Lead Engineer, Stitchfix
Fulfillment Platforms
$111.8-186k
+ Equity
Online personal styling
Open for applications
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$111.8-186k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change the way people find clothes they love by combining technology with the personal touch of seasoned style experts.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5+ years of software engineering experience
- You have fluency in a modern programming language, with Go experience or interest in learning Go strongly preferred. Our stack also includes Ruby and Python
- You have proven experience designing large-scale, event-driven or distributed systems (ideally in fulfillment, logistics or e-commerce)
- You have a track record of leading engineers through ambiguous, cross-functional projects and delivering production software that moves key business metrics
- You have proven experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) plus a knack for picking up new technologies fast
- You have built production services on a major cloud platform - AWS, GCP, Azure or similar - and are highly skilled with modern observability stacks like Datadog
- You have practical knowledge of optimization, forecasting, or decision-science techniques ,and the humility to partner with specialists when needed
- You have a bias for automated testing, continuous delivery, and observability as non-negotiable facets of quality
- You have strong communication skills and are able to translate between technical details and business outcomes for stakeholders at every level
What the job involves
- As the Lead Engineer on Fulfillment Platform, you will help to set the technical direction for the systems that orchestrate Stitch Fix’s warehouse and transportation networks
- You will focus on development and roadmapping against key application enhancements to support floor efficiency, accuracy, and system reliability—all while mentoring engineers and driving industry best practices
- Your work will directly influence how quickly and economically we delight clients, unlock inventory, and grow our margins
- Influence the evolution of our multi-carrier shipping platform—rate shopping, label generation, tracking ingestion, and returns workflows
- Design fault-tolerant services that reconcile hundreds of thousands of carrier events per day and surface real-time shipment status to downstream systems
- Ensure comprehensive visibility into warehouse operations and precise ingestion of new merchandise
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and thoughtful feedback, fostering a culture of high standards and continuous learning
- Instrument, monitor, and tune our services for reliability, latency, and cost
- Translate business goals (cost, delivery promise) into technical roadmaps that balance short-term wins with long-term scalability
- Build tight relationships between enthusiastic partners in varied disciplines of industrial, software, and operations research engineering, owning end-to-end hardware to cloud solutions
- Solution at high speed with a small, agile team of coworkers to produce outsized impact on the business
- Showcase your ability to solution in a system with high-uptime requirements
- Have the autonomy to identify and roadmap unaddressed problems in the business and their impact, as well as offer new, improved solutions to existing challenges
- Take a leading role in prioritizing and sequencing high-impact work to drive the best value for our clients and stakeholders
- Apply your understanding of systems design, engineering for resiliency, and thinking in tradeoffs across a multidisciplinary team of hardware, application, and machine learning engineers
- Be exposed to a wide-open field of opportunity for impact with plenty of challenges to make your own
Our take
Shopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.
Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge. The stylists fee is deducted from the first purchase and if they keep all 5 items, they receive a discount.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology, and human touch in styling, allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale, with its growing data sets putting them in a great place to predict consumer trends and preferences. Unfortunately, the company has been hit hard by the current economic climate - cutting staff back in June 2022 as well as again in early 2023. Only time will tell if this once exciting brand will be able to bounce back from this bump in the road and find success again in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2014
$30m
SERIES C
Oct 2013
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $47.6m
Company benefits
- Leadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunities
- Company equity for eligible roles
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited vacation for qualified roles
- Competitive parental leave
- Enjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample sales
- Collaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughout
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Katrina Lake
(CEO)BA in Economics from Stanford. MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously 2 years as an Associate at The Parthenon Group and 2 years as an Associate at Leader Ventures.
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