Senior Full Stack Engineer - Engineering Foundation (REMOTE)
Senior Full Stack Engineer - Engineering Foundation (REMOTE)
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Job Description
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer the ideal candidate will play a pivotal role within our squad of dedicated engineers contributing to the creation of software and services for the Discogs this position they will serve as a technical subject matter expert advancing our technology vision and promoting best practices in development and testing to support Discogs transformation and growth strategies. Their ability to effectively multi-task across various projects and quickly adapt to new areas of code even those outside their prior knowledge and experience will be essential. Additionally they will provide strong technical leadership and mentorship to enhance the skills and capabilities of their fellow team members fostering a collaborative and motivating environment across all squads.
Location
This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR WA CA CO TX IL
Compensation
Starting Base Salary: $120000 - $127500 yearly
Who We Are
Discogs is the largest crowd-sourced community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day millions of people use the Discogs Marketplace to connect learn about music and buy and sell vinyl records CDs and cassettes. As Discogs continues to grow we are looking for bright dedicated creative and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality critical thinking and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community
What Youll Accomplish
- Plan develop and deploy server-side and client-side software in sprint cycles.
- Observe debug and optimize production systems with thousands of concurrent users.
- Research new frontiers prototype implementations and share knowledge.
- Communicate openly and collaborate frequently with Product and Engineering teams to quickly deliver high quality products that maximize value to the Discogs ecosystem.
- Take responsibility over large complex features from concept to design to delivery with no guidance.
- Maintain rebuild and adapt legacy codebases alongside modernizing our stack.
- Assists team with estimation and prioritization of development efforts.
- Coaches and mentors other engineers by providing recommendations technical oversight code reviews and feedback.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
What Youll Contribute
Minimum Experience and Education
- 5 years of experience developing software solutions
- Building operating troubleshooting and optimizing production systems under load.
- Delivered software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks.
- Interface with relational databases using SQL.
- Using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC.
- Familiarity with Build systems DevOps and CI/CD procedures.
- Familiarity with cloud services.
- Thorough understanding of HTTP APIs.
- Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members.
- Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance.
- Experience completing a significant refactor of an existing software project.
- Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers.
- Thoroughly understands the business vision mission and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers.
- Working knowledge of taking a large complex project breaking it down into sub-tasks and completing those tasks as required.
- Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas.
- Bachelors degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university in mathcomputer science related field or equivalent work experience.
Preferred Experience
- Use of containerization and orchestration technologies Docker and Kubernetes.
- FastAPI React GraphQL Kafka Flask Redis Memcached
- AWS DataDog Cloudflare Workers WP Engine
- Microservices distributed/edge systems and event driven architectures.
- ADA / WCAG Compliance
Benefits
What We Provide
- Competitive compensation: salary plus performance-related bonus program
- 401(k) with employer match
- 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
- 4 weeks paid vacation increasing based on tenure
- 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
- 8 weeks paid parental leave including for adoption
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Annual professional and personal development allowance
- Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
- Flexible work location opportunities
- Employer matching toward charitable contributions
What We Believe In
Discogs mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community.
Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Applicants needing accommodation to apply should contact us at
Discogs does not promote job openings through text messaging. If you receive a text message claiming to offer a position at our company please disregard it as fraudulent. For a list of our actively open positions and to apply please visit the official Careers page on our website: you apply for this role you will be required to upload a resume cover letter and fill out a few questions regarding your application. Once submitted our hiring team will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. Whether you are successful or not we will store your application and data in our system for a maximum period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing this data and/or the period of time please contact us at and we will respond to you within 30 days.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
