Backcountry is searching for a Principal Software Engineer to drive the evolution of their outdoor retail ecommerce platform, aiming to scale, modernize, and innovate while ensuring a fast, seamless, and reliable customer experience.
Requirements
- Expertise with Java Spring Framework Spring Boot and NodeJs
- Strong front end experience with HTML CSS JavaScript and React
- Deep expertise in software architecture distributed systems and design patterns
- Proficiency in at least one core backend language such as Java Python or C Sharp
- Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Experience with NoSQL or document oriented databases
- Hands on skill with Docker Kubernetes CI CD pipelines
Responsibilities
- Lead end to end software delivery including architecture design hands on development testing deployment documentation and production support for our ecommerce platform.
- Serve as a technical mentor and coach for engineers across levels supporting code reviews technical decisions and skill development.
- Partner with Product Design and Engineering leadership to deliver scalable user focused features that elevate business value.
- Champion modern engineering practices including clean architecture unit testing automation performance optimization and observability.
- Drive key initiatives as a technical leader occasionally guiding a small team of engineers from concept to delivery.
- Influence architectural direction and propose improvements that enhance system performance scalability reliability and maintainability.
- Produce high quality documentation including TRDs diagrams technical instructions and onboarding materials.
Other
- 10 plus years of professional software development experience with strong ecommerce background
- Proven history of leading engineering teams and delivering production grade software
- Experience with AWS or GCP and cloud first architecture
- Excellent communication leadership and cross functional collaboration skills
- Strong problem solving talent and the ability to think creatively and strategically
