Staff Web Engineer, Warby Parker
$188.1-215k
Plus equity bonus
Prescription eyewear & sunglasses
Be an early applicant
Prescription eyewear & sunglasses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$188.1-215k
Plus equity bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire and impact the world with vision, purpose, and style.
Role
Who you are
- Backed by 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experienced building modern and performant frontend applications with or more modern client-side frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular, Ember) in a professional setting
- An expert in domain modeling and system design
- Someone with deep technical experience with cloud providers, distributed systems, and service-oriented architecture
- A clear, concise communicator with the ability to influence others
- Someone with a strong belief in accountability, who holds engineering teams to a high standard
- An expert in data modeling in one or more modern relational databases
- Someone with strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Able, willing, and just plain excited to learn new domains quickly
- Insatiably curious and passionate about innovation
- Not on the Office of Inspector General’s List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)
Desirable
- Direct involvement with open source software projects
- Experience optimizing the JavaScript performance of high-volume systems
What the job involves
- In this role you’ll take ownership of the development, design, testing strategy and standards of the Warby Parker web application
- You’ll also help establish best practices and guidance around all aspects of our technology in order to help build a best-in-class technology discipline
- Help build and design a roadmap for your engineering team to build highly scalable, observable, and reliable systems
- Drive the execution and delivery of this roadmap across the engineering organization, working closely with stakeholders, SREs, and other principal engineers
- Provide technical guidance and facilitate the process of engineering design reviews on migrations towards service-oriented architecture, changes to existing architecture, and making existing systems more scalable
- Build a metrics-driven operational culture support our practices for KPI measurement and review, as well as for logging, monitoring, alerting practices
- Propose and drive large improvements to business systems to achieve significant impact to our business
- Mentor and coach other engineers to be help solve technical challenges and grow overall technical prowesses
Our take
They say every great idea starts with a problem, and Warby Parker kept it simple - glasses were just too expensive. Inspired by the need to have great-looking frames that didn’t break the bank, the co-founders set out to disrupt the legacy-dominated eyewear market.
Going up against Luxottica was no easy feat. They are the name behind Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Persol, as well as licence holders with Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Armani, and many more. However, by circumventing traditional manufacturing methods, using in-house design, and engaging with customers directly, Warby Parker was able to provide high-quality and good-looking prescription glasses at a fraction of the cost.
The company's retail category disruption has led to it being one of the most successful direct-to-consumer brands of the early 21st century. Late 2021 saw Warby Parker debut an initial public offering (IPO), giving it the liquidity for the 10% footprint increase without stressing cash flow. Since then, it has found continued success and made a number of fund raises and high-profile collaborations to raise brand awareness and bring its affordable, stylish glasses to even more consumers.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2020
$120m
SERIES G
Apr 2020
$125m
SERIES F
Total funding: $866.5m
Company benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid Holidays
- Retirement savings plan with a company match
- Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
- Short-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Bereavement Support
- Education Reimbursement
- Free eyewear
- And more (just ask!)
Company HQ
South Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Hunt
(Director)Started out as an Investment Banker at Cain Brothers. Has extensive experience in VC, having worked at firms such as Highland Capital Partners and SV Life Sciences. Also founded the marketing company Elephant.
Neil Blumenthal
(Co-CEO)Has an MBA from the Wharton School. Is a Member of the Board of Directors at sweetgreen and Allbirds.
Dave Gilboa
(Co-CEO)Was an Associate at Allen & Company and worked as Special Assistant to the CEO of The TriZetto Group.
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