Staff Software Engineer, Favor
Back End
2+ days a week in office
Contact-free food and essential order service
Open for applications
Contact-free food and essential order service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a more connected community to get anything delivered through an affordable and personalized service.
Role
Who you are
- Do you get a thrill when you impact hundreds of thousands of users? Do you want to work for a purpose and value-driven company in a high-growth environment?
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience in a high-growth startup a plus
- Ability to lead larger initiatives working with the product, design, and engineering teams
- Advanced understanding of software design patterns to write clean, well-structured, idiomatic code leveraging the full power of a language
- Ability to create solutions to problems under various constraints using novel algorithms and data structures
- Ability to write atomic tests with minimal side effects
- Strong understanding of test automation techniques
- Ability to gather and define software requirements considering multiple patterns and strategies to build efficient solutions
- Ability to use debugging tools to trace and diagnose issues
- Expert knowledge of REST + JSON, API versioning strategies, and security best practices
- Communicates difficult technical concepts in precise, concise, and unambiguous terms
- Understand database concepts such as joins and indexes and the ability to alter data structures
- Knowledge of how different parts of a system architecture will work together and can diagnose issues within the system
- Appreciate simple design
- Love to write clean, well-tested code - test first, or TDD approaches a plus
- Enjoy working with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment
- Communicate well with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Have experience or familiarity with one or more of the following technologies: Kotlin, Java, PHP, Scala, MySQL, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, JUnit, Jenkins
What the job involves
- Our engineers create the tools and applications necessary to connect our customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams
- As a Staff Software Engineer at Favor you will be responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of our web applications, back-end services, databases, and data warehouse
- You will work closely with our product and operations teams to understand customer needs, build simple solutions to complex problems, and deliver delightful experiences to all our users
- At Favor, we are committed to building a world-class team that shares a passion for modern, clean code and products that make a difference. We need engineers like you to help us achieve our mission of ‘Anything Delivered’
- Recommend changes to processes and tools at the team level based on industry standards, patterns, and practices
- Lead creation of documentation and provide training around technology stacks and standards
- Help other engineers understand system/application designs
- Work with engineering and product management to plan solutions for large features
- Communicate individual and project-level development statuses, issues, risks, and concerns to technical leadership and management
- Independently build, diagnose, and fix high-complexity technical issues
Our take
More and more people are looking to get things delivered fast, and businesses are trying to find inventive ways to meet the demand and get people’s purchases to them as quickly as possible. Favor solves this problem, with an on-demand delivery service that depends on “runners” to get products to customers quickly.
Customers can browse on the Favor app and select items from their list or input items from other stores in the delivery zone, and Favor runners will collect the item and deliver it within an hour. For customers in a hurry, this is obviously appealing. While many on-demand delivery services struggle to scale, Favor itself has managed to scale its operations across Texas and expanded into Philadelphia in mid 2022.
This centralization has given the company an advantage over competitors who have since gone out of business, but it isn’t yet clear if other competitors will imitate Favor's approach to gain market share. The company faces strong challenges from deep-pocketed rivals like DoorDash and Uber Eats.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2017
$22m
SERIES B
Mar 2015
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $35m
Company benefits
- We offer premium health, vision, dental, life and 401(k) options. We go beyond the basics with complimentary meals, commuter benefits, dependent care, and of course - Favor delivery credit and H-E-B discounts
- With a fitness center in the office, we equip you with ways to stay healthy and happy. Any complimentary meals and snacks always feature health options
- Whether you’re an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there’s a group for you here. We foster community through beer Fridays, quarterly company-wide events, and regular connection opportunities
- Our HQ, the Eastside Tech Hub, is located in the heart of East Austin and boasts multiple lounge areas, a coffee bar, library, fully stocked kitchen, wellness center with bouldering wall, and more
- We offer unlimited PTO for salary employees and ample vacation time to all team members. We empower you to live your best life and do your best work!
- We encourage personal growth and education through regular Learning Labs taught by internal team members and external facilitators
Company values
- Keep running - We have lofty goals and the only way to achieve them is to hustle through the challenges. Don’t stop ‘til Tokyo!
- Good vibes - We bring our best selves every day. No matter what comes at us, we attack our work with positivity and resilience
- Own your sh*t - Your position here is valuable and you were chosen for a reason. Be purposeful with your actions and hold yourself accountable
- Community first - We’re connected to the people around us. We don’t just run in someone else’s shoes, we also know the path they took and how they got there
Company HQ
Holly, Austin, TX
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Leadership
Keith Duncan
(CEO, not founder)Began working at the company as SVP of Sales & Business Development and was promoted to CRO within 4 years. They then worked as CRO at Orchard before returning to Favor as CEO in 2023.
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