Sr. Backend Software Engineer (Checkout)

As the Sr. Backend Software Engineer, you will report to the Software Engineering Manager and continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve the most critical technical problems.

You Will

• Champion code quality, reusability, scalability, and security

• Collaborate with a team of engineers, architects, product managers, and designers to deliver elegant, resilient, and solid products

• Ownership over your code and remove any ambiguity during implementation by collaborating with their team

• Conduct design and code reviews

• Enjoy learning new processes, tools, and technologies.

• Care about who you work with and how work is done. We hire carefully, and the entire team is takes part in evaluating potential hires

• Relate to our core values (see below) and would like to contribute to a positive working environment and culture

Required Experience & Technical Skills

• 8 years as a Software Engineer with a passion for backend software development

• Demonstrated track record of designing, launching and maintaining production back end systems

• Deep understanding and experience in debugging PostgreSQL query performance

• Demonstrated experience optimizing performance of backend Node.js services running in containerized environment

• Ownership mindset over systems through dashboard creation, improvement and proactive monitoring

• Experience with Node.js/Typescript or similar asynchronous tech stack

• Strong data modeling experience for both operational and analytical workloads, especially with an eye towards efficient query patterns

• Experience with Microservices and Event Driven Architecture using AWS, Serverless, Lambda or Docker and Kubernetes

• A proponent of unit, integration, and performance testing

Core Values

• Be Humble: You're smart yet always interested in learning from others.

• Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct, and transparent way.

• Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.

• Learn More: Through blog posts, newsletters, podcasts, video tutorials, and meetups, you regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.

• Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and return kindness to those you work with.

Perks

• Competitive salary.

• Competitive annual bonus targets.

• 401k with dollar for dollar match, up to 6% of eligible earnings (base, bonus).  Plus additional company contribution.

• RSU grants (Long Term Incentives) for approved roles.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance.

• 17 paid holidays per year, including 3 floating holidays.

• Annual Paid Time Off (PTO), with separate sick days

• 12 weeks paid Parental Leave

• Caregiver Leave

• Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance Plan

• Flexible workplace accommodations.

• Free gym membership for those in our Irvine, CA WeWork office.

• We celebrate our wins with opportunities to attend Lakers, Knicks, Anaheim Ducks, Anaheim Angels and NY Rangers games.

• Opportunities to attend concerts, festivals and other live entertainment events in recognition of delivering great work.

• Attend AWS Re:Invent in person (Las Vegas) or virtually each year.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Attend a tech or marketing conference of your choice each year.

• A MacBook Pro and accompanying hardware to do great work.

• A modern productivity toolset to get work done: Slack, Miro, Loom, Lucid, Google Docs, Atlassian and more.

• Generous discounts on SkinMedica skin care products.

• Discounted aesthetic treatment days multiple times a year.

• $600 worth of Alle benefits each year to use towards aesthetic treatments and products.

• Eligible for donation matching to over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations.