Staff Software Engineer - Marketplace

Job Description

Help shape the next generation of ecommerce for the next generation of consumer.

Technology @ StockX

Our Technology Team is on a mission to build the next generation e-commerce platform for the next generation customer. We build world-class, innovative experiences and products that give our users access to the world’s most-coveted products and unlock economic opportunity by turning reselling into a business for anyone. Our team uses cutting edge technologies that handle massive scale globally - we’re an internet-native, cloud-native company from day 1. If you’re a curious engineer who loves solving problems, wearing multiple hats, and learning new things, join us!

About the Marketplace Team

Our team owns the backbone of StockX: the global marketplace. Every bid or ask runs through our system, and we provide something no one else in the industry does - a local view to a global marketplace. Our systems run at scale, like 60,000 hits/second scale, and we deal with unique problems that smaller-scale systems never hit. We work with some of the latest technologies, and are currently defining the next generation architecture for our platform. We tackle some of the most difficult challenges you will see as an engineer.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with a team of low-ego, top-level engineers, to build the next-generation scalable, high-throughput platform for the rocketship that is StockX.
• Own our solutions start to finish. You will be working on an engineer-driven team: we define our solutions, we break projects down into bite-sized chunks, we set milestones for ourselves, we document our services for our needs, we build our systems to our designs, we make sure they are tested, we make metrics that give us the insight we need, and yep we support our production operations.
• Research and implement cutting edge technology that can be applied to handle massive scale.
• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative culture where we continuously learn, continuously adapt, and improve together. You’ll bring your experience and lessons from past jobs - and get a chance to help define how our team operates.
• Tackle the toughest technical challenges at StockX. You will work on high impact projects, with massive scale, and massive dollar values attached to them.
• Contribute meaningfully to the success of StockX.

About you:

• You can collaborate effectively across teams to drive large scale architectural designs.
• You bring new technologies, and new architectures and patterns to the table for large-scale event-driven systems, and are effective at evangelizing them.
• You want to spend at least half of your time working in the codebase, delivering the next generation of features to our customers.
• Quality matters to you. Your code is well-tested, well-monitored, easy to read, easy to change, and you are not willing to compromise quality for speed.
• You have practice iterating on service infrastructure, and can collaborate within the team and across teams to help guide the engineers doing the work and making the decisions.
• You form opinions based on data, and are always open to changing your mind. You like working in an environment where others will seek your opinion, and you value seeking other opinions.
• You understand that details matter. You define and test edge cases, you monitor wherever you think there is ambiguity, you think the appropriate number of exceptions is zero, and hunt down and eliminate them when they do happen.
• You take ownership when incidents occur, and are focused on putting systems in place to make sure they don’t occur again.
• You have strong experience with some of our back-end languages (Typescript, Javascript, GoLang, PHP) and technologies (Kafka, Helm/Kubernetes, Redis, AWS, Terraform).
• You have strong professional experience and understanding of data storage, both relational and non-relational.
• You have experience with both event-based architectures and REST-based microservice architectures.
• You have experience with decomposing monolithic services
• You are not afraid of legacy codebases and are comfortable working in them - at least when you are ripping them apart and rebuilding new systems to replace them.
• You have strong communication skills and you are comfortable working remotely with people in different timezones
• You enjoy having a healthy work/life balance :)

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation. Pursuant to the Colorado Fair Pay Act, the base salary range in Colorado for this position is $170,190 - to $208,010 plus opportunities for benefits (e.g., medical, dental), equity and discretionary bonuses. Compensation in other geographies may vary. About Us In a world where consumers increasingly value self-expression and individuality, the market for hard-to-find fashion, collectibles, and electronics has never been hotter. Our global platform offers unique access to current culture while our data-driven, bid-ask model provides buyers with the real-time visibility to know they’re getting a fair price. With key leadership and an inspiring vision in place, we believe we’re poised for significant growth: into new product verticals, new audiences, and new geographies. To get there we’re looking for flexible, all-in teammates who are excited by ownership and the opportunity to take on emerging challenges. If you’re a doer who’s ready to solve tough problems with plenty of laughs along the way, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome, embrace, and respect all dimensions of diversity. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members are valued, supported, and respected—and no, you don’t need to know a thing about sneakers or fashion. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position. StockX reserves the right to amend this job description at any time.