Lead Software Engineer, Minted
Ordering Services
$135.4-227.8k
Salary dependent on location. This role is eligible for an annual performance bonus and stock options
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
Open for applications
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$135.4-227.8k
Salary dependent on location. This role is eligible for an annual performance bonus and stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To uncover the world’s best creative talent.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional experience as a software developer
- 5+ years of experience as Staff/Lead
- A B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Strong, hands-on experience architecting, designing, and building scalable, resilient micro-services and event-driven architecture systems
- Proven track record leading the migration of complex legacy monolithic systems to a micro-services-based architecture
- Excellent knowledge of monolith-to-micro-services migration patterns, such as Strangler Fig, Branch By Abstraction, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles
- Strong hands-on programming skills in more than one language with a strong preference for Python
- Effective verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex architectural decisions to engineers and senior leadership alike
- The ability to understand business problems and synthesize types that accurately model them within a distributed domain
- The desire to ship is greater than the desire to polish
- Expertise in cart systems, payment gateways, and fraud detection mechanisms is a plus
- A Strategic Technical Leader: Adept at balancing short-term priorities with long-term technical vision and objectives, particularly during a complex system migration
- Customer-Centric: Committed to enhancing the customer experience through thoughtful and innovative solutions
- Empathetic and Inclusive: Foster a collaborative, respectful, and accountable team culture where diverse perspectives thrive
- Solution-focused: Approach challenges with a forward-thinking mindset, ensuring momentum is maintained
- Results-driven: Proven ability to deliver impactful, high-quality features that align with business and technical goals
What the job involves
- Minted seeks a passionate and experienced engineer to lead the architectural evolution of our Ordering Services team
- This role is pivotal in shaping the next generation of our Orders Platform, driving its transformation from a legacy monolithic system to a modern, scalable micro-services, and event-driven architecture
- You will spearhead key business functionalities, including cart, checkout, A/B Testing, transactions, and fraud detection
- As a technical leader, you will drive innovation, mentor team members, and ensure seamless collaboration with engineering, product, and leadership teams to achieve strategic objectives
- At Minted Engineering, we combine design with technology to create unique products that are both beautiful and co-created by our artist community and our customers
- Our engineers take on multiple roles and challenges not defined by titles, and we have a strong culture of mentorship and promotion from within, as well as project roadmaps that enable us to cross-train and learn from one another
- We are a metrics-driven organization committed to ensuring every project delivers measurable impact
- We prioritize balancing the development of new features with scaling our platform, all while remaining agile in a rapidly evolving environment
- Lead the architectural design, technical planning, and execution for the Orders Platform, with a primary focus on its decomposition from a monolith into a modern, event-driven micro-services ecosystem
- Work closely with other lead engineers to drive the strategic technical planning with a 12-18 month future view, centered around our migration to micro-services
- Develop and execute a strategic roadmap for the phased migration from our legacy monolithic system, applying best-practice patterns (e.g., Strangler Fig, Branch by Abstraction) to minimize risk and ensure business continuity
- Identify tooling for development, testing, and deployments that improve the development experience, specifically for a distributed architecture, and drive their implementation
- Oversee development processes, including system architecture, code quality, and deployment pipelines for new and existing services
- Architect and build resilient, scalable micro-services for core functionalities like cart management, payment processing, and fraud prevention, ensuring seamless integration and data consistency
- Enhance system performance and reliability through iterative improvements, leveraging data-driven insights and observability in a distributed environment
Our take
Minted is a design marketplace, sourcing creative content from a global community of artists, using technology and crowdsourcing to give consumers access to independent creatives unavailable through traditional retailers.
With the success of sites like Etsy enabling consumers to buy direct from artisans, Minted sets itself apart by holding monthly art and design challenges which are open for both submission and voting. The ‘crowd’ curates Minted’s product selection by rating products, and Minted utilizes analytics to evaluate votes. The winning designs go into production which is taken care of by Minted's fulfillment house and the designers receive a 6%-10% cut of the sales.
Its unique ‘design by upvoting’ business model has led to almost $300m in funding, with backing from Benchmark Capital and IDG Ventures. As contests draw in more designers, the company is looking to expand beyond Minted.com and into physical retail, finding new ways to use the designs and creating fresh income streams for themselves and their artists.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2018
$208m
SERIES E
Oct 2014
$38m
SERIES D
Total funding: $297.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mariam Naficy
(Executive Chairman & Co-Founder)Previously served as the company's Co-CEO. Previously Member of the Board Of Directors at Medium, Yelp, Polyvore. Founder & co-CEO at Eve.com for 2 years and Vice-President and General Manager at The Body Shop for 3 years.
Melissa Kim
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Associate at The Boston Consulting Group for 2 years and Manager - Corporate Strategy at eBay also for 2 years.
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