Software Engineer (Backend) - Storefront

Role Overview

The Storefront Team at Recharge is responsible for storefront widgets and backend services. These inject Recharge features; Subscriptions Bundles and Loyalty benefits into our merchant’s checkout experience. They handle 2.5M+ sessions per day and are some of our highest scale components in our platform. Checkout performance is critical to driving merchant revenue. As a result our widgets require high performance and stability.

In addition to the front-end widgets the team is also responsible for supporting back-end services consisting of SQL/document databases a CDN event-driven messaging systems and REST APIs.

Our Tech Stack: Python Fastapi Flask Vue.js. React Remix GCP SaaS MySQL/NoSQL Terraform Docker Kubernetes Splunk SignalFx Sentry

Who you are

We recognize that there are a variety of personalities and work styles. Here are some facets of people who enjoy working at Recharge engineering:

• You love remote work but not working alone. You love not commuting to work but you also love collaborating to clarify confirm theorize figure out and decide on solutions to problems

• You love tackling challenges on different fronts like code infrastructure documentation and evangelizing new libraries and services to stakeholders

• You love the fast-paced nature of the eCommerce world

• You love rapid iterative design testing and development while gaining context and understanding along the way. You can recognize when you know enough to take the next useful step to deliver value.

• You are good at breaking up work into near mid and long-term phases so you can deliver value all along the way as you work toward a clear overall direction.

• You are good with working around existing systems and developing creative solutions to new and difficult problems.

Execution: You want to get things done. You’re energized by getting product in front of customers and prefer an iterative approach with regular deliveries to your stakeholders versus all-at-once major releases. You hold yourself accountable for shipping regularly. You understand customer feedback is key in building the right thing and are flexible to handle changes in direction.

Engineering excellence: You have experience in a variety of contexts working with frontend backend infrastructure and data. You’re confident reviewing PRs discussing optimization strategies and getting into the details as needed to make sure a high-quality product goes out the door.

Communication: You are a sound communicator across multiple mediums including in-person video chat and written documentation.

Pragmatic: You productively work with your leadership your product counterparts and your team to deal with the realities on the ground on a day-to-day basis. You know plans change and markets change and you believe you have what it takes to respond effectively to them.

Kindness and respect: You believe that there’s a right way to be part of the team and it comes from having respect for yourself your team your leaders and your stakeholders. You engage in meaningful exchanges valuing feedback and diverse perspectives.

What you’ll do

• Live by and champions all of our core values (#accountability #collaboration #iteration and #details)

• Build maintain and debug high-impact high-performance high-scale products enabling our merchants storefront experiences.

• Perform thorough code reviews and provide useful constructive feedback.

• Embrace rapid iterative design testing and development to gain context and understanding along the way informing the next useful step in delivering value

• Develop proof of concepts and incremental features within the merchant experience ecosystem while ensuring contributions meet Recharge design and code standards

• Investigate analyze and evangelize programming methodologies

• Champion good habits (development techniques security and tech debt balance) amongst your peers while advocating for improved engineering standards tooling and processes

• Collaborate with product and engineering management to inform roadmap timeline and identify approaches to release product features incrementally

• Participate in all phases of the Product Development Lifecycle with product and engineering management to inform technical viability of product and engineering initiatives for key stakeholders

• Contribute to cultivating a positive team environment

• Demonstrate a willingness to lean in as needed when duty calls

What you’ll bring

• Willingness to learn and experiment to reach a desired outcome

• A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems

• Experience building launching and supporting new product features

• Self-driven; pragmatic; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes

• Ability to demonstrate high self-sufficiency to take on and complete projects promptly

• Ability to work remote-first in a high-growth company

• We need our engineers to be versatile display ownership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward

• Exceptional analytical communication and interpersonal skills

• Willingness to develop maintain and debug product features throughout the stack

• Demonstrable expertise with JavaScript Python and Cloud Platforms such as GCP or AWS

Experience / Education / Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant backend development experience across back-end such as Python Google services like Cloud Functions MySQL Redis.

• Familiarity with micro-service architecture

• 1+ years of experience with a major modern Web UI framework (e.g. ReactJS Vue)

• Demonstrable cloud computing experience

• Prior e-commerce experience preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other STEM-related field or equivalent work experience

Bonus Experience:

• Experience in e-commerce

• Experience building within Shopify’s ecosystem

All that said we know people have varied backgrounds. If you don't meet 100% of the requirements but you know you can do the job we believe in you! We'd love for you to apply anyway and tell us why you'd be a great addition to the team.