Gopuff

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Gopuff • US
GoJava Remote
Gopuff’s engineering team is building solutions to dramatically change the way people purchase their daily goods. We provide the modern-day solution to meet customers' immediate everyday needs with products ranging from snacks and ice cream to household goods and beer, at the click of a button. In addition to direct to consumer delivery, Gopuff offers our leading fulfillment network as a service to other companies.

We are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer who is excited about creating innovative solutions to make life effortless for our customers! The kind of people we are looking for want to create an end to end shopping experience that will delight our customers, enable partners to expand their reach through unique brand experiences, and bring new concepts to life from the ground up alongside some of the biggest and most recognizable companies in the world. In short, we are looking for people who are eager to help create the future of Gopuff!

As a senior principal engineer, you will build and own the platforms that our systems run on. You will build high scale, high throughput APIs to serve millions of customers. You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to improve the UX for our customers searching and browsing for products on Gopuff.

Your primary responsibility will be to drive the technical architecture and design of our business domains. The right candidate will have the technical aptitude to drive good technology choices through collaboration with empowered teams. Success in this role will be measured by the delivery of business critical results and impact to the engineering department. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently great experiences within our engineering team.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead cross functional projects across multiple teams impacting the success of the larger organization
  • Lead technical discussions, design/architect and implement solutions to scale
  • Support standard development practices across multiple teams, including idiomatic syntax, design patterns, and Test driven development
  • Evangelize impactful improvements in our technologies
  • Scope, decompose, and organize projects for multiple teammates. Delegate tasks and coordinate teammates to bring those projects to completion with minimal oversight. Generate time estimates with reasonable accuracy to help determine project timelines.
  • Trace bugs across the entire software stack, including into the OS, libraries, virtual machine and compiler if necessary
  • Implement and Monitor analytics to ensure the correctness of the business process
  • Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
  • Promote and support GoPuff Engineering’s culture of inclusion and diversity.
  • Minimum Qualifications:

  • 10+ years engineering experience with a proven track record as an engineer building scalable publicly facing web sites preferably in start-up environments or early stage companies
  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or related field)
  • Proven experience in a senior engineering role with increasing responsibility
  • Experience leading technical discussions including evaluation and design of technical solutions
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Need to effectively communicate strategy, technical direction, priorities and collaborate with other engineering leads.
  • Demonstrated success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor a team, and lead without direction.
  • Proficiency with SQL, Postgres, Java, Go (golang), and/or nodejs
  • An in-depth and hands on knowledge of data structures, algorithms and modern web and/or cloud technologies