Senior Software Engineer, Purchase

Job Description

Minted is looking for a full-stack software engineer to be a part of our Purchase team. As a member of this team, you will be building products that will help independent designers start, scale, and grow their business on Minted.com . You will be building a world-class crowdsourcing platform that enables creatives from around the world to grow professionally, educate the community, and enables them to learn from each other while participating in crowdsourced design challenges hosted by Minted. As a senior member of the Purchase Team, you will serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects. You have a user-focused mindset and a strong sense of stewardship toward products you’ve helped build. You will create elegant object-oriented designs, both for module and service level interactions to drive the development of our e-commerce functionality and provide technical leadership to junior engineers on the team. You will work on a customized product, increasing brand touch-points, and will have a great impact on the organization and the marketplace. When it is safe to resume in person work, we'd like this person to work from our Kansas City, MO office location (some work from home days are ok). #LI-JR1

You Will:

• Design and develop a beautiful, responsive, and fun-filled world-class web experience
• Own high impact and high visibility engineering projects end to end
• Build systems and services that have an immediate impact on our artist community and customers
• Build and maintain backend architecture for our high-traffic e-commerce platform that is scalable, extensible, and efficient in usage of system resources (memory, disk, I/O, etc)
• Collaborate with product development, user experience, production, and artist relations teams to deliver projects with measurable business results
• Ensure a high-quality codebase with design and code review as well as automated test coverage
• Advance your technical knowledge and skill set with talks, training sessions, and 1:1 mentorship of junior engineers

You Are:

• Well versed in web technologies and industry best practices
• Able to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner
• Able to work remotely and communicate efficiently with members of your team
• Systematic and meticulous while addressing issues in a scalable way, as well as in documenting your work
• Committed to continuous improvements
• Enthusiastic about doing the right thing to ensure customer satisfaction

You Have:

• 3+ years professional experience as a software developer
• Technical design skills with an emphasis on distributed or cloud-based design and scaling to deal with resource contention and scalability issues
• Experience designing complex software systems and accurately estimating scope and risks
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python, Java, PHP, and Javascript
• Experience with SQL, database modeling, and ORMs

Bonus Points:

• Experienced with Backbone.js, React.js, HTML, CSS
• Experience with event-driven systems using technology such as Kafka, Pulsar, or Amazon AWS SNS/SQS
• Experienced with deployment/configuration such as Packer, Docker, Ansible, or Puppet
• Experienced with Amazon Web Services, specifically DynamoDB, SQS, S3, SNS, EC2, CloudFormation, ELB, VLC, and ASG

The Company Minted is a design marketplace, sourcing creative content from independent artists around the globe and selling the best designs to the world in the form of art, home decor, and stationery. Founded in 2007 by Mariam Naficy on the principles of transparency and putting design first, we are early pioneers of crowdsourcing having launched our first design challenge in April 2008 and have held monthly art and design challenges ever since. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to learn more. Our corporate headquarters is located near the waterfront in downtown San Francisco, with additional offices in Oakland and Kansas City and we're backed by Benchmark Capital, IDG Ventures SF, Menlo Ventures, Primera (angel investors include Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp). We're a team of smart, ambitious, creative, and passionate people who come from all walks of life. Might you be one of us? Minted is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and will consider all qualified applicants for employment in accordance with all state, local, and federal laws. Minted participates in the E-verify program. Minted's Job Applicant Privacy Policy . Apply for this job