Mobile Platform Architect, Stitchfix
$254-270k
Online personal styling
Job no longer available
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$254-270k
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 6+ years of mobile architecture experience
- You have 10+ years of software development experience
- You drive challenging and complex cross-functional problems to resolution
- You thoughtfully approach solutions and recognize the importance of buy-in, feedback, and teamwork
- You easily build trust and rapport with everyone
- You thrive as a technical representative for Mobile Platforms
- You are enthusiastic about technology
- You enjoy building solutions that contribute to design and architecture across multiple systems
- You care deeply about the experience you are delivering
- You have a platform-focused mindset
- You can clearly articulate future architecture vision and prioritize better solutions over perfection
- You love helping engineers grow
- You constantly learn from and teach the people you work with
- You've demonstrated your ability to help engineers grow into senior technical leaders
- You have deep respect for your craft
- You continually seek improved software architecture and enthusiastically share your findings with the team
- You have extensive hands-on experience designing and architecting Native iOS and Native Android applications, with a deep understanding of their ecosystems
- You are proficient in mobile development languages such as Swift and Kotlin, as well as a strong understanding of mobile app architecture patterns (e.g., MVC, MVVM, TCA)
What the job involves
- As a platform team, we impact client and developer experiences through a range of technical projects, from enhancing performance and accessibility to optimizing CI and architecture
- You will own projects and influence our direction
- You'll help evolve our approach to technical and operational excellence. This will include things like architecture reviews, systems design, incident management, and observability
- You will also define processes, frameworks and strategies for building systems to help our mid-career engineers develop into senior engineers
- And you’ll also help develop our mobile strategy and advocate for mobile-specific concerns in the wider organization, building strong cross-functional relationships with partners at many levels
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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