The company is looking to solve the problem of building foundational patterns and systems for Federated GraphQL API design, data orchestration, and application architecture.
Requirements
- 3+ years of deep Federated GraphQL experience
- Hands-on experience delivering software within high-growth environments at scale
- Experienced in designing and building large-scale, cloud-based systems across various projects
- Successful background in designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance, reliability, performance, and security
- Experience operating distributed services at scale, including familiarity with observability tools, logging techniques, troubleshooting, and incident response
- Expertise with a modern programming language (such as TypeScript, Rust, Java, or others)
- Experience with one or more common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: GraphQL, Node.js, React, Java microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, etc.
Responsibilities
- Drive high-impact architectural solutions and hands-on development, including inception, design, execution, and delivery following good design and coding practices
- Define and ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs)
- Architect and write code to implement high-quality, scalable, future-proof platform that will have effective system boundaries and will support long-term vision & strategy
- Participate in technical debates within and across teams to help come to durable documented conclusions
- Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting
- Identify risks and gaps in technical approaches and propose solutions to meet the team’s technical vision
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and peer engineering teams to define project requirements and execution plans
Other
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience
- eComm domain expertise is a bonus
- Mastery in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without given authority
- Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving solutions forward and ability to influence results
- Experience leading/supervising and/or mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and establishing best engineering practices
- Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees
- 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
- Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services
- Tuition Reimbursement
