Remote Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Discogs, a music database company. The role involves building an inventory management system using modern technologies and is a remote position open to candidates in specific states with a salary range of $125,000 - $132,000 yearly.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing software solutions
• Building, operating, troubleshooting and optimizing production systems under load
• Delivered software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks
• Interface with relational databases using SQL
• Using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC
• Familiarity with Build systems, DevOps and CI/CD procedures
• Familiarity with cloud services
• Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members
• Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance
• Experience completing a significant refactor of an existing software project
• Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers
• Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers
• Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required
• Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university in math computer science related field, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and deploy server-side and client-side software in sprint cycles
• Observe, debug and optimize production systems with thousands of concurrent users
• Research new frontiers, prototype implementations and share knowledge
• Communicate openly and collaborate frequently with Product and Engineering teams to quickly deliver high quality products that maximize value to the Discogs ecosystem
• Take responsibility over large, complex features from concept to design to delivery with no guidance
• Maintain, rebuild and adapt legacy codebases alongside modernizing our stack
• Assists team with estimation and prioritization of development efforts
• Coaches and mentors other engineers by providing recommendations, technical oversight, code reviews and feedback

Preferred Qualifications

• ECommerce experience
• Completed large-scale systems migrations
• Use of containerization and orchestration technologies, Docker and Kubernetes
• FastAPI, Adriane, React, GraphQL, Kafka, React Native, Flask, Gherkin, Playwright
• AWS, DataDog, Sentry, Cloudflare
• Serverless functions, distributed/edge systems and event driven architectures
• ADA / WCAG Compliance

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
• 401(k) with employer match
• 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
• 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Annual professional and personal development allowance
• Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
• Flexible work location opportunities
• Employer matching toward charitable contributions