Senior Software Engineer
Chicago, IL

Job Description

ABOUT US:

We connect customers to the brands they love by way of a thriving marketplace and a members-only service that provides benefits across 140+ of the best online stores. Our members save time and money with benefits including free 2-day shipping, easy 2-click checkout, and free returns all while we help them stay up on the latest trends that appeal.

For merchants, we're driving eCommerce business, producing insights with a growing data analytics practice to boot. With a powerful two-sided network and a robust data platform, we're creating an eCommerce win-win, helping retailers compete. The landscape of retail is changing and we're here to empower retailers to take their place in that exciting evolution.

We have people in offices around the world: Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Conshohocken, PA (Philly area), New York, San Mateo and Krakow, Poland. We hustle to get things done, creating wins for customers, merchants and each other.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Senior Software Engineer at ShopRunner, you'll be helping design and develop our systems, and preparing them to scale to the demands of millions of users. This might include ingesting data from our merchant partners, helping the data science team bring their data models to production, or modifying our core services and applications in our quest to help shoppers and retailers connect in new ways. Our key systems run in Typescript/React, Kotlin/Spring Boot, and Python Flask. This role will work on a team based in Chicago but will also dedicate part of its time to provide support to a team of engineers in Krakow, Poland during Chicago business hours. If you are Polish speaking this could be a great opportunity for you!

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON:

* Scaling our service architecture and embracing approaches such as 12 factor, Microservices, and well formed APIs
* Evolving our data pipelines to enable real-time event handling, smarter personalization, and more nimble applications
* Designing and developing new application platforms
* Reviewing, recommending and implementing new technologies

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

* 6+ years' experience writing production code for web applications. We love Polyglots who know several other languages and like the right tool for the job
* Experience with object-oriented programming languages, such as Java/Groovy/Kotlin and/or front end languages and frameworks such as React, Javascript, Typescript, Webpack.
* Experience working with web frameworks such as Spring, Django/Bottle/Flask.
* Experience optimizing larger applications to increase speed, scalability, and extensibility.
* Comfort with database concepts and experience writing SQL in a relational database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
* Comfort with key programming concepts like memory management, optimization techniques, API design, relational mapping frameworks, and distributed applications
* Self-starter who can move projects forward by filling in the gaps on agile teams, from leading a design session to doing some test automation, to mentoring a teammate struggling with a new technology
* Nice to haves: Experience working in AWS, Docker, Polish speaking.

We want you to bring your whole human self to work every day. We accept you for who you are and consider everybody on an equal opportunity basis without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.