Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are:

Shoplift, a New York City-based SaaS startup, empowers thousands of e-commerce merchants like Kith, Skullcandy, Havaianas, and more, to acquire customers more efficiently and profitably by optimizing their online storefronts with our intelligent, automated experimentation and personalization platform.

Your Role:

In this lead role, you'll have jurisdiction over whole features. We're looking for someone who is an engineer in every sense of the word; someone who loves to code, who is deeply knowledgeable about systems architecture, fundamental computing principles, and excels at building products from the ground up.

About the role:

• As our user base continues to rapidly grow, you'll be part "city planner" and part firefighter, developing a deep understanding of wide swathes of the product's most crucial components and designing new ways to make them scalable and sustainable
• You'll take things from whiteboard to reality, contemplating and architecting large features with complex requirements
• You'll pick up your own stories and epics as an IC and add to the team's velocity
• You will work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and data scientists to deliver powerful and accessible features

About you

• You love solving big, hairy problems and obsess over them until you find a solution
• You have experience with large, real-time data firehoses
• You love startups and are excited about being part of a fast-growing company
• You're a top performer and like to work with other top performers
• You're a quick learner. You can take a look at something you've never seen before and make sense of it quickly.
• You care about the “why” and want to understand the bigger picture of how the business is helping customers
• You’re thoughtful and resourceful. For you, problem-solving starts with a clear understanding of the context and an open mind to a wide array of potential solutions.
• You pride yourself on getting your hands dirty. Whatever it takes to get the job done
• You have strong attention to detail

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience owning entire products or features
• Extensive experience managing database architecture and db engines
• Experience with C# or Java
• Typescript, JS
• Experience with asynchronous programming patterns
• Experience with Agile development practices, continuous integration and refactoring
• Proficiency in using Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration to ensure consistent environments and seamless deployment processes.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and its deployment patterns in cloud environments.
• Willing to make key strategic decisions, communicate the reasoning behind those decisions, and follow through on driving adoption

Nice to have

• Experience with .NET 5+ runtime
• Experience with Entity Framework Core (with heavy/optimized use of LINQ)
• Experience training ML models
• Experience with advanced statistics
• Experience with the Shopify ecosystem and/or Liquid
• Education: A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field