Staff Software Engineer, Ghost
$180-220k
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Inventory distribution optimization
Job no longer available
Inventory distribution optimization
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-220k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform how inventory is bought and sold.
Role
Who you are
- 7- 10 years as a software engineer at a high-growth startup
- Be a technical thought leader with proficiency in Ghost’s current tech stack: NestJS, Next.js, Typescript, postgreSQL, Redis, AWS
- Create a knowledge-sharing environment where code reviews and design discussions are the norm
- Speak up and contribute to collaborative technical discussions with leadership
- Deliver scalable technical solutions to solve business needs
- Solve complex technical problems and build scalable solutions for business/customer needs
- Lead and evangelize engineering best practices
- Produce high-quality code, perform code reviews, help with architecture and design, and introduce technical best practices (testing, monitoring, etc.)
- Influence and alignment - Ability to communicate technical ideas across teams
- Coach/mentor engineers as our team grows to pay it forward and align the team in a growth mindset
- Ability to listen: Shows genuine interest in understanding customers' needs, asks questions, and thinks answers through
- Effective communication: Brings you along for the ride, and you can follow a coherent message. Writes and speaks efficiently; doesn’t sugarcoat a message; you don’t feel like you have to interrupt to go to the next question
- Growth mindset: Eagerness to embrace unknown scenarios; bias towards learning
- Scrappiness: Enjoys taking initiative; doesn’t need to gather a team around them to get things done. Embrace a “done is better than perfect” mindset, knowing things can improve over multiple iterations
- An individual contributor: Hands on, collaborative, and proficient in their craft
- Data-driven: outcomes to validate their work
- Passion: Genuine interest in the problems we are solving
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who loves solving complex problems
- You will help us build our platform from the ground up to serve our growing customer ecosystem
- Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll be tasked to deliver outcomes by understanding the business needs and producing quality code to scale our existing business
- We will need you to collaborate and communicate effectively with engineering and product to meet milestones to build and ship systems to serve our customers
Our take
Excess inventory is one of the biggest pain points for modern retailers. Ghost solves this problem by making it easier for retailers to buy and sell excess inventory discreetly and sustainably.
With retailers wasting around $500 billion a year on excess inventory, demand for solutions like Ghost's is sky-high. The company has also made good on this demand, emerging from stealth mode in 2022 and about $66 million in funding to date. Ghost, which functions in much the same way as eBay, has benefited hugely from its founder's prior experience in the apparel industry.
Ghost's clear focus on sustainability and discretion has broad market appeal, especially for large-scale retailers looking to reduce waste and improve their public image. If Ghost can continue to attract such clients, it could scale at an impressive pace in the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$40m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88m
Company HQ
Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Josh Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously worked as Senior Director of UEG Ventures, and was VP of Digital at Buck Mason.
Dee Murthy
(Co-Founder)They are also the Co-Founder of Young & Reckless and Five Four Group.
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