Senior Principal Software Engineer, Gopuff
$215-285k
Plus this role is eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus and participation in Gopuff’s equity incentive plan
Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
Open for applications
Food, alcohol, and daily essentials delivery service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$215-285k
Plus this role is eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus and participation in Gopuff’s equity incentive plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver food, drink, supplies, and essentials to customers' doorsteps, safely and quickly.
Role
Who you are
- 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 collaboration with empowered teams
- We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently great experiences within our engineering team
- 10+ years engineering experience with a proven track record as an engineer building scalable publicly facing web sites preferably in start-up environments or early stage companies
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or related field)
- Proven experience in a senior engineering role with increasing responsibility
- Experience leading technical discussions including evaluation and design of technical solutions
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Need to effectively communicate strategy, technical direction, priorities and collaborate with other engineering leads
- Demonstrated success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
- Demonstrated ability to mentor a team, and lead without direction
- Proficiency with SQL, Postgres, Java, Go (golang), and/or nodejs
- An in-depth and hands on knowledge of data structures, algorithms and modern web and/or cloud technologies
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer who is excited about creating innovative solutions to make life effortless for our customers!
- As a senior principal engineer, you will build and own the platforms that our systems run on
- You will build high scale, high throughput APIs to serve millions of customers
- You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to improve the UX for our customers searching and browsing for products on Gopuff
- Your primary responsibility will be to drive the technical architecture and design of our business domains
- Success in this role will be measured by the delivery of business critical results and impact to the engineering department
- Lead cross functional projects across multiple teams impacting the success of the larger organization
- Lead technical discussions, design/architect and implement solutions to scale
- Support standard development practices across multiple teams, including idiomatic syntax, design patterns, and Test driven development
- Evangelize impactful improvements in our technologies
- 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
- Trace bugs across the entire software stack, including into the OS, libraries, virtual machine and compiler if necessary
- Implement and Monitor analytics to ensure the correctness of the business process
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
- Promote and support GoPuff Engineering’s culture of inclusion and diversity
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 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.
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. After abandoning plans to IPO in mid-2022, it is focusing back on profitability, though the company has faced some scrutiny over its methods and has had to search further afield for funding at a time when venture capital is scarce. Regardless, Gopuff is well set to remain a major player in the market.
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 benefits
- Gopuff employee discount
- Career growth opportunities
- Internal rewards programs
- Annual performance appraisal and bonus
- Equity program
Company HQ
Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Leadership
Yakir Gola
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Founded GoPuff whilst studying at Drexel University.
Rafael Ilishayev
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)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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