Senior Backend Engineer, Java/Kotlin
ABOUT US
We build tools for 100+ brands and retailers in the ecommerce space that help them offer free two-day shipping, same-day delivery, and product expansion into new marketplaces -- keeping them several steps ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing industry.
We are a purpose- and culture-driven organization that prides ourselves on connectivity, equality, diversity and inclusion. We are committed to our people as a service-oriented company as our people are at the heart of everything we do.
We are Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Conshohocken, PA (Philly area), and Krakow, Poland and we operate as a subsidiary of FedEx Services.
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. We currently utilize React and Kotlin in many key services.
This role is US based only but we are open to any of our US offices in Chicago, IL, Conshohocken, PA (Philly), and New York City or fully remote in any of these states: CA, DE, IL, IN, FLA, MA, NY, NJ, NC, SC, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA, CT, MD, MI. From time to time, there will be limited travel to our offices as the need arises.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Enhance the process for collecting and storing order information from retailers
- Create and and improve APIs used to expose order data to other teams
- Solve end-to-end problems from a wide range of systems, processes and technologies
- Collaborate with developers from data science, marketing, and other teams
- Review, recommend and implement new technologies
- Occasional emergency on-call support during non-working hours
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelors degree and 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.
- Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language, such as Java or Kotlin
- Familiarity with functional programming principles using languages such as Kotlin or Scala
- Experience using data in support of larger efforts, from reusing other services and APIs, writing new APIs, to streaming data for smarter online systems.
- 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 Kafka, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker, Jenkins
We want you to bring your whole human self to work every single day. We accept you for who you are and consider everyone 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.