Full-Time Senior Full Stack Engineer

Who We’re Looking For

The Senior Full Stack Engineer acts as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers to help us create software and services for the Discogs product. As a technical subject matter expert, this role is instrumental in driving our technology vision forward and evangelizing development and testing practices that drives Discogs transformation and growth strategies. Requires great ability to multi-task across projects as well as to adapt to different areas of the code where previous knowledge, skills, and experience may not exist. This role provides strong technical leadership and mentorship to develop the capabilities of other team members. This role motivates and fosters collaboration across the teams. 

What You’ll Accomplish

• Plan, develop, and deploy server-side and client-side software in sprint cycles.
• Observe, debug and optimize production systems with thousands of concurrent users.
• Research new frontiers, prototype implementations and share knowledge.
• Communicate openly and collaborate frequently with Product and Engineering teams to quickly deliver high quality products that maximize value to the Discogs ecosystem.
• Take responsibility over large, complex features from concept to design to delivery with no guidance. 
• Maintain, rebuild and adapt legacy codebases alongside modernizing our stack. 
• Assists team with estimation and prioritization of development efforts.
• Coaches and mentors other engineers by providing recommendations, technical oversight, code reviews and feedback.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

What You’ll Contribute

Minimum Experience and Education

• 5+ years of experience developing software solutions
• Strong skill set with Python 
• Building, operating, troubleshooting and optimizing production systems under load.
• Delivered software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks.
• Interface with relational databases using SQL.
• Using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC.
• Familiarity with Build systems, DevOps and CI/CD procedures.
• Familiarity with cloud services.
• Thorough understanding of HTTP APIs.
• Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members. 
• Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance.
• Experience completing a significant refactor of an existing software project.
• Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers.
• Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers.
• Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.
• Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas.
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university in math\computer science related field, or equivalent work experience. 

Preferred Experience

• eCommerce experience
• Completed large-scale systems migrations.
• Use of containerization and orchestration technologies, Docker and Kubernetes.
• FastAPI, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Flask, Gherkin, Playwright, Redis
• AWS, DataDog, Sentry, Cloudflare
• Serverless functions, distributed/edge systems and event driven architectures.
• ADA / WCAG Compliance