotta’s network allows marketers to influence what people buy, and where and how often they shop – all while paying only when their campaigns directly result in a sale.

Guided by our values and our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding, we come to work energized by the business problems we get to solve, the technology we build, the innovative people we work (and have fun) with, and the consumers we get to help. To date, we have credited consumers $1.5B.

Ibotta was named to the 2021 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row, after debuting on the list in 2018. The company has also been named as a Top Workplace by The Denver Post four consecutive times, made BuiltIn Colorado’s Best Places to Work list three years in a row and appeared on Inc.’s list of Best Workplaces in 2017 and 2023.

To learn more about what our Tech teams are doing day to day, visit Building Ibotta on Medium.com.

Additional Details:

• This position is located in Denver, CO and includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), Lifestyle Spending Account, and 401k match. Denver office perks include paid parking, bagel Thursdays, snacks and occasional meals.  

• Base compensation range: $160,000 - $185,000. Equity is included in overall compensation package. This compensation range is specific to the United States labor market and may be adjusted based on actual experience. Total compensation for this role also includes a variable component in addition to base salary.

• Ibotta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ibotta’s employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

• For the security of our employees and the business, all employees are responsible for the secure handling of data in accordance with our security policies, identifying and reporting phishing attempts, as well as reporting security incidents to the proper channels.

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