Back End Software Engineer, StockX
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$120-145k
Streetwear marketplace
Job no longer available
Streetwear marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-145k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide access to the world's most coveted items in the smartest way possible.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum two years of relevant experience
- Strong experience with one or more back-end languages used by the team (Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, PHP) or equivalent experience in another language (C#, Java) and a willingness to learn and get up to speed quickly
- Experience with data storage, relational (particularly Postgres) and non-relational (particularly Redis and DynamoDB)
- Experience in service-oriented and microservice architectures
- Experience with event-based architectures and an understanding of how to successfully use them with Kafka, SNS, SQS, or other related services
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud providers (e.g., Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
- You have built highly resilient and scalable REST-based services
- You are product-focused and collaborate to find the best possible solutions
- Hands-on experience with testing strategies, automation, and CICD pipelines
Desirable
- Experience in a 24×7 high-availability production environment
- Infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Packer, or similar
- Aptitude to be a good team player and the desire to learn and implement new Cloud technologies as needed
- Working experience with Kubernetes
- Full-stack will be a plus
What the job involves
- 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 security, scalability, reliability, and performance considerations 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 upgrades, live site issues, and others. Work with vendors where needed to bring clarity on technically ambiguous integration points
- Provide timely communication to stakeholders and users to resolve 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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