Backend Software Engineer, Recharge

Storefront

Salary not provided
SQL
React
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
JavaScript
Python
Redis
Terraform
Splunk
Vue.js
Sentry
MySQL
Flask
REST API
FastAPI
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
Recharge

Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce

Open for applications

Recharge

Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce

501-1000 employees

B2BFinancial ServicesSaaSAPICloud Computing

Open for applications

Salary not provided
SQL
React
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP
JavaScript
Python
Redis
Terraform
Splunk
Vue.js
Sentry
MySQL
Flask
REST API
FastAPI
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

501-1000 employees

B2BFinancial ServicesSaaSAPICloud Computing

Company mission

To create a world where payments are frictionless, and help merchants grow faster.

Role

Who you are

  • You love remote work, but not working alone. You love not commuting to work, but you also love collaborating to clarify, confirm, theorize, figure out, and decide on solutions to problems
  • You love tackling challenges on different fronts like code, infrastructure, documentation, and evangelizing new libraries and services to stakeholders
  • You love the fast-paced nature of the eCommerce world
  • You love rapid iterative design, testing, and development while gaining context and understanding along the way. You can recognize when you know enough to take the next useful step to deliver value
  • You are good at breaking up work into near, mid, and long-term phases so you can deliver value all along the way as you work toward a clear overall direction
  • You are good with working around existing systems and developing creative solutions to new and difficult problems
  • Execution: You want to get things done. You’re energized by getting product in front of customers, and prefer an iterative approach with regular deliveries to your stakeholders versus all-at-once major releases. You hold yourself accountable for shipping regularly
  • You understand customer feedback is key in building the right thing and are flexible to handle changes in direction
  • Engineering excellence: You have experience in a variety of contexts, working with frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data
  • You’re confident reviewing PRs, discussing optimization strategies, and getting into the details as needed to make sure a high-quality product goes out the door
  • Communication: You are a sound communicator across multiple mediums, including in-person, video, chat, and written documentation
  • Pragmatic: You productively work with your leadership, your product counterparts, and your team to deal with the realities on the ground on a day-to-day basis. You know plans change and markets change, and you believe you have what it takes to respond effectively to them
  • Kindness and respect: You believe that there’s a right way to be part of the team, and it comes from having respect for yourself, your team, your leaders, and your stakeholders. You engage in meaningful exchanges, valuing feedback and diverse perspectives
  • Willingness to learn and experiment to reach a desired outcome
  • A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems
  • 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 promptly
  • Ability to work remote-first in a high-growth company
  • We need our engineers to be versatile, display ownership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward
  • Exceptional analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Willingness to develop, maintain, and debug product features throughout the stack
  • Demonstrable expertise with JavaScript, Python, and Cloud Platforms such as GCP or AWS
  • 3+ years of relevant backend development experience across back-end such as Python, Google services like Cloud Functions, MySQL, Redis
  • Familiarity with micro-service architecture
  • 1+ years of experience with a major modern Web UI framework (e.g. ReactJS, Vue)
  • Demonstrable cloud computing experience
  • Prior e-commerce experience preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or other STEM-related field or equivalent work experience

Desirable

  • Experience in e-commerce
  • Experience building within Shopify’s ecosystem

What the job involves

  • The Storefront Team at Recharge is responsible for storefront widgets and backend services
  • These inject Recharge features; Subscriptions, Bundles, and Loyalty benefits into our merchant’s checkout experience
  • They handle 2.5M+ sessions per day and are some of our highest scale components in our platform
  • Checkout performance is critical to driving merchant revenue. As a result our widgets require high performance and stability
  • In addition to the front-end widgets, the team is also responsible for supporting back-end services consisting of SQL/document databases, a CDN, event-driven messaging systems and REST APIs
  • Live by and champions all of our core values (#accountability, #collaboration, #iteration, and #details)
  • Build, maintain, and debug high-impact, high-performance, high-scale products enabling our merchants storefront experiences
  • Perform thorough code reviews and provide useful 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
  • Contribute to cultivating a positive team environment
  • Demonstrate a willingness to lean in as needed when duty calls

Our take

Ecommerce 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 eCommerce 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 forwards.

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.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-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 values

  • Day one - Stay ambitious, open-minded, optimistic, and ready to learn. Every day counts towards building the future.
  • Ownership - You are accountable to yourself, your peers, and our customers. You believe that your work impacts the mission.
  • Empathy - You anticipate the needs of others. You communicate clearly and with care, always striving to do the right thing.
  • Humility - Approach every task with an open mind, learning with and from your peers. You value effective collaboration above rank.

Company HQ

Mid-City, Santa Monica, CA

Leadership

UCLA Economics graduate who worked as an Analyst at Deloitte before co-founding three companies, all centred on commerce and payments.

Studied Mechanical Engineering at UCLA, before co-founding a number of companies, including Opportunity Green.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Recharge

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Patrick Sutton (Sr. Director, DEI & Employee Experience)

  • You Belong: At Recharge, we are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion. One where everyone feels they belong. Our culture is a result of our behaviors, our commitment to our values, and our own personal commitment
  • Specific initiatives: Currently we have our inclusion hq slack channel that has created a community that will provide a sense of belonging on diverse topics that are impacting marginalized communities and groups from around the world. It’s a highly engaged community channel and it will help bridge any blindspots that we uncover when learning about other communities

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