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Senior Full Stack Engineer

Roberts Recruiting
On-site
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
$120 - $150 USD yearly

We're leading the movement toward healthier personal care by curating only the best (healthy, proven, pure, pleasing) products on our websiteΒ and in a growing number of stores across the country. Together we’re making widespread change in the wildly unregulated and unhealthy beauty industry. Want to be part of our mission to change the world?

Do you enjoy building smart, scalable applications that leverage the best technologies for disparate functionalities? Creating and maintaining flexible data models that power real-time business intelligence and automation? Working collaboratively across functional groups to stay in touch with the challenges you’re working to solve for customers and internal stakeholders? We’re looking for an experienced, proficient engineer who shares these passions and can bring their own insights and experience to our quickly growing company.

As a SeniorΒ Full Stack Engineer,Β you will work on projects and applications that touch all aspects of our business. Your responsibilities will include: maintaining the existing architecture but also contributing to the vision and evolution of the platform as our company grows and scales quickly. By implementing efficient APIs, well-thought-out libraries, extensible schemas and data models, and performant analytics tooling you will enable the strengths of single stack contributors. You will help develop the frameworks to maintain and scale a beautiful, fast UI. With your knowledge of the full ecosystem and the interrelated nature of each microservice, you will be an important source of communication between front-end and back-end team members, facilitating smooth and efficient integration of the assets that make up the stack.

Responsibilities

  • Ongoing development contribution to all applications groups
  • Performance monitoring and optimization
  • Production application deployments
  • Customization of frameworks, packages, and plugins
  • Component consistency and re-use
  • Code review and feedback to and from contributing team members
  • Working closely with the project management team to provide engineering perspective on feature specification, feasibility, and time estimations

Skills and requirements

  • 6+ years experience in software engineering
  • 2+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails
  • 2+ years of experience in Node
  • 2+ years of experience with React
  • Open to new concepts, ideas, and languages
  • Ability to work in a team environment at a fast-paced, early-stage, growing company
  • Experienced and comfortable with agile development methodologies
  • Ecommerce experience a plus

Some of what we currently use

  • Ruby on Rails
  • React, Redux, Webpack
  • Solidus
  • Node
  • Looker (LookML)
  • GraphQL API (Apollo, Weaver)
  • Postgres
  • DBT
  • Redis/PubSub
  • Contentful
  • Cangaroo
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • Slack

Your first few weeks

  • You’ll familiarize yourself with our architecture, application microservices, data models, managed services and the development team methodologies (consistency, maintainability, performance, re-use)
  • Begin reviewing and contributing to development across the stack to understand the role each segment plays and identify opportunities for improvements and efficiencies we might apply in the future