Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

at  Feedonomics

ABOUT FEEDONOMICS

Have you ever wondered how companies list their products on Amazon? Or how Google knows which products are in stock in a store near you? How about how your order gets to your door when you buy from a 3rd party merchant on Amazon? That’s where Feedonomics comes in!
As a leading product feed management platform, Feedonomics partners with agencies, brands, and retailers to optimize and list their products on the top ecommerce shopping destinations around the world.
Here at Feedonomics we “eat our own dog food”, meaning that in addition to our merchant and agency users, Feedonomics has over a hundred analysts using our platform to service some of the largest merchants in the world like Walmart and Target. This makes sure that we are building the right product and iterating constantly.
Since its inception in 2014, Feedonomics has developed an incredible reputation for our full-service approach to feed management, our inclusive culture, and our industry-leading technology. With principles that go beyond optics, Feedonomics looks to deliver the same people-first strategy internally as we do externally.

THE REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of programming experience in backend languages
• 2+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language
• 2+ years experience with MySQL or a similar technology
• Strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
• Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems
• Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
• DevOps experience preferred
• Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred
• Workable understanding of Linux operating systems Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
• Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services
• Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications
• Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment
• Drive technology design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and Engineering leadership
• Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
• Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that solve concrete business problems
• Become a domain expert who follows industry trends and applies best practices and contributes towards continuous improvement of those practices