Staff Backend Software Engineer

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

You Will

• Champion code quality, reusability, scalability security, and strategic software architecture decisions

• Utilize proven design patterns and your experience building large-scale public-facing software through code reviews and mentorship.

• Collaborate with software architects, product managers, and project managers to take small ideas or concepts and turn them into high-fidelity technical game plans to achieve platform, product, and business goals.

• We care about who you work with and how work is done. We hire carefully, and the entire team is allowed to evaluate 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

• At least 10 years as a Software Engineer and 6 years experience as a technical lead and/or hands-on architect

• Adept at drafting, validating, and implementing software systems architecture using modern development and deployment technologies and can speak thoroughly to their tradeoffs

• Strong familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and design patterns

• Strong experience using NodeJS and JavaScript (TypeScript) using Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka, SQS/SNS), Lambda, Docker, and Kubernetes on AWS

• Proficient with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB and understand when to use relational and non-relational databases.

• A proponent of code testing (TDD, unit, integration, system, load, and functional tests)

• Experience working with DevOps Engineers using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD Pipelines.

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