Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Who we are
In a world where acquisition costs are skyrocketing, funding is scarce, and ecommerce merchants are forced to do more with less, the most innovative DTC brands understand that subscription strategy is business strategy.
Recharge is simplifying retention and growth for innovative ecommerce brands. As the #1 subscription platform, Recharge is dedicated to empowering brands to easily set up and manage subscriptions, create dynamic experiences at every customer touchpoint, and continuously evaluate business performance. Powering everything from no-code customer portals, personalized offers, and dynamic bundles, Recharge helps merchants seamlessly manage, grow, and delight their subscribers while reducing operating costs and churn. Today, Recharge powers more than 20,000 merchants serving 100 million subscribers, including brands such as Blueland, Hello Bello, LOLA, Chamberlain Coffee, and Bobbie—Recharge doesn’t just help you sell products, we help build buyer routines that last.
Recharge is recognized on the Technology Fast 500, awarded by Deloitte, (3rd consecutive year) and is Great Place to Work Certified.
Role Overview
The Storefront Team at Recharge is responsible for storefront widgets and backend services. These inject Recharge features; Subscriptions, Bundles, and Loyalty benefits into our merchant’s checkout experience. They handle 2.5M+ sessions per day and are some of our highest scale components in our platform. Checkout performance is critical to driving merchant revenue. As a result our widgets require high performance and stability.
In addition to the front-end widgets, the team is also responsible for supporting back-end services consisting of SQL/document databases, a CDN, event-driven messaging systems and REST APIs.
Our Tech Stack: Python, Fastapi, Flask, Vue.js. React, Remix, GCP, SaaS, MySQL/NoSQL, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, SignalFx, Sentry
Who you are
We recognize that there are a variety of personalities and work styles. Here are some facets of people who enjoy working at Recharge engineering:
You love remote work, but not working alone. You love not commuting to work, but you also love collaborating to clarify, confirm, theorize, figure out, and decide on solutions to problems
You love tackling challenges on different fronts like code, infrastructure, documentation, and evangelizing new libraries and services to stakeholders
You love the fast-paced nature of the eCommerce world
You love rapid iterative design, testing, and development while gaining context and understanding along the way. You can recognize when you know enough to take the next useful step to deliver value.
You are good at breaking up work into near, mid, and long-term phases so you can deliver value all along the way as you work toward a clear overall direction.
You are good with working around existing systems and developing creative solutions to new and difficult problems.
Execution: You want to get things done. You’re energized by getting product in front of customers, and prefer an iterative approach with regular deliveries to your stakeholders versus all-at-once major releases. You hold yourself accountable for shipping regularly. You understand customer feedback is key in building the right thing and are flexible to handle changes in direction.
Engineering excellence: You have experience in a variety of contexts, working with frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data. You’re confident reviewing PRs, discussing optimization strategies, and getting into the details as needed to make sure a high-quality product goes out the door.
Communication: You are a sound communicator across multiple mediums, including in-person, video, chat, and written documentation. You understand that being a senior level engineer is to be engaged in discussions, coach your fellow teammates, and effectively communicate technical designs and implementations.
Pragmatic: You productively work with your leadership, your product counterparts, and your team to deal with the realities on the ground on a day-to-day basis. You know plans change and markets change, and you believe you have what it takes to respond effectively to them.
Kindness and respect: You believe that there’s a right way to be part of the team, and it comes from having respect for yourself, your team, your leaders, and your stakeholders. You engage in meaningful exchanges, valuing feedback and diverse perspectives.
Bonus Experience:
Experience in e-commerce
Experience building within Shopify’s ecosystem
What you’ll do
Live by and champions all of our core values (#accountability, #collaboration, #iteration, and #details)
Build, maintain, and debug high-impact, high-performance, high-scale products enabling our merchants storefront experiences.
Perform thorough code reviews and provide useful constructive feedback.
Embrace rapid iterative design, testing, and development to gain context and understanding along the way informing the next useful step in delivering value
Develop proof of concepts and incremental features within the merchant experience ecosystem, while ensuring contributions meet Recharge design and code standards
Investigate, analyze, and evangelize programming methodologies
Champion good habits (development techniques, security, and tech debt balance) amongst your peers while advocating for improved engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Collaborate with product and engineering management to inform roadmap timeline and identify approaches to release product features incrementally
Participate in all phases of the Product Development Lifecycle with product and engineering management to inform technical viability of product and engineering initiatives for key stakeholders
Contribute to cultivating a positive team environment
Demonstrate a willingness to lean in as needed when duty calls
What you’ll bring
5+ years of relevant development experience in fast-paced environments
Willingness to learn and experiment to reach a desired outcome
A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems
Experience building, launching, and supporting new product features
Self-driven; pragmatic; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes
Ability to demonstrate high self-sufficiency to take on and complete projects promptly
Ability to work remote-first in a high-growth company
We need our engineers to be versatile, display ownership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward
Exceptional analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
Willingness to develop, maintain, and debug product features throughout the stack
Demonstrable expertise with JavaScript, Python, and Cloud Platforms such as GCP or AWS
Experience / Education / Qualifications
5+ years of relevant backend development experience across back-end such as Python, Google services like Cloud Functions, MySQL, Redis.
Familiarity with micro-service architecture
2+ years of experience with a major modern Web UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, Vue)
Demonstrable cloud computing experience
Prior e-commerce experience preferred
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or other STEM-related field or equivalent work experience
All that said, we know people have varied backgrounds. If you don't meet 100% of the requirements, but you know you can do the job, we believe in you! We'd love for you to apply anyway, and tell us why you'd be a great addition to the team.
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Recharge Payments is an equal opportunity employer. In addition to EEO being the law, it is a policy that is fully consistent with our principles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy or age. Recharge Payments prohibits any form of workplace harassment.
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