Senior Lead Engineer, Warehouse Systems

Summary

Join Stitch Fix's Warehouse Technology team as a technical lead, focusing on application enhancements to boost warehouse efficiency, accuracy, and system reliability. You will leverage your expertise in software development and industry best practices to create a blueprint for warehouse functions, from receiving to shipping. Mentorship of junior engineers is also a key responsibility. Collaborate with industrial engineers and operations partners to define strategies for resilient warehouse systems, comprehensive operational visibility, efficient fulfillment, personalized shopping experiences, and seamless returns. This role offers significant impact by combining client-centric warehouse management with process improvements to enhance business efficiency and margins.

Requirements

• You have 5-8 years of software engineering experience
• You drive for resiliency. You take a principled approach to complexity, and can make smart bets on where to invest time and system burden for maximum business impact
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders about complex technical topics
• You’re curious about what’s happening outside your immediate sphere and how you can leverage insights elsewhere inside the domains you own
• You’re happiest as a team player, looking for highest impact across the stack and ready to contribute to team and corporate priorities wherever you find them
• You have extensive experience sizing, building, delivering, and supporting software products in a production environment, preferably in Ruby/Rails and Go
• You have past experience building or integrating against new Warehouse Management Systems
• You bring a comfort with data (SQL, data skepticism and hygiene) to support and co-own decisions

Responsibilities

• Build tight relationships between enthusiastic partners in varied disciplines of industrial, software, and operations research engineering, owning end-to-end hardware to cloud solutions
• Solution at high speed with a small, agile team of coworkers to produce outsized impact on the business
• Showcase your ability to solution in a system with high-uptime requirements
• Have the autonomy to identify and roadmap unaddressed problems in the business and their impact, as well as offer new, improved solutions to existing challenges
• Take a leading role in prioritization and sequencing to drive the best value for our clients and stakeholders
• Apply your understanding of systems design, engineering for resiliency, and thinking in tradeoffs across a multidisciplinary team of hardware, application, and machine learning engineers
• Be exposed to a wide-open field of opportunity for impact with plenty of challenges to make your own

Benefits

• We offer comprehensive compensation packages and inclusive health and wellness benefits
• This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and equity
• The position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
• This position is eligible for new hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance