Senior Software Engineer (Back End) - Sell Team

Why you'll love this role

Seller service team is the backend service team under the Sell Experience Team umbrella.  The Sell Experience Team builds tools and experiences to help casual and professional sellers alike, from around the world, list, manage, sell, and ship their products. The team is charged with growing the selling side of our business and ensuring a healthy marketplace for sellers and buyers.  We also have a grand vision to build a scalable seller platform that includes a dedicated UX and backend services for managing all things related to selling, integrations with other ecommerce platforms like Shopify, and dedicated public APIs to enable our tech-savvy sellers to build their own storefront.  

We are looking for motivated, highly enthusiastic engineers to join Sell Service team that will be at the forefront of building and launching the next set of seller power tools to meet the demands of our explosive business growth. Our engineers are empowered to take ownership of technology decisions and solutions while playing a pivotal role in establishing a successful engineering culture at our fast-growing company.  

Our technical stack comprises various systems and services built on Amazon Web Services. We use GraphQL, GoLang, NodeJS, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Harness, Terraform, LaunchDarkly and Datadog. 

What you'll do

• Work with product owners, internal stakeholders, program managers and engineering managers to crystallize ambiguous requirements and propose resilient technical solutions which scale to future business needs
• Lead junior engineers in the team to take these proposed solutions and architect and design them 
• Efficiently break up large system designs and guide the junior team members in detailed component design. Help the team to implement, deploy and monitor systems and services 
• Propose and adopt best engineering practices and guide development standards 
• Foster a growth mindset culture. Be a team player. Contribute to and follow team processes for better sprint outcomes 
• Apply considerations around security, scalability, reliability, and performance while proposing and building solutions 
• Use sound technical judgment to consider technology alternatives, impact on affected and adjacent systems, and design choice tradeoffs
• Demonstrate complete ownership of services for your area of work. Participate in supporting your systems and services through any system upgrades, live site issues and others 
• Provide timely communication to stakeholders and users for resolving issues 

About you

• 5-8 years of relevant development experience 
• Experience with distributed architecture. Proficiency in one or more back-end languages used by the team (NodeJS, GoLang) or equivalent experience in another language and a willingness to learn and get up to speed quickly.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills. Ability to say No 
• Experience with data storage technologies, both relational and NoSQL
• Experience with event-based architecture and with related technologies like kafka, SNS, SQS etc. 
• Experience with cloud platforms - Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform. 
• Strong experience with working in an Agile environment
• Ability to work in a fast paced and constantly changing environment 

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

Pursuant to the various pay transparency laws/acts, the base salary range is $140,000 to $170,000 plus opportunities for benefits (e.g., medical, dental), equity and discretionary bonuses. Compensation is dependent on geography and may vary.