Backend Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Minted's growing engineering team as a Backend Senior Software Engineer and contribute to building products that empower independent artists. You will design, implement, and own scalable services, optimize product launch processes, lead data remodeling efforts, and ensure adherence to continuous delivery practices. This role requires strong programming skills in Python and JavaScript, experience with AWS, and a passion for high-quality code. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is crucial to deliver projects with measurable business results. Minted offers a strong culture of mentoring, promotion from within, and a competitive compensation package including benefits.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of professional experience as a software developer
• Technical system design expertise with a focus on distributed and cloud-based architectures, scalability, and designing complex software systems with accurate scope and risk estimations
• Strong programming skills in Python and JavaScript
• Understanding of automated ways of testing your software
• Proficiency in SQL, database modeling, and ORMs
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, including EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SQS, and CloudWatch
• Experience working with and understanding both client-side and server-side code
• A passion for writing clean, high-quality, and error-free code
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design systems, implement and own scalable and maintainable services following SOA principles, enabling a transition from monolithic to microservices architecture
• Develop systems and services that optimize and streamline our product launch and artist community processes, integrating with third-party vendors and building robust in-house solutions
• Lead efforts in product data remodeling, syncing, and integration using Product Information Management (PIM) and/or Master Data Management (MDM) systems, ensuring consistent, accurate, and accessible product data across all platforms and teams
• Ensure all systems and pipelines adhere to continuous delivery practices, streamlining deployments and reducing lead times by building robust automated test suites to enhance quality assurance, covering unit, integration, and end-to-end testing for new and existing services
• Advocate for and implement best practices in development, ensuring high-quality code, maintainable workflows, and process efficiency
• Build and maintain backend architecture for our high-traffic e-commerce platform that is scalable, extensible, and efficient in system resource usage (memory, disk, I/O, etc.)
• Collaborate with product development, user experience, production, and artist relations teams to deliver projects with measurable business results
• Champion high code quality through design reviews, code reviews, and rigorous automated testing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced, agile e-commerce environment
• Familiarity with Starlite, Django, and FastAPI frameworks
• Ability to read and refactor PHP code into Python as needed
• Experience with React.js , HTML, CSS
• Experience with Docker, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and containerized environments
• Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform deployment platforms
• Experience managing resource contention and scalability issues in multi-threaded web applications

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Employer Funded Health Savings Account
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employer Paid Wellbeing Apps (e.g. Headspace and Calm)
• Monthly Gym/Wellness Reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Employer Funded Commuter Benefits
• Employee Discount
• Friends and Family Discount
• Annual performance bonus
• Stock options