Senior Software Engineer 1, Picksy Services

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer 1, Picksy Services

Picksy is our next-generation product discovery platform connecting shoppers with the things they love across thousands of retail partners. Users save, organize, and share products they're excited about - and our platform turns those signals into a deeply personalized shopping experience. This team owns the foundational product data, services, applications, and integrations that power the Picksy experience.

Hybrid 3x per week

In-office Expectations:
This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

• 50% Feature implementation:
  Work closely with stakeholders, product owners, and tech leadership to plan and create new services, features, and enhancements.
• 15% Architecture:
  Lead technical design of new and expanding systems; drive identification and prioritization of technical debt; proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost.
• 15% Maintenance:
  Own production services end-to-end; investigate, troubleshoot, and implement fixes for bugs and operational issues.
• 10% Review, Mentorship & Testing:
  Lead code reviews and mentor other engineers, setting the bar for code quality; work closely with quality-assurance engineers to facilitate feature testing and contribute to automated test coverage.
• 10% Requirements Analysis:
  Consume non-technical user stories, providing feedback when necessary, translating into technical documentation, and/or using as a basis for implementation.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.
• Experience:
  
  6+ years of relevant professional technology experience.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:
You have practical knowledge of modern development techniques and trends, and you are eager to continue learning. You have:
Demonstrated deep understanding of REST, service architecture, monitoring, and the tenets of horizontal scalability. Experience developing complex and highly available services running in a production environment with SLAs. Extensive knowledge of object-oriented and functional software design patterns, including those commonly used within large web application platforms. Proven experience developing and owning production services and applications deployed in AWS or GCP, leveraging containers, continuous integration, and codified infrastructure.

Extensive experience using Node.js, Type Script, and the NestJS framework, with some knowledge of Java and GraphQL. Familiarity with HTML/CSS and frontend web frameworks such as Vue or Nuxt (strongly preferred). Knowledge of No

SQL data stores, graph databases, indexing, distributed locking, media transformation, and search engines such as Elasticsearch or Solr. Experience working in an Agile environment, translating user stories into technical tasks and estimating effort effectively. Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Experience leading architecture discussions, advocating for your approach, and mentoring team members. Motivation to learn new technologies and grow as a developer.

Travel Required (Approximate): 0%

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Salary:
New York: $150,000 - $175,000

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees.

Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Prescription drug coverage
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• Adoption or surrogate assistance
• Donation matching
• Tuition reimbursement
• Basic life insurance
• Basic accidental death & dismemberment
• Supplemental life insurance
• Supplemental accident insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Short term and long term…