Dutchie is hiring a
Senior Staff Software Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

The Senior Staff Engineer will be a technical leader on the Growth Platform team, responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and evolution of Dutchie's ecommerce platform's technical infrastructure. The role involves leading technical initiatives, overseeing design reviews, prototyping new technologies, enhancing developer tooling, and mentoring other engineers. The ideal candidate has 12+ years of experience in backend server languages, large scale cloud infrastructure, and ecommerce applications.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of backend server languages including Ruby/Rails and Node.js, and general software best practices
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, and working in distributed systems
• Experience with large scale cloud infrastructure
• Experience designing and extending scalable data models and the data stores they depend on
• You take pride in the technical solutions you deliver - they are clean, tested, organized, and pragmatic
• Understand product-led technical approaches. You seek to understand the product goals of the platform and can lead the team on well fitted technical solutions
• Self-starter - you're proactive and can start projects and tasks without constant direction
• Quick learner - you pick up new frameworks and technologies quickly
• Pragmatic in technical choices, you understand how to choose and work within a variety of technical tools
• Positive and effective communication skills, both written and verbal
• You want to work in a high quality agile environment - we move quickly and ship code often
• Experience with testing and monitoring frameworks
• 12+ years related experience

Responsibilities

• Design and build pragmatic, robust, and scalable technical solutions for the Ecommerce product and business goals
• Guide the technical and product quality of not just your own architectural solutions, but the team’s solutions
• Define and shares proposals for standards and best practices across all levels within the organization, from junior team members to senior leadership
• Lead the planning and execution of complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• Reviews code to ensure technical implementations meet functional requirements and technical quality standards
• Proactively diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Level up the team’s technical knowledge and expertise by mentoring other engineers
• Independently plan and estimate work
• Positively contribute to our culture and our processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in front end best practices within React, knowing how to match designs to build beautiful UI/UX flows
• Experience in large scale enterprise systems
• Experience in ecommerce applications

Benefits

• Full medical benefits including dental and vision plans
• Equity packages in the form of stock options
• Technology (hardware, software, reading materials, etc..) allowance
• Flexible vacation and sick days