Staff Engineer

8 Months ago • 7 Years + • Backend Development • $92,036 PA - $220,842 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Engineer, you'll design, build, and optimize systems powering Shipt's core functionalities. You'll leverage your experience with Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka in a microservices architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure stability, scalability, and performance of applications. Strong testing fundamentals and leadership experience are essential.
Must have:
  • Golang experience
  • Microservice architecture
  • Postgres, Redis, Kafka
  • Testing fundamentals
Good to have:
  • Agile practices
  • Domain knowledge
  • Mentoring others
  • Code optimization
Perks:
  • Medical, Dental
  • 401k plan

Job Details

Impact

As a Staff Engineer on the Order Management team at Shipt, you will be responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the systems and services that power the Shipt's core systems. You will be collaborating with staff, principal engineers and product team to drive the architecture delivery for the success of business goals. Additionally, you should be able to work in an Agile environment and follow agile practices.
Every day you will work on a team of 4-5 engineers to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain application code using Golang, Postgres, Redis and Kafka in a micro-services architecture. You will work with product and cross-functional teams to address various challenges in supporting core systems, ensuring the stability, scalability and performance of applications. Additionally, you will actively participate in design discussions with both your team and other development teams.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

  • 7+ years of software development experience building large, scalable, microservice applications in the cloud.

  • You know how to develop backend software applications using object-oriented programming languages.

  • Experience with Golang, Postgres, Redis and Kafka.

  • You are passionate about software development, learning different domain knowledge, and solving problems.

  • You enjoy mentoring and learning from other engineers

  • You are a self-directed individual that enjoys freedom in your work.

  • You are able to identify and improve poor performing code or database queries.

  • Strong knowledge of testing fundamentals; unit, integration, e2e, etc. 

  • Experience leading technical efforts to improve app maintainability, stability, and performance.

  • Have a high degree of ownership for all aspects of their services

Work Arrangement

Shipt considers candidates located near a Shipt office or workspace in Birmingham, San Francisco, or Minneapolis to be hybrid, which means that they have the flexibility to work from home (with leader approval) or at a Shipt office in order to facilitate the ability to innovate, collaborate, and spark team connections. In-office expectations will vary by role and leader.  Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.

About Shipt

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Shipt connects customers to the things they want from the stores they love, retail businesses to more satisfied customers, and workers to new earning opportunities.

At Shipt, we aim to put our team first to boost a sense of belonging, spark opportunities for growth, provide unique benefits and commit to giving back to our communities in ways that make life better, both personally and professionally. We understand that our service, our culture, and our connection to our communities are only made better by every single person who shows up to work here every day.  Learn More.

Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corporation and available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information, please visit Shipt’s company site at Shipt.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need any accommodations.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.  Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.  Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.

Pay range:

Metro Areas of Boston, District of Columbia, Seattle and New York City: 

$110,421-$220,842

Metro Areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco: 

$115,763.35-$220,842

All other locations:

$92,036-$184,071

Please note that the salary range above is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.

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About The Company

Hi, we’re Shipt! We’re a retail-tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. Just as Shipt is an industry leader in outstanding service and care, our parent company Target is beloved across the country for their focus on bringing joy to families.Together, we've created a synergy that results in an elevated, personalized experience for all our customers, team members, and partners. Shipt reaches more than 60 million households across the U.S. To learn more about us, visit Shipt.com.

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