Senior Backend Engineer II, Retail Engagement

The Role 

LeafLink is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer II, Retail Engagement to join our remote-friendly team, headquartered in NYC, who is passionate about working with teams that solve interesting, large-scale problems at a rapid pace. This role will contribute heavily to the buildout and iteration of LeafLink’s existing and emerging eCommerce systems, focused on the engagement of our retailers.
LeafLink is currently gearing up to tackle a large-scale platform overhaul that will strengthen our position as a technical leader within the industry. As such, this role has the opportunity to help shape and grow this new platform, as well as work within new and growing technologies. It’s a very exciting time to join our engineering team!

Ideal candidates for this position should possess a keen mind for solving tough problems with the ideal solution, partnering effectively with various team members along the way. They should be personable, efficient, flexible, and communicative, possess a strong desire to implement change, growth, and maturity, and have a passion and love for what they do. This role comes with the opportunity to be a high performer within a department that’s fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas.

What You’ll be Doing  

• Help design and continue to refine purchasing workflows as well as the APIs that power orders and invoicing. 
• Lead by example for other members of the team as a dedicated, passionate, and flexible technologist who is constantly looking for the ideal solution to a problem
• Be heavily involved in architectural decisions and the buildout of LeafLink’s new event-driven, service-oriented platform
• Be involved with critical software design decisions that will have a lasting impact on LeafLink’s platform and products
• Build integrations with our various third-party solutions and procurement partners
• Keep up to date on modern technologies and trends and advocate for their inclusion within products when it makes sense
• Work on robust shopping experience systems and services
• Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery
• Work with other team members to build and deliver industry-leading API tools that our dynamic user base has come to rely upon to power their businesses
• Be able to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve issues quickly and effectively when they arise
• Provide technical guidance and help mentor engineering, QA, operations, and product staff to deliver the best possible solutions for the company
• Help define, document, evolve, and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas
• Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis

What You’ll Bring to the Team 

• 5+ years working in a fast-paced software environment as an engineer focused on B2B marketplace or eCommerce systems, with an understanding of industry best practices.
• Ideal candidates will have experience in highly regulated industries with heavy compliance requirements, e.g. Healthcare, Cannabis, Financial products. 
• Proven track record of practical, thoughtful problem-solving
• Experience working on high-traffic, large-scale decoupled, event-driven, service-oriented systems
• Experience refactoring legacy systems in an iterative fashion
• Extensive experience working with Python and modern web frameworks
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments
• Extensive experience working with relational databases and ORMs to interact with them
• Experience with queueing systems (Celery, SQS, Pub/Sub, etc)
• Familiar with software security best practices
• Advanced experience with unit testing, its concepts, and associated tools
• Well-versed in version control systems (Git)
• Experience building applications and working with underlying systems that work within fully containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• An active member of the open-source community a plus
• An interest in the cannabis industry and/or the LeafLink brand