Back End Software Engineer, StockX
Growth Team
$120-140k
+ equity and discretionary bonuses
Streetwear marketplace
Job no longer available
Streetwear marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-140k
+ equity and discretionary bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide access to the world's most coveted items in the smartest way possible.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years of relevant development experience
- Experience with distributed architecture. Proficiency in one or more backend languages used by the team (NodeJS, GoLang) or equivalent experience in another language and a willingness to learn and get up to speed quickly
- Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills. Ability to say no when needed
- Experience with data storage technologies, both relational and NoSQL
- Experience with event-based architecture and with related technologies like kafka, SNS or SQS
- Experience with cloud platforms - Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform
- Exposure to CI/CD frameworks and tools/technologies like Github, K8s, Harness
Desirable
- Experience with working in an Agile environment
- Ability to work in a fast paced and constantly changing environment
- Knowledge of GraphQL and REST Frameworks
What the job involves
- We are looking for a motivated, highly enthusiastic, technical backend engineer to join our Growth Team. This team is responsible for generating traffic to StockX, including attracting new customers and retaining existing ones
- Our domain includes ads, analytics, growth hacking, notifications (marketing and transactional email, push and SMS), promotions, SEM/Google Shopping and SEO. We are currently expanding our team to build fault-tolerant, scalable platforms for all the aforementioned areas and are looking for technology experts to architect, design, and build them
- Work with product owners, internal stakeholders, program managers and engineering managers to crystallize ambiguous requirements and propose resilient technical solutions which scale to future business needs
- Work with engineers in the team to take these proposed solutions and architect and design them
- Efficiently break up large system designs and guide the junior team members in detailed component design. Help the team to implement, deploy and monitor systems and services
- Propose and adopt best engineering practices and guide development standards
- Foster a growth mindset culture. Be a team player. Contribute to and follow team processes for better sprint outcomes
- Apply considerations around security, scalability, reliability, and performance while proposing and building solutions
- Use sound technical judgment to consider technology alternatives, impact on affected and adjacent systems, and design choice tradeoffs
- Demonstrate complete ownership of services for your area of work. Participate in supporting your systems and services through any system upgrades, live site issues and others
- Provide timely communication to stakeholders and users for resolving issues
Our take
StockX pairs buyers with sellers and verifies products through its live bid-and-ask structure, funding itself by charging a transaction fee on each sale. In return it verifies each item sold on the platform for authenticity and condition, setting it aside from competitors in this space such as TheRealReal.
The company is now hoping to further distinguish itself by working directly with brands to release products through the platform, with a vision to letting its customers set the price for goods in the same way investors do for shares in the stock exchange.
Despite issues including allegations of counterfeiting from Nike and a general slowdown in the resale goods market over 2022, StockX has continued its rapid growth, doubling the number of buyers on its network to 12 million. While a global economic slowdown has caused it to give up on plans for an IPO in the near term, StockX is nonetheless planning to expand its product line and expand internationally in the near future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$60m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$275m
SERIES E
Total funding: $495m
Company benefits
- We promote the physical and emotional health of our team members and their families. We offer generous health benefits packages to keep our team members happy and healthy
- Rest and recharge when you need it the most: In addition to a full holiday schedule, we offer generous paid time off for our team members
- Be present with your new family member: Through our parental leave benefit, new parents receive paid time off
- Invest in your future. Many of our team members can take part in our pension or 401k programs
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown Detroit, Detroit, MI
Leadership
Greg Schwartz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at Deutsche Bank before founding Upto, a calendar software startup where he acted as CEO prior to founding StockX
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