Senior Software Engineer, Back End

Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business, enabling millions of Favors. Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Back End to take on a highly influential, individual contributor role within our Promotions and Engagement squad. You will create the tools and applications necessary to connect customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams and work closely with product and operations teams to understand customer needs, build simple solutions to complex problems, and deliver delightful experiences to all users.

What You'll Do

• Assist in research and fact finding to develop or modify applications.
• Fix bugs and perform updates to the code base while working closely with team members across product, design, and engineering.
• Participate in the planning and execution of development projects.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and help organize squad members around project goals.
• Partner with cross-functional technology teams to integrate solutions.
• Responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of web applications, back-end services, databases, and data warehouse.

Skills You Have

• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
• Knowledge of coding patterns and their applicable uses to write performant, testable code.
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Experience developing solutions within a system architecture such as SOA, Event-driven, or n-tier.
• Ability to design and build technical solutions without direct oversight.
• Ability to read through code and identify areas that may lead to bugs.
• Ability to identify and communicate potential issues early and significantly contribute to team discussions.
• Ability to write tests that cover most common use cases and code paths and use design patterns to design efficient, maintainable, and scalable features.
• Understanding of the performance impact of queries and ability to generate complex data structures.
• Ability to make updates to existing APIs by adding endpoints, changing responses, and handling errors following HTTP best practices according to RFC-7231.
• Experience or familiarity with one or more of PHP, Scala, Kotlin, Java, MySQL, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, JUnit, Jenkins.

Who You Are

• Appreciation of simple design and a love to write clean, well-tested code - test first or TDD approaches are a plus.
• Experience in a high-growth startup a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical (UX, design, product management and across engineering teams) and non-technical stakeholders and work with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.

Life at Favor

Where you'll work: This role can be hybrid or remote, depending on the team member’s location in Texas. If you live in Austin, Texas, we ask that you work from home roughly three days per week and work at our HQ for the remaining work days. If you live in a different city in Texas, you will primarily work from home, with the opportunity to travel to Austin for company-wide events. No matter where you work best, we foster an inclusive and flexible environment to support our workforce.

Benefits: We offer premium health, vision, dental, and life insurance, alongside 401(k) options. We go beyond the basics, while also throwing in Favor delivery fee credit and H-E-B discounts!

Paid time off (PTO): We offer unlimited PTO for salaried employees (that’s actually unlimited) and ample vacation time to all team members.

Learning and development: We encourage personal growth and education through Intern(al)ships and Learning Labs taught by Favor team members and external facilitators.

Community: Whether you’re an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there’s a group for you here. We foster community through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), company-wide events, happy hours, and regular connection opportunities.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion: At Favor, we believe that to be the best delivery app in Texas, we need to represent all Texans. We are committed to growing a team with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and we are an equal opportunity employer. We review all resumes and qualifications with an open mind and encourage you to apply if this role interests you!

In addition, as a candidate, if you require any accommodations throughout the recruitment process, simply let your recruiter know! Our talent acquisition team will work with you directly to ensure a smooth and delightful process.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.