About Dutchie
Founded in 2017, Dutchie is a comprehensive technology platform powering dispensary operations, while providing consumers with safe and easy access to cannabis. Dutchie aims to further support the positive societal change the cannabis industry brings to the world through wellness benefits, social justice, and empowering local communities through tax revenue. Powering thousands of dispensaries across 40+ markets throughout the United States and Canada, Dutchie is the leading technology company in the cannabis space and was named in Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in North America and listed two years in a row on LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups.
Dutchie has raised over $600M in funding to date, backed by D1 Capital Partners, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DFJ Growth, Thrive Capital, Howard Schultz, Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital, Gron Ventures, members of the founding team at DoorDash, Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures, and other notable angel investors.
Join Our Traceability Team as a Senior Software Engineer!
Ready to build the backbone of cannabis compliance? As a Senior Software Engineer on our Traceability team, you'll architect and develop a robust compliance engine that adapts to each state's unique regulations.
What you'll build:
- Automated purchase limit enforcement systems
- ID verification and validation workflows
- Comprehensive purchase and inventory tracking
- Seamless integrations with state traceability platforms
You'll partner with engineering, product, and frontline teams to create solutions that are not just functional but genuinely delightful for dispensaries to use. We're seeking a talented engineer who thrives on solving complex regulatory puzzles, designing scalable architecture, and mentoring fellow engineers.
What excites us about you:
- You embrace the challenge of working with legacy systems and transforming them for the future
- You're comfortable questioning assumptions and helping your teammates level up their skills
- You thrive in our fast-paced environment and share our commitment to exceptional product delivery
If you're passionate about building technology that makes a real difference in how businesses operate compliantly, we'd love to meet you!
What You’ll Do...
- Architect and develop mission-critical features for our traceability/compliance platform using C# (.NET), React, and SQL Server.
- Design and build scalable services for integrating with Traceability systems in various markets (e.g. METRC, BioTrack, etc.).
- Partner with product and design to scope and plan work appropriately. We don’t always have the time to take the ideal route, so being able to collaborate cross-functionally and create flexible execution plans is often key
- Mentoring other engineers to unlock their potential, helping them grow their skills to meet the evolving needs of Dutchie’s customers
- Take part in core architectural decisions that will build the foundation of the platform.
- Develop mission-critical consumer flows for new features, as well as experimenting on old ones
What You Bring...
- 5+ years of professional development experience with a deep understanding of backend server languages (C# is required).
- Proven experience building and shipping production-level features using modern front-end frameworks like React.
- Proficiency with relational databases (SQL) and the ability to design and extend scalable data models.
- Experience working in high-scale, distributed systems.
- You take pride in the code you write—it's clean, tested, organized, and elegant.
- You're a self-starter, proactive, and can drive projects forward without constant direction.
- You're a quick learner who enjoys picking up new frameworks and technologies.
- Excellent communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative, agile environment where we ship code often.
It’s a bonus if you...
- Have deep experience with third-party API integrations.
- Have built integrations with 3rd party Traceability integration APIs.
- You have gone through a rapid growth period in a previous company (from startup to mid-size)
- You think through problems starting from first-principles and the customer’s perspective
You’ll Get…
We are targeting a starting salary of $149,000 - $200,000 based on the intended level for this role.
In addition to cash compensation, our total rewards package includes:
- Full medical benefits including dental and vision plans to ensure you always have the best care.
- Equity packages in the form of stock options to all employees.
- Technology (hardware, software, reading materials, etc..) allowance
- Flexible vacation and sick days
At Dutchie, we’re committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Dutchie believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
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