Senior Software Engineer, Recharge
Merchant Experience
Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce
Job no longer available
Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create a world where payments are frictionless, and help merchants grow faster.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant development experience in fast-paced environments
- Experience with Python and Flask
- Experience with React frameworks such as Remix or NextJS
- Experience with large-scale frontend architecture, framework migration, component and design library systems
- Experience with TypeScript is preferred
- A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems iteratively
- Experience building, launching, and supporting new product features
- Self-driven; pragmatic; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes
- Ability to demonstrate high self-sufficiency to take on and complete projects in a timely manner
- Exceptional analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to develop, maintain, and debug product features throughout the stack
What the job involves
- The Merchant Experience team at Recharge is responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining merchant administration user experiences
- The merchant experience ecosystem sits at the intersection of many core product feature areas that help merchants manage orders, subscriptions, customers, products, discounts, bundles, collections, and more
- This is a high-impact, high-visibility feature team and will keep you very close to the end user experiences
- In this role, you will be a core contributor to ensuring the merchant experience is one that is modern, performant, and reliable for merchant administrators
- You will develop, maintain, and debug features across the merchant experience stack, enabling product vision to come to life
- You will collaborate to clarify, theorize, figure out, and decide solutions to complex problems closely with your team
- Ensuring the team delivers will be critical to our success, which will require thorough code reviews, quality releases, and being in an on-call rotation
- As a core engineer of the team, you will take on shared ownership of the merchant experience ecosystem to govern the best practices for component contributions, architecture patterns, and enabling other feature teams to develop quickly
- Live by and champions all of our core values (#accountability, #collaboration, #iteration, and #details)
- Build, maintain, and debug high-impact product features within the merchant experience ecosystem
- Perform thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Embrace rapid iterative design, testing, and development to gain context and understanding along the way informing the next useful step in delivering value
- Develop proof of concepts and incremental features within the merchant experience ecosystem, while ensuring contributions meet Recharge design and code standards
- Investigate, analyze, and evangelize programming methodologies
- Champion good habits (development techniques, security, and tech debt balance) amongst your peers while advocating for improved engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Collaborate with product and engineering management to inform roadmap timeline and identify approaches to release product features incrementally
- Participate in all phases of the Product Development Lifecycle with product and engineering management to inform technical viability of product and engineering initiatives for key stakeholders
Our take
E-commerce platform Recharge has been in operation since 2014, helping brands set up and manage a subscription business, removing the operational inefficiencies that brands would face when attempting to manage this themselves. Its cloud-based subscription management platform aims to offer merchants flexibility by leading with an API focus.
Recharge’s basic premise has proven a smart one, with the e-commerce subscription market growing substantially since the company was founded. It, of course, rose particularly steeply over the pandemic, with the closure of brick-and-mortar stores, but in general still follows a market trend towards direct-to-consumer relationships, promising a growing market for Recharge going forward.
Success for the company has been clear, with its merchant roster boasting several thousand users, including Harry’s, Oatly, and BrewDog. The sector has attracted substantial funding, with Recharge completing a remarkable funding round in 2021. This came atop its already stable, cash-flow-positive business and supported its further progress as the subscription industry developed. The company is focused on maintaining its strong position, with new updates and improvements to its offering, including Retain, a suite of tools designed to support retention throughout the subscriber lifecycle.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2021
$227m
SERIES B
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $277m
Company benefits
- Equity packages
- 401(k) offering
- 100% coverage for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your dependents
- $700/mo remote-life stipend
- Monthly stipend to cover health and wellness
- Coworking space
- Subscription products
- Unlimited paid time off
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave to eligible team members
- Team & company retreats: We value making in-person connections. Past locations include San Diego, Vail, Seattle & Orlando
Company HQ
Mid-City, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Oisin O'Connor
(CEO)UCLA Economics graduate who worked as an Analyst at Deloitte before co-founding three companies, all centred on commerce and payments.
Michael Flynn
(CTO)Studied Mechanical Engineering at UCLA, before co-founding a number of companies, including Opportunity Green.
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