Job Description
About the Engineering Org
We are a growing, hands-on, flat organization. Because we are still small, it means everyone is a generalist and allows for our engineers to take on multiple roles and challenges not defined by titles. Regardless of who you are on the engineering team, you will contribute to and have a big impact on the final product from day one. The opportunity for growth and development here is incredible. We have a strong culture of mentoring and promoting from within! We place a lot of emphasis on good engineering practices while retaining the flexibility of allowing each engineering team to have independent agile processes. Diversity is important to us, and we treat each other with respect and empathy.
About the Role
Our custom-designed offerings require high-quality on-demand Manufacturing and Fulfillment, Design Operations and Customer Service Operations to delight our discerning customer base. Our rapid customer growth combined with expansion into new products and categories requires us to scale Fulfillment and Operations while decreasing costs and continuing to increase quality. Challenges include designing Fulfillment systems that can elastically scale to process large volumes of orders during high demand times, implement sophisticated routing logic to ensure low cost and fast delivery and building internal applications to support effective customer service operations.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer that can leverage their deep technical experience to help design and build our fulfillment systems. The ideal candidate will have strong technical and problem-solving skills to help architect and scale our cloud-based fulfillment system to match our growth.
To be successful, you will:
Own high impact and high visibility engineering projects end to end
Take a technical lead role in building complex software systems that are scalable, extensible, and efficient in usage of system resources like memory, CPU, I/O etc, including architectural proposals, code reviews and hands-on coding
Consistently create clean code, efficient and reusable abstractions, and teach best practices to junior engineers
Ensure a high quality codebase with design and code review as well as automated test coverage
Ensure that technical designs and implementations support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, maintainability, and security
Deeply understand our complex systems to derive root causes and propose fundamental changes
Collaborate with product management to define requirements, estimate scope, establish timelines, plan projects, and execute end to end testing
Project management of projects to ensure on-time delivery with measurable business results
Advance your technical knowledge and skill set with talks, training sessions, and 1:1 mentorship of junior engineers
Effectively research and benchmark our technology against other competing systems in the industry
Experience and Skills:
8+ years of professional experience building software in roles of increasing responsibility and technical ability
In-depth understanding of computer science principles including data structures, programming languages, algorithms, runtime performance, operating systems, software design, databases, hardware, and networking
Strong programming skills preferably in Python, PHP, and JavaScript
Experience with Adobe Illustrator or Indesign
Experience with printing, photos, color management, computer graphics or fulfillment technology
Ability to create complex new software and accurately estimate scope and risks
Technical design skills with an emphasis on distributed and/or cloud-based design and scaling
Experience dealing with resource contention and scalability issues in multi-threaded web applications
Ability to juggle competing priorities in a fast-moving dynamic environment
Obsession with writing clean code
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in lieu of
Bonus Points
Professional experience maintaining code on high traffic websites
Experience with React, Redux, Flux, HTML, CSS
Experience with SQL, database modeling, and ORMs
Experience with Amazon Web Services, specifically DynamoDB, SQS, S3, SNS, EC2
Experience working in a fast-paced, agile e-commerce environment
Experience as a Tech Lead
Skills
Python, Javascript, AWS/EC2/ELB/S3/DynamoDB
Compensation
$145K – $165K and higher (DOE)
0.01% – 0.01%
Visa Sponsorship
Available
Best Regards,
Kris
Kris Young
Account Manager
BHO Tech
San Jose, San Francisco CA
Phone: 866 816-1615 x 823
kris@bhotech.com
www.bhotech.com
BHO Tech is a Technology Staffing Firm for the Bay Area and Los Angeles technology market.
BHO Tech has its own job board that lists all our open positions for our Candidates.
BHO Tech works with passive candidates from referrals and our internal database comprised of over 200,000 candidates hand-picked and qualified by our Senior Account Executives and Managers developed over 15+years.
We works with passive candidates that are not actively looking for a job and are happily employed but are open to new opportunities.
We look forward to working with you!
BHO Tech's services has the ability to dramatically enrich the employment relationship for our clients and their employees.
What an amazing concept!
Our mission at BHO Tech is to provide:
* On-time delivery of qualified human capital resources to ensure our clients meet the unpredictable demands of their business
* Unparalleled customer service along with state-of-the-art recruiting services for our clients.
* Establish long-term, mutually beneficial business partnerships with all our clients.
Everything that we do at BHO Tech is based on some simple core values:
* Customer satisfaction is our highest goal - and everything we do should drive it. We believe that success in this area will allow us to take better care of our clients.
* Results are the most important thing, but we must get there ethically and legally.
* Respect for the individual - play nice with others.
* Celebrate team wins - and learn from our mistakes.
* Kaizen= constant improvement…the blend of "kai" meaning "change" and "zen" meaning "for the better".
* Communicate clearly and truthfully.
* Have fun!
This also will include high expectations around our clients and competition.
We believe that every client can and should be able to speak on behalf of BHO Tech to friends, family & colleagues.
We will ask you to represent us proudly.
We have a great opportunity in the marketplace - but, I can’t tell you that is all easy.
We seek to improve what we do and how we do it every day, in every area.
We like a challenge and you’ll be very happy to work with BHO Tech!
We are committed to growth and excellence.
Establishing long term business relationships.