Associate Software Engineer

Why you'll love this role

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

We are looking for a motivated, highly enthusiastic Front-End Associate Software Engineer to join our agile Supply Chain Engineering team. This stack comprises our systems and services to enable a better customer delivery experience, provide an efficient supply chain, and ensure products meet StockX Verification standards. We build resilient, distributed applications which scale seamlessly with our business growth. Our engineers are empowered to take ownership of technology decisions and solutions while playing a pivotal role in establishing a thriving engineering culture at our fast-growing company.

Our technical stack comprises various systems and services built on Amazon Web Services. On the front-end, we use modern Javascript (ES6), Typescript, React, and Next.js. On the backend, we use Node.js, Typescript, restful APIs, GraphQL, CircleCI, Harness, Kubernetes, Kafka, DynamoDB, and Aurora DB (Postgres). 

What you'll do

• Work with product owners, designers, and stakeholders to clarify requirements, make technical recommendations, and independently build, deploy, and monitor resilient front-end solutions. 
• Work with back-end engineers to integrate your solutions with existing and newly designed web services.
• Work with quality engineers to test and validate your solutions. 
• Stay on top of current and upcoming best practices for front-end development. 
• Apply security, scalability, reliability, and performance considerations while proposing and building solutions.
• Propose and adopt best engineering practices and guide development standards.
• Foster a growth mindset culture. Be a team player. Contribute to and follow team processes for better sprint outcomes.
• Use sound technical judgment to consider technology alternatives, impact on affected and adjacent systems, and design choice tradeoffs.
• Take responsibility for the performance and uptime of the services owned by the team by collecting metrics, participating in on-call rotations, monitoring production systems, performing regular maintenance, debugging issues as they come up, and responding with a sense of urgency
• Work with vendors where needed to bring clarity on technically ambiguous integration points.
• Provide timely communication to stakeholders and users to resolve issues.

About you

• One to three years of relevant experience. 
• Strong experience working with Javascript (ES6, Typescript, React, HTML, CSS) in a modern browser environment.  
• Strong experience and understanding of the React ecosystem and building complex user interfaces.
• Experience and understanding of state management with Zustand, Redux, Context, or similar systems.
• Understanding of web development best practices including performance optimization, internationalization, and localization. 
• Knowledge of mobile-first responsive design and implementation. 
• Experience working with AWS or another equivalent cloud provider (Azure, GCP, etc). 
• Experience integrating with web service backends (Rest, GraphQL, etc). 
• Experience in service-oriented and microservice architectures.
• You are product-focused and collaborate to find the best possible solutions
• Hands-on experience with testing strategies, automation, and CICD pipelines. 

Nice to have skills

• Experience in a 24×7 high-availability production environment.
• Experience with using Datadog (APM, RUM, metrics) or an equivalent system will be a plus.
• Experience with one or more back-end languages used by the team (Typescript, Javascript, Node.js) or equivalent experience in another language (PHP, C#, Java) and a willingness to learn and get up to speed quickly.
• Experience with data storage, relational (particularly Postgres) and non-relational (particularly Redis and DynamoDB).
• Exposure to CI/CD frameworks and tools/technologies like Github, K8s, Harness, and LaunchDarkly will be a plus

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 various pay transparency laws/acts, the base salary range is $80,000 to $100,000 plus opportunities for benefits (e.g., medical, dental), equity and discretionary bonuses. Compensation is dependent on geography and may vary.

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