Principal software Engineer

March 20

Bluecore

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Intelligently connect casual shoppers to the products that transform them into lifetime customers.

Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • eCommerce Retention • Personalization • Audiences

201 - 500

Description

• Design, architect, and build performant, reliable, high-quality systems at scale within one or more engineering domains. Provide significant engineering contributions even in domains with less expertise. • Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and cross-functional engineers to deliver high quality products. • Function as a sought-out mentor and leader for a technical domain or set of domains across the company. Act as a role model for every engineer in the organization and promote Bluecore engineering values to the company. • Increase the technical capabilities and upper limits of your own areas of responsibility and expertise, as well as those of your associated team members. Teach sessions, write documentation, and actively mentor to decrease the ramp up time of new and existing team members. • Plan, design, and roadmap extremely large and complex projects with difficult and intertwined dependencies that push the boundary of what the engineering team and the entire business is capable of. Promote coding standards, styles, and design principles across the organization. • Proactively identify technology opportunities for the company, and push technical ideas, proposals, and plans to the entire organization and beyond through presentations, technical specs, blog posts, and documentation. • Lead company-wide technical strategy and decisions and facilitate progress by building consensus amongst senior engineering leadership and company leadership. Advise and advocate for best tools, methods, and approaches for the entire engineering organization. • Evangelize Bluecore Engineering internally and externally, including leading external initiatives to promote Bluecore Engineering in the wider community.

Requirements

• 14+ years of relevant professional experience, preferably within a similar industry or technology space. • Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Sciences, Electronics, Mathematics, or relevant field/equivalent work experience. • Significant programming expertise. Experience with languages such as Go, Python, C++ or Java. • 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP. • Deep understanding and domain expertise in building large, complex distributed and/or data-driven systems from inception to launch. Extensive experience pushing multiple product releases and/or feature iterations, with an eye towards scalability, reliability, cost, and optimization. • Leading expert in one or more engineering domains, such as stream processing, big data, feature development or product engineering, and regularly contributes to technical communities external to Bluecore. • Experience executing large refactors in the codebase that impact cleanliness and efficacy of product or system-wide infrastructure. Experience leading the redesign or migration of a codebases, feature set, or system architecture ideal. • Capable of owning engineering and company level issues or gaps, and successfully planning and executing towards resolution, all while continuously identifying and exploring additional opportunities and proactively preventing upcoming risks. • Experience developing technical roadmaps and estimates that have pushed product and business growth over several quarters. Has a proven track record of successfully completing work that spans multiple teams and quarters, creating large impacts to business success. • Experience excelling within a high-growth, startup environment or building out a new team/function within a larger company preferred. • Experience with technical team mentorship, including guiding other engineers to become more effective technical leaders and providing feedback on best practices in code and design. • Able to identify your team's dependencies on other areas.

Benefits

• Bluecore is recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor • Opportunity to work with a Tech-First mentality and innovative Engineering organization • Competitive salary and benefits package • Chance to work with well-known retail brands