Senior Engineer Shopper Backend

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Shopper Backend team your day involves collaborating with a cross-disciplinary squad to design build and deploy high-performance multi-region services using tools like Go Copilot Postgres Redis and Kafka. Operating with zero travel requirements you will take deep ownership of our production environment driving architectural decisions and performing non-functional requirements and analyzing metrics to ship real-world products that directly empower shoppers nationwide. You will stand out by leading complex technical challenges autonomously while actively mentoring peers sharing solutions across the org and shaping the engineering culture of our high performing team.

• Software Engineering Experience: 4 years of software development experience operating with a high degree of autonomy and collaboration to independently design deploy and own complex production services from end to end in a cross-functional Agile environment.

• Distributed Systems Projects: Proven experience building and scaling multi-region distributed architectures microservices or SOA systems using languages such as Go design patterns and Kafka event driven messaging.

• Data Modeling & Optimization: A track record of designing distributed data models and actively identifying and improving poor-performing code or database queries with Postgres Snowflake and caching technologies like Redis.

• API Design: Hands-on experience designing building and maintaining RESTful APIs that successfully apply functional and object-oriented programming paradigms to serve high-volume customer traffic.

• Mentorship & Collaboration: Demonstrated experience mentoring junior or peer engineers leading design sessions gathering input from multiple voices providing code reviews and clearly communicating complex architectural concepts to cross-disciplinary teams.

• 4 years Backend REST services.
• 4 years relational or no-sql databases. Distributed database design experience preferred.
• Caching such as REDIS.
• 2 years messaging queuing such as Kafka.
• Must have CS principles design patterns such as Gang of Four
• 2 years driving non-functional requirements for performance/load testing and scaling infrastructure.
• Observability: logging metrics
• On-call experience 24/7 for high ownership on production issues. This team rotation every 3-4 weeks.

This list includes key skills used in this job but is not inclusive of all skills needed for the role. Please see any required education below.

Back-End Development Distributed Systems Go Programming Language PostgreSQLBachelors Degree or equivalent experience Required

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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 5000 U.S. cities. Shipt was founded and is headquartered in Birmingham Alabama. For more information please visit Shipts company site at .

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Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical dental vision and more. Employees may enroll in our companys 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.