Fullstack Principal Engineer, Stitchfix
Payments & Client Trust
$157.8-232k
+ Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
Online personal styling
Open for applications
Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$157.8-232k
+ Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
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
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- 2+ years of experience in technical leadership - including driving technical decisions and guiding broader project goals
- Hands-on experience building and scaling resilient event-driven architectures at scale (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Golang, Postgres, Kafka, Node, React, AWS)
- You might have experience identifying and resolving fraudulent or abusive API traffic patterns
- You have the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical business partners
- You take initiative and operate with accountability
- You are respectful, empathetic, and humble
- You are passionate about guiding and supporting others' growth through various approaches such as mentoring, pairing, constructive feedback, and code reviews
- You are motivated by solving problems and finding creative client-focused solutions
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help shape the future of Stitch Fix’s Checkout, Payments, and Client Trust systems
- You will also be responsible for planning, architecting, building, and maintaining features and software in support of our new Stitch Fix future
- You will lead a team in designing solutions that directly impact Stitch Fix clients and collaborate to protect our clients and Stitch Fix from fraud
- You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to lead the technical discovery, decision-making, and execution of projects
- You will provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, timely feedback, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
- You will share the responsibility of directing the team’s investment in impactful directions
- You will contribute to a culture of technical collaboration and scalable, resilient systems
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Integrity
- Be an owner
- Raise the flag
- Keep equity at the center
- Innovation
- Put the client first
- Boldly create the future
- Solve at high speed
- Trust
- Win as a team
- Debate & commit
- Celebrate Stitch Fix grit
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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