Senior Software Engineer, Flywheel Digital
Backend, Python
3 days a week in office
Simplified digital commerce solutions
Job no longer available
Simplified digital commerce solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To redefine a future where all businesses can seamlessly navigate the rapid change of digital commerce and drive growth.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in web-based technologies at a product company
- You have strong experience with Python frameworks such as Django/Flask, relational databases such as Postgres, and the cloud either GCP or AWS
- You have experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS. You consider yourself stronger in either front-end or back-end development, but at the same time, you are not afraid to go deep on the rest of the stack
- You are comfortable with navigating a large codebase across dozens of repositories
- You’ve worked closely in teams of ~5 engineers before, solving hard problems collaboratively, and working tightly with your immediate peers as well as across teams
- Strong experience with algorithms, data structures, and building systems that process terabytes of data
- You are comfortable navigating vague problems and creating clarity from uncertainty and communicating it clearly to your peers
- We believe in taking ownership from start to end. You pride yourself on your ability to take complex problems and iterate on them until you find a simple solution
What the job involves
- In this role, you will support our Perpetua product, which focuses on the seller and SMB market segment within the Flywheel portfolio. Perpetua provides growth optimization and reporting technology for the world’s smartest eCommerce businesses
- Through the platform, brands and sellers create goals based on strategy and rely on Perpetua’s best-in-class, always-on optimization to execute tactically
- As a Senior Software Engineer with Perpetua, you will be contributing to web applications written in Django Python and ReactJS. to bring a great Perpetua experience to our users
- Amazon Ads is a $40B business today and every retailer on the planet is replicating the Amazon playbook, we’ve already transformed the way businesses approach e-commerce and online advertising and we’re ready to continue growing
- You will build end-to-end full stack capabilities in our core platform across marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, and Instacart
- You will help us build deeper workflows into retail media platforms from across the globe. You will contribute to system design and architecture across our back-end microservices primarily deployed on GCP. From how we ingest and process terabytes of data every day to how data flows through our systems to power our platform
- You will work closely with a team of 4-5 engineers, a product manager, and a designer to deliver a smooth experience to our customers
- You will support the wider engineering organization by identifying areas of improvement, proposing RFCs, seeking feedback early and often, iterating over your ideas, and co-creating something better than you could have done by yourself
Application process
- Every role starts the same, an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team
- We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call
- Every role is different after the initial call, but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the role
- In your initial call, we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be
Our take
Flywheel is a digital commerce solution company that provides tools for retail commerce ops, media execution and market intelligence. Its real-time insights and decision making is aimed at boosting eCommerce sales, helping companies grow faster, smarter and more efficiently.
Founded in 2014, Flywheel amalgamated a number of digital commerce tools into a proprietary cloud platform that manages tens of billions in product sales and billions in advertising spend every year. It serves over 4500 brands internationally, a sure sign that it has solidified a presence in the space.
In 2023, New York-based Omnicom Group acquired Flywheel for $835 million. The company will continue to operate under its own name, but now as a "Practice Area" within Omnicom. Flywheel’s products will be connected to Omnicom’s audience and behavioural data, elevating both companies' analytics and insights power.
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Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical coverage
- Paid vacation and holidays
- Country-specific savings and benefits plans
Company HQ
Locust Point, Baltimore, MD
Leadership
Patrick G Miller
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-President at Ascential, Vice President at Compass Marketing, Director of Community at Chesapeake Bay Foundation and an Operations Director at Petrie Ross Ventures.
Chip DiPaula
(Co-Founder)Previously Executive Vice President at Compass Marketing, COO at Petrie Ross Ventures and Chief of Staff for Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr of Maryland.
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