Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Dutchie as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to our leading e-commerce platform in the cannabis industry. This senior role requires extensive experience in backend and frontend technologies, including Ruby/Rails, Node.js, and React. You will solve complex problems, mentor junior engineers, and guide the team's technical roadmap. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of scalable data models and distributed systems, along with strong communication and problem-solving skills. Dutchie offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of backend server languages, including Ruby/Rails and Node.js, and general software best practices
• Experience in front-end best practices within React, knowing how to match designs to build beautiful UI/UX flows
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and working in distributed systems
• Experience designing and extending scalable data models and the data stores they depend on
• Take pride in the code you write - it's 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 in finding 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
• Want to work in a high-quality agile environment - we move quickly and ship code often
• Experience with testing and monitoring frameworks
• 10+ years of related experience

Responsibilities

• Solve the most complex problems generally encountered by teams with little oversight
• Proactively identify complex issues to be solved along with solutions for solving them
• Be a tremendous asset during on-call and active on open incidents within your charter; be able to debug, mitigate, and resolve them
• Be a technical leader in your team, providing mentoring and architectural guidance
• Work on problems across the Charter and proactively source work or partner with Charter leaders to run technical projects
• Teach the team how to build high-quality, reliable, performant, and scalable solutions and teach others how to use tools (like DataDog, Launch Darkly, etc.)
• Work directly with squad captains to plan their team’s roadmap, including surfacing technical items

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale enterprise systems
• Experience tuning, profiling, and digging deep into MongoDB
• Experience in e-commerce applications

Benefits

• Full medical benefits including dental and vision plans to ensure you always have the best care
• Equity packages in the form of stock options to all employees
• Technology (hardware, software, reading materials, etc..) allowance
• Flexible vacation and sick days