Software Engineer, Stitchfix
Inventory
$103.4-152k
This position is eligible for an annual cash award depending on employee and company performance
Online personal styling
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Online personal styling
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$103.4-152k
This position is eligible for an annual cash award depending on employee and company performance
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
- You bring 2–5 years of backend engineering experience delivering production services; familiarity with e-commerce, logistics, SaaS, or platform-oriented systems is a plus
- You’re fluent in at least one modern systems language—our core stack is Go and Ruby—and have proven skill with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL), plus a knack for picking up new technologies fast
- You have solid CS foundations (data structures, concurrency, networking) and you are comfortable analyzing performance on tier-1, high-traffic APIs
- You write clean, test-driven code and you leave the codebase clearer, better-documented, and easier to observe than you found it
- You ship with confidence—using CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, canary releases, and swift rollbacks to deploy safely and keep our performance metrics healthy
- You’ve run production services on a major cloud platform—AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar—and are comfortable with modern observability stacks like Datadog
- You have familiarity with event-driven or streaming architectures—Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc
- You enjoy digging through unfamiliar services, logs, and metrics to find and fix root causes fast
- You are a clear communicator and a collaborative teammate: you translate technical trade-offs into business terms, give/receive thoughtful code reviews, and work easily with product and ops
- You exhibit a strong growth mindset: you actively seek feedback, mentor where you can, and share knowledge to raise the whole team’s bar
What the job involves
- The Stitch Fix Inventory and Fulfillment Innovation team is looking for a bright and kind Software Engineer to join us as we revolutionize how Stitch Fix creates and manages inventory assortments to serve every client’s unique style
- Our work is core to Stitch Fix’s biggest ambitions for the next decade: building innovative inventory models and fulfillment methods that dramatically expand our ability to serve an infinite range of personal styles
- You'll help us move rapidly from scrappy proof-of-concept releases to scalable, production-ready systems
- This role will collaborate closely with partners across merchandising, operations, finance, algorithms, and data platform engineering to power our business with low-latency, highly available, and accurate inventory systems
- Help build the future of inventory at Stitch Fix, balancing fast experimental development with long-term scalable system design
- Join a team that values mutual trust, learning, and personal growth
- Work in a collaborative remote environment, using tools like GitHub, Slack, and Zoom extensively
- Participate in a culture of code reviews, pairing, and open dialogue to help each other grow
- Gain exposure to high-value business processes and directly contribute to Stitch Fix’s client experience
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
-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 HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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