Senior Backend Engineer Medmen
Culver City, CA

Job Description

Our Story

We started MedMen with a simple vision; cannabis as a consumer product. It is a simple idea with profound consequences for how marijuana is cultivated, produced and marketed. Quality standards matter, best practices matter, brand reputation matters. Today, MedMen is the most dominant cannabis enterprise in the emerging legal marijuana industry.

Job Summary

MedMen's Engineering team is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with a background in building enterprise grade applications. You'll work on the next generation of MedMen's retail technology products including our new customer loyalty and cannabis delivery programs. The ideal candidate will have proven development experience on the backend of a large enterprise or consumer-facing application. A successful candidate will also be familiar with modern cloud-native application architectures and constantly seeks opportunities to improve and optimize application performance and architecture.

Job Functions

* Contributes to the architecture and development of backend APIs and services
* Takes ownership of features with significant complexity
* Contributes to the requirements gathering process
* Works closely with various business partners and stakeholders
* Mentors and collaborates with individuals across the team

Basic Qualifications

* At least 4 years of experience delivering software solutions
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or applicable experience
* Experience building and managing high-traffic modern APIs
* Skills building applications in .NET Core/C# or Express/Node
* Experience architecting cloud-native applications in Azure or AWS
* Experience with data modeling tools and techniques
* Experience working with Agile project management methodologies such as SCRUM
* Knowledge of software engineering practices such as version control, branching, code reviews, testing, and continuous integration and deployment

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with serverless technologies such as Azure Functions or AWS Lambda
* Experience with micro-services application architecture
* Skills building APIs using GraphQL as well as managing high-traffic modern APIs
* Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes containerization technologies
* Knowledgable across caching and search technologies such as Redis and Azure Search
* Experience with the management of cloud infrastructure using technologies such as Terraform, ARM, or Ansible
* Experience with event streaming technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, or Event Grid
* Ability to function highly independently and juggle competing priorities
* Excellent verbal and written communication tailored to appropriate audiences

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Working Conditions

This job operates in a professional corporate setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.)

(Note: The Company complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), and all applicable state and local fair employment practices laws, and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. Consistent with this commitment, the Company will provide a reasonable accommodation to disabled applicants and employees if the reasonable accommodation would allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.)

Travel

May require occasional travel, up to 10%.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

There is no visa or H1-B sponsorship.

MedMen Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

Individuals seeking employment at MedMen are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws.