Staff Engineer, Backend

recharge Remote Full-time 2022-07-27

Who we are

Recharge is the leader in powering physical subscriptions, making it one of the most important ecommerce engines. Recharge powers over 50M subscriptions worldwide and has processed more than 10B in transactions. More than 15K brands such as Verve Coffee Roasters, Bokksu, Who Gives A Crap, Geologie, Bite Toothpaste Bits and The Sill rely on Recharge daily to grow their businesses and delight their customers.

Recharge’s mission is to enable brands and merchants to form strong, lasting relationships with their customers through recurring purchases. As merchants seek ways to drive more direct sales and distribution through their channels and move away from a reliance on traditional online marketing strategies, Recharge has made it possible to grow businesses with seamless, recurring customer transactions.

Bootstrapped until 2020, Recharge is valued at over 2.1B dollars and is a double unicorn with a total raise of 277M dollars. Join us as we work with our merchants to define the future of ecommerce.

Overview

The Storefront and Customer Portal team at Recharge is looking for a Staff Engineer to help take us to the next level. Our team is responsible for how merchants present themselves and their products to customers. We strive to offer fast, simple tools that meet merchants’ needs while also allowing for advanced customization when needed.

In this role, you will work with a team of engineers to build, maintain, and improve these tools. As staff level engineer you will be the technical lead for the team, touch all parts of the stack, and make critical design decisions. In this role you'll move fast, research, document, and think through problems to design and develop features for our customers. 

Our stack includes: Python, Flask, Ruby, Jinja, ES6, Vue.js, Redis, Docker, GCP, Ansible, Memcached, Nginx

What you’ll do

  • Live by and champion our values: #day-one, #ownership, #empathy, #humility.

  • Collaborate with design, product and engineering teams to build new features at scale.

  • Understand roadmap priorities and write code focused on scalability, testability, supportability and maintainability.

  • Champion good habits (development techniques, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and agile habits) within your team.

  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

  • Debug production issues across multiple levels of the stack.

  • Find and address performance issues throughout the application.

  • Perform thorough code reviews and troubleshoot complex issues.

  • Building new services that scale; deploy code daily.

What you'll bring

  • Typically around 10+ years of relevant development experience in fast paced environments

  • A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems

  • Self driven; pragmatic; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes

  • Ability to work remote-first in a high growth company

  • Expert knowledge of Python

  • Experience with Javascript, TypeScript or React

  • Experience leading a technical team as a Manager or hands-on Technical Lead

  • Experience with Cloud Platforms such as GCP or AWS

  • Experience with Docker, auto-scaling, pub-sub architectures, serverless environments

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Recharge Payments is an equal opportunity employer. In addition to EEO being the law, it is a policy that is fully consistent with our principles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy or age. Recharge Payments prohibits any form of workplace harassment. 

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