Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Discogs as a talented Full Stack Engineer and become a key player in our Shopping squad. You will work on exciting projects, collaborate with innovative minds, and contribute to building cutting-edge solutions. This remote position offers a competitive salary ($125,000 - $132,000) and excellent benefits. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will act as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers, driving our technology vision forward and mentoring other team members. You will be responsible for planning, developing, and deploying software, optimizing production systems, and collaborating with Product and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of software development experience and a strong background in Python and JavaScript.

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
• Thorough understanding of HTTP APIs
• 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
• 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
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• ECommerce experience
• Use of containerization and orchestration technologies, Docker and Kubernetes
• Python, FastAPI, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Flask, Redis, ElasticSearch
• AWS, DataDog, Sentry, Cloudflare
• Microservices, distributed/edge systems and event driven architectures

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