Staff Engineer, eCommerce
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Job Location:
Cape Town - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
MOO set out to shake up the world of print back in 2006. And weve come a long way since. Today were a 400 strong team (were thinking of getting matching jackets) who create print and digital products for companies of all sizes from Google and AirBnB to the guy who makes those amazing prints you found at a craft fair.
Our global HQ is in London UK while we also have premises in the US youll find us in Boston MA as well as East Providence RI and Denver CO and now in Cape Town South Africa!
You will join our eCommerce engineering group the preorder domain that powers browsing buying and account experiences for customers worldwide. Today the group includes squads such as Browse UFOUpper Funnel Optimisation) Build Buy and User Engagement partnering closely with Product and Design. This role reports to the Head of Engineering eCommerce.
We are migrating from legacy PHP/Java services running on Kubernetes to a MACHaligned cloudnative stack on AWS with and serverless patterns. Priorities include incremental cutovers data synchronisation strong ADR governance and improving developer experience to speed up safe delivery
*Please note - this role will be based in Cape Town South Africa*
About You
- Passionate about solving big technology problems(solution architect mindset)
- A good mentor and coach for engineers of all experience levels (bringing others on the journey)
- Experienced as an engineer across a range of languages and tools to support your team
- Deliveryfocused keeping our internal and external customers in mind
- Open honest and proactive in communicating with your team colleagues and leadership and comfortable collaborating with stakeholders in working groups
- Familiarity with commerce platform components: CMS PIM catalogs checkout flows payments (PSPs)
What Youll Do
- Provide technical leadership for key eCommerce initiatives across Browse Catalog Checkout Pricing and Payments aligning designs and roadmaps with business objectives and OKRs
- Design and evolve services and integrations in a cloudnative eventdriven architecture on AWS using API Gateway Lambda SNS/SQS DynamoDB Step Functions and Workflow Definitions (Temporal) where appropriate
- Shape our headless web stack with React and TypeScript deployed on Vercel (Edge Network ISR/SSR) with service backends primarily in Python and JavaJob DescriptionStaff Engineer eCommerce2
- Create clear technical artefacts: ADRs system designs sequence and dataflow diagrams and fitness functions
- Improve developer experience and reliability: CI/CD observability test strategy SLOs and incident learning loops; infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Create clear technical artefacts: ADRs system designs sequence and dataflow diagrams and fitness functions
- Improve developer experience and reliability: CI/CD observability test strategy SLOs and incident learning loops; infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Partner with Product and Design on discovery prioritisation and incremental delivery; frame tradeoffs and risks
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Team
- Responsibilities: Mentorship and development of engineers. Help highlight capability gaps and propose ways forward. Consistently align deep technical work to business strategy. Act as a bridge between engineering product and stakeholders communicating technical decisions and direction. Promote and uphold MOO values and a culture of innovation collaboration and inclusivity across teams.
- Accountabilities: Ensure team alignment to technical strategy and how it ladders to business strategy. Resolve technical disagreements within and across teams. Identify and nurture highpotential engineers for future leadership roles.
- Delivery
- Responsibilities: Lead the technical planning and execution of key initiatives ensuring alignment to business objectives. Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies. Ensure deliverables meet quality scalability and reliability standards. Do the glue work to bring the right people together and remove blockers.
- Accountabilities: Ontime delivery balancing speed and quality. Provide regular stakeholder updates on status risks and mitigations. Drive continuous improvement to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Ensure architectural adherence and contribution to the wider plan and goals.
- Technical architecture and developer experience
- Responsibilities: Contribute to overall architecture making strategic decisions that balance shortterm needs with longterm goals. Ensure high standards for code quality and engineering practices. Work with teams to consistently remove blockers on the path to production.
- Accountabilities: Ensure architectural integrity across owned systems and components. Proactively manage technical debt so it doesnt hinder future scalability or innovation. Drive innovation by adopting technologies and approaches that improve our speed to market.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with headless/MACH architectures React infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
- Experience modernising legacy systems alongside building new capabilities
Whats it like to work at MOO
MOOs the kind of workplace where you can really be yourself. Dye your hair purple. Hit the sofa with your laptop. Whatever helps you feel comfortable and happy at work. We want to help you grow in your career and set you up for success while also recognising the importance of a healthy work/life balance.
Thats why we offer 19 days holiday rising by one day for each year here (for 5 years) a matched pension scheme and paid parental leave. Well offer you private healthcare and life insurance. We also offer flexible work schedules with hybrid and remote working for certain roles.
Diversity Statement
We are working hard to create a representative inclusive and super-friendly team because we know that different experiences perspectives and backgrounds make for a better workplace. And that creates a better experience for our customers. MOO doesnt discriminate on the basis of race colour religion or belief gender national origin age sexual orientation marital status disability or any other protected class.
As a design and technology company we have a desire and a responsibility to build a business that represents the world around us. So we strive to create a values-driven purposeful and highly empowered organisation that we are all proud to work for. And we are committed to continuous investment in building an open and inclusive environment welcoming a diverse audience of candidates who see themselves working and thriving at MOO. Therefore wed like to invite you to complete this optional survey to help us evaluate our inclusion and diversity efforts. Completing this form is entirely voluntary and if you decide not to it wont in any way affect your job application. We keep the information separate from your application and it is kept secure and confidential it is only used to better our inclusion and diversity submitting this information you consent to MOOs processing of it for these purposes.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Online printing services to create high-quality business cards, stickers, postcards, and more. Professional custom printing by MOO, the best online print shop.
