Staff Backend Software Engineer, OpenStore
Shopify business acquisition company
Open for applications
Shopify business acquisition company
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide life-changing liquidity to ecommerce entrepreneurs.
Role
Who you are
- You like to build and ship. You value iteration, speed and progress over perfection. You choose to be optimistic but have a plan. You think strategically about prioritization while constantly delivering to unlock feedback and new directions
- You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are highly self motivated to do right by those internal and external and foster a growth mentality to achieve both
- You are analytically rigorous. You have a bias towards using data and analyses to make decisions. You have interest in measuring the performance of your features and understanding their contribution to company KPIs
- You are collaborative, organized, and thoughtful. You actively solicit feedback and are flexible to getting things done individually or through teammates you influence. You embrace intellectual rigor as a feature of improvement, not a relationship bug
- You are curious: You possess a desire to learn and explore new ideas. You like to ask insightful questions and explore innovative solutions. You are not satisfied with surface-level answers, but like to uncover underlying principles and insights
- You are an owner: You take full responsibility for your work. You see challenges as opportunities and take initiative to drive results. Your focus is not only on fulfilling your role but also on contributing to the broader goals and success of the team. You proactively identify issues, propose solutions, and follow through to ensure successful outcomes
- 8+ years of prior software engineering experience
- You strive for technical excellence in your domain
- You have an interest and/or track record to building scaled systems that tackle difficult problems
- You exemplify a winning team oriented mentality
- Familiarity with or willingness to learn TypeScript and Kotlin stack
- Familiarity with the Shopify ecosystem is a nice-to-have
What the job involves
- Join OpenStore as a Staff Software Engineer where you'll play a crucial role in shaping and building our e-commerce platform
- You will be immersed in ambitious projects that challenge and enhance your engineering craftsmanship and excellence
- Collaborate with a team of exceptional engineers to define and execute the technical aspects of our vision
- Work closely with engineers of all levels and contribute to building the best e-commerce engine in the world
- Take initiative in identifying and exploiting opportunities that significantly benefit the company
- Design, develop, ship, and maintain complex systems independently and/or alongside other engineers as peers
- Contribute to the future architecture of key systems and frameworks, balancing innovation and reliability
- Help develop a technical vision and roadmap that generate massive business value and optionality for our cross-functional teams and contribute to such across the entire company
- Identify and bring to life tools and over forms of leverage to be consumed by the company; including helping to decide when to build systems to increase our in-house leverage versus selecting from externally available 3rd party tools
- Partner with and wear multiple hats across product, design, engineering and operations
Our take
Founded in spring 2021, OpenStore helps entrepreneurs looking to sell their Shopify businesses. The platform buys businesses directly, making automated bid offers within 24 hours of a company submitting their details, and closing the deal in as little as 1 week with no transaction fees.
This is an improvement on legacy brokerage services, which typically take a hefty cut and can make for slow sales. It is likely to prove appealing to the 80% of small Shopify sellers reportedly amenable to acquisition. With the hefty investment they raised within months of being founded, which nearly tripled by winter, they are swiftly onboarding talent to scale up and refine their model.
It’s a model that sees OpenStore follow in the footsteps of other holding companies like Thrasio, who provide a similar service for Amazon brands and have enjoyed significant success. The concern here is whether or not OpenStore can hold its own against rivals turning their hands to the Shopify space, especially as this business model has been adopted by many new players like Pattern Brands and Perch. That being said, OpenStore appears to be keeping its head above the water, having closed a funding round of $32 million led by Lux Capital in September 2022.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
494% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$32m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $137m
Company HQ
Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL
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Leadership
Matt Lanter
(Head of Product)Matt has previoudly been Chief of Staff at Founders Fund to Keith Rabois. Before this, they served as Engineering Manager at OpenDoor, and Technical Lead at Facebook.
Jeremy Wood
(Head of Engineering)Previously worked in Engineering at One Kings Lane and Google.
Michael Rubenstein
(President)Previously Founder & General Manager of DoubleClick Ad Exchange (which later became part of Google). Since then, has been on Board of Directors at IAB and President & Board of Directors at AppNexus (later rebranded as Xandr).
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