Sr. Software Engineer (Backend), Subscriptions

Who We Are

Recharge is the leader in powering the best commerce companies on the internet in subscriptions memberships workflows and optimization products. Recharge powers over 50M subscriptions worldwide and has processed more than 10B in transactions. More than 15K brands such as Verve Coffee Roasters Bokksu Who Gives A Crap and Bite Toothpaste Bits rely on Recharge daily to grow their businesses and delight their customers.

Role Overview

The Subscriptions Team at Recharge is responsible for several services core to our business as well as building pivotal core features at Recharge for our merchants and their customers. They work to build maintain and improve several services including Subscriptions Orders Discounts Shipping Taxes and a key integration with Shopify.

We're looking for engineers who like to collaborate closely with others and relentlessly seek ways to improve our code base processes and themselves.

Our Tech Stack: Python Flask VueJs Kubernetes GCP Elasticsearch Redis Terraform OpenTelemetry Docker Splunk SignalFxCloudSQL/MySQL

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 exploring ideas with rapid prototyping and prioritizing the ones that have an immediate business impact

• 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 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 love rapid iterative design 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

What you’ll do

• Build high-impact high-performance high-scale products for development teams to succeed in the delivery of features

• Understand roadmap priorities and write frontend and/or backend code focused on scalability testability supportability and maintainability

• With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities deadlines and deliverables

• Debug production issues across stack.

• Perform thorough code reviews and provide useful constructive feedback.

• Contribute to cultivating a positive team environment

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

What you’ll bring

• A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems

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

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

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

• 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

• Experience with Python Serverless Kubernetes and Cloud Platforms such as GCP or AWS HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript

• Demonstrable expertise with HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript

Experience / Education / Qualifications

• Typically 5+ years of relevant full stack development experience across back-end such as Python Nodejs and front-end experience including JavaScript and/or TypeScript HTML CSS or equivalent.

• Familiarity with micro-service architecture

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

• Demonstrable cloud computing experience

• Prior e-commerce experience preferred

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.