Software Engineer

Summary

Join Stitch Fix's Inventory and Fulfillment Innovation team as a Software Engineer to revolutionize inventory management and assortment creation. Help build scalable, production-ready systems, collaborating with various teams. This role involves rapid development, transitioning from proof-of-concept to production. You will contribute to Stitch Fix's ambitious goals for the next decade, impacting client experience directly. The position offers a collaborative remote environment and opportunities for professional growth within a supportive team.

Requirements

• You bring 2–5 years of backend engineering experience delivering production services; familiarity with e-commerce, logistics, SaaS, or platform-oriented systems is a plus
• You’re fluent in at least one modern systems language—our core stack is Go and Ruby—and have proven skill with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL), plus a knack for picking up new technologies fast
• You have solid CS foundations (data structures, concurrency, networking) and you are comfortable analyzing performance on tier-1, high-traffic APIs
• You write clean, test-driven code and you leave the codebase clearer, better-documented, and easier to observe than you found it
• You ship with confidence—using CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, canary releases, and swift rollbacks to deploy safely and keep our performance metrics healthy
• You’ve run production services on a major cloud platform—AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar—and are comfortable with modern observability stacks like Datadog
• You have familiarity with event-driven or streaming architectures—Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc
• You enjoy digging through unfamiliar services, logs, and metrics to find and fix root causes fast
• You are a clear communicator and a collaborative teammate: you translate technical trade-offs into business terms, give/receive thoughtful code reviews, and work easily with product and ops
• You exhibit a strong growth mindset: you actively seek feedback, mentor where you can, and share knowledge to raise the whole team’s bar

Responsibilities

• Help build the future of inventory at Stitch Fix, balancing fast experimental development with long-term scalable system design
• Join a team that values mutual trust, learning, and personal growth
• Work in a collaborative remote environment, using tools like GitHub, Slack, and Zoom extensively
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, pairing, and open dialogue to help each other grow
• Gain exposure to high-value business processes and directly contribute to Stitch Fix’s client experience

Benefits

• This role will receive a competitive salary and benefits
• The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with the range below, which includes our three geographic areas
• A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, location, and performance
• This position is eligible for an annual cash award depending on employee and company performance
• In addition, the position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other benefits