Manager - Software Engineering, Platform

July 31

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Organic E-Commerce • Conscious Business • Editorial Content • Community Outreach

501 - 1000

Description

• Lead and grow a global team of backend developers • Support, mentor, and guide engineers on your team • Level up your team by strategically planning & assigning tasks, challenging them to raise the bar • Lead a cross-functional “pod” to drive end-to-end customer experiences, in partnership with front-end engineers, product management, analytics, and user experience • Work closely with the product team to innovate game-changing ideas for our members • Own the SLOs around APIs for your pod. Work across teams to troubleshoot issues and improve outcomes • Encourage your team to continually improve, by prioritizing working smarter over working harder • Develop REST and JSON API services that enable new customer experiences • Build services that scale horizontally and provide low uniform latency as demand increases, leveraging the right tool for the right job (languages, databases, serverless, distributed streaming, etc.) • Work with Python, PHP, Java, Golang, AWS, and Kafka • Encourage and enforce development best practices, including test-driven development from the get-go, to maintain customer experience and build speed and reliability into the development process • Incorporate meaningful metrics into new services and functionality your team builds • Drive discussions around architecture and design. Decompose existing services into scalable microservices where needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years leading teams • 10+ years developing end-to-end high-traffic responsive consumer sites • Experience in building n-tier customer-facing applications that support millions of transactions per day • Experience working with multiple AWS services, including EKS, Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, etc. • Strong understanding of tradeoffs between architecture choices, implementation patterns, and database technologies • Strong understanding of scaling and performance in a microservice architecture • Experience with observability and monitoring tools like New Relic to maintain SLOs around performance and error rates • Working knowledge of Linux, Relational & NoSQL databases, Serverless

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability) • Competitive salary (DOE) + equity • 401k plan • 9 Observed Holidays • Flexible Paid Time Off • Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences • Ability to work in our beautiful co-working space at WeWork in Playa Vista and other locations • Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount • Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform