Principal Software Engineer, Stitchfix
Client Identity & Access Management
$226-240k
+ Equity
Online personal styling
Job no longer available
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$226-240k
+ 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
- Have roughly 10+ years of professional programming experience
- Have extensive experience in the authentication space
- Have hands-on experience with running Ruby on Rails, along with other modern web stacks (e.g. Node, React, Golang, Postgres, GraphQL, Kafka)
- Have 3+ years of experience in technical leadership - including driving technical decisions and guiding broader project goals
- Are bright, kind, and motivated by challenge
- Have excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written
- Treasure helping your team members grow and learn
- Take initiative and operate with accountability
- Are motivated by solving problems and finding creative client-focused solutions
- Build high-quality solutions and are pragmatic about weighing project scope and value
- Are flexible, dedicated to your craft, and curious
- Have experience working remotely alongside a distributed software engineering team
- Might have experience with evolving a resilient distributed service architecture
- Might have experience with GraphQL schema design
- Might have prior experience with accessibility best practices
What the job involves
- Operate as an engaged member of the engineering team - leading the designing of complex system designs, recommending solutions and 3rd party integrations, providing input on technical design documents & project plans, pairing with other engineers and stakeholders to work toward a solution, etc
- Lead the collaboration with stakeholders while leading the execution of complex and/or critical projects within the Client Identity & Access Management team or across multiple engineering teams
- Model consistently sustainable results against measurable goals
- Break down projects into actionable milestones
- Proactively communicate status updates or changes to the scope or timeline of projects to stakeholders and leadership
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, timely feedback, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
- Actively invest in the professional development and career growth of your teammates and peers
- Frame business problems using high-quality data analysis and empirical evidence for leadership
- Find new and better ways of doing things that align with business priorities
- Influence other engineers toward right-sized solutions
- Participate in on-call rotations and improve the on-call experience for others
- Help Stitch Fix continue to develop new methods of collaborating with partners across the organization
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.
Stitchfix's unique blend of technology and human touch allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale. Unfortunately, this once exciting brand has been hit hard by economic trends, cutting back staff and shutting down UK operations entirely. Only time will tell if it can bounce back 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
(Founder & Executive Chair)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.
Matt Baer
(CEO)Board Member at La-Z-Boy Incorporated. Former Chief Customer and Digital Officer at Macy's, VP at Walmart eCommerce. Founded and was COO at Bezar.
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