Senior Principal Software Engineer, Gopuff

• We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is excited about creating innovative solutions to make life effortless for our customers!
• The kind of people we are looking for want to create an end to end shopping experience that will delight our customers, enable partners to expand their reach through unique brand experiences, and bring new concepts to life from the ground up alongside some of the biggest and most recognizable companies in the world
• In short, we are looking for people who are eager to help create the future of Gopuff!
• The right candidate will have the technical aptitude to drive good technology choices through leadership and mentorship of an empowered team
• We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently quality solutions within our growing engineering team. If you are a driven and experienced software engineer ready to take on leadership responsibilities, we would love to hear from you
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• Proven experience in a Principal engineering role with increasing responsibility
• Proficiency with SQL, Postgres, Java, Go (golang), and/or Nodejs
• Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms and their application in building Data intensive applications that process high velocity data (millions of transactions) or high volume data (transactions impacting millions of records)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to mentor a team, and lead without direction

Desirable

• Your primary responsibility will be to integrate Gopuff’s software with third party systems
• Success in this role will be measured by the team’s effective delivery of services
• Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality software solutions
• Implement system and data monitors to ensure the correctness of the business process
• Contribute to multiple team-wide business and tech objectives (beyond just the goals assigned to you)
• Lead cross-functional projects in an agile environment, participate in planning process
• Scope, decompose, and organize projects for multiple teammates. Delegate tasks and coordinate teammates to bring those projects to completion with minimal oversight. Generate time estimates with reasonable accuracy to help determine project timelines
• Support standard development practices across your team, including idiomatic syntax, design patterns, and Testing/Quality Practice
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
• Integrate with existing REST APIs, author new APIs, and expose the data to the frontend