Principal Software Engineer, Gopuff
Acquisition
$172.8-289.8k
Groceries, alcohol, home essentials delivery service
Job no longer available
Groceries, alcohol, home essentials delivery service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$172.8-289.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver food, drink, supplies, and essentials to customers' doorsteps, safely and quickly.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 8+ years of industry experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience building large-scale applications or similar experience
- Experience as an owner of a particular component, feature, or system
- Experience completing projects at large scope
- Experience working independently and delivering business outcomes for ambiguous projects and features across multiple partner teams
- Experience driving engineering and operational excellence
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional partners and teams
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
- Experience up-leveling team throughput and efficiency
- We are looking for someone who’s passionate about inspiring their team members, and excel at delivering high quality products, systems and services within our growing engineering team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer who is excited about creating innovative solutions to make daily life effortless for our customers
- The kind of people we are looking for are extremely entrepreneurial in nature, to help innovate and execute tech initiatives across the company and value moving quickly
- The role is for the acquisition area responsible for improving the funnel from visits to conversions to retention. It involves running experiments, making data informed decisions, enabling our business partners in the CRM and paid marketing space
- Full stack web/mobile application and services development with a variety of coding languages
- Work closely with our PM and design teams to define feature specifications and build products
- Work closely with operations and infrastructure to build and scale back-end services
- Build report interfaces and data feeds
- Establish self as an owner of a particular component, feature, or system with expert end-to-end understanding
- Successfully completes projects at large scope while maintaining a consistently high level of productivity
- Successfully lead projects through the complete software development experience: plan, design, code, test, deploy, measure
- We are looking for someone who can be an amazing culture fit for our team and for Gopuff, through inspiring excellence, demonstrating a bias for action, challenging the status quo, focusing on impact / results, and promoting a collaborative environment
Our take
Gopuff was an early player in the last-mile delivery space, offering consumers access to a wide range of consumer goods (including food and alcohol) with delivery in ~30 minutes through its network of micro fulfillment centers, from which a fleet of drivers pick up and drop off orders.
Gopuff currently operates in over 1,000 cities and is adding more. The company has also made several strategic acquisitions to charge its growth – including UKs Fancy and Dija, and US BevMo!. However, the company faces increased competition on all sides, from Getir (who recently acquired Gorillas), Glovo, and Zapp, as well as high operating costs.
To combat its competition, the company has added a range of new capabilities to its platform, launching features to eliminate former pain points by including advance order scheduling, gifting, and in-store pickup.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Nov 2025
$250m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$1.5bn
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $5.2bn
Company HQ
Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Leadership
Yakir Gola
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Co-founded GoPuff whilst studying at Drexel University.
Rafael Ilishayev
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Rafael studied at Drexel University with Yakir, where they co-founded Gopuff together in October 2013, and have been co-CEOs since.
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