Senior software engineering leader
Section
Location
At Webscale, we understand the evolving cloud technology landscape and the challenges that organizations face in harnessing its full potential. That’s why we’ve embarked on a mission to provide ecommerce businesses accessible cloud deployment tooling through our ecommerce hosting platform. To advance the capabilities of the platform, we’re looking to add an experienced engineer that will directly influence the success of the expanded product offering by contributing to all parts of the agile software development cycle, from design to release. The code they write will run as part of a pipeline that serves hundreds of millions of HTTP requests daily.
The ideal candidate will be both a hands-on leader and a mentor, who can provide technical guidance, drive innovation, and foster growth among junior engineers. This role requires a balance of leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to stay deeply involved in the codebase.
Culture
Our primary measure of progress is deploying working, peer-reviewed software multiple times a week. We are committed to clean, high-quality code and apply continuous attention to technical excellence with team-wide collaborations on design and implementation. We work at a fast pace that optimizes throughput, sustainable development, and deployment success.
Some core values of the team include:
- Progress is best delivered in small, incremental chunks.
- Debates, honest conversations, and collaboration make the team stronger.
- Accept that mistakes will be made and learn from them.
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical leader of one or more projects concurrently from our technical roadmap.
- Coaching and mentoring junior team members.
- Maintain, debug and enhance code with technologies like Ruby, Golang, gRPC, Typescript/Javascript, MySQL, docker, and Kubernetes.
- Flexibly work across a variety of different projects and codebases.
- Effectively manage projects from ideation to completion, working with stakeholders to scope requirements and working with the team to design solutions. When necessary, the engineer should be comfortable setting and meeting commitments.
- Ensure successful deployments through independent thorough code review and verification.
Tech stack
- Frontend: Angular, Svelte, React
- Backend: Ruby, Golang
- Cloud providers: AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Azure
- Database: MySQL
- Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, bash
- CI/CD: Jenkins
Qualifications Required:
- 8+ years of experience with a statically-typed language, an interpretative language and relational databases.
- 3+ years in a leadership role, managing and mentoring engineering teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience creating automations or control functions that coordinate across multiple services
- Deep experience with one or more of the elements of our tech stack.
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- History of technical leadership at a project or team-level.
- Solid understanding of HTTP and transport layer protocols.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to mentor engineers, manage stakeholder expectations, and foster collaboration across teams.
Bonus:
- Experience with Groovy and Jenkins libraries.
- Previous experience with Ruby (not rails).
- Experience in e-commerce platforms such as Magento, WooCommerce, or Showare
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with networking.
- Experience with bash and Linux system administration.
- Previous experience with Ruby, TypeScript, Golang and MySQL.
Benefits
- Base salary: $150,000 – $170,000
- Full benefits package, including company paid medical options and vision.
- 401(k) savings plan.
- Flexible Paid time off
About Webscale
Webscale is a unified observability and delivery platform provider that equips modern ecommerce business owners with deep insight into every facet of ecommerce infrastructure and user experience, while enabling their developers with powerful software to optimize and secure their storefronts. The Webscale platform supports any ecommerce application and can be deployed in any cloud, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Webscale powers Fortune 1000 brands including Dollar General, Unilever, Swarovski, Olympus, Regal Cinemas, and many more B2C and B2B ecommerce storefronts across 12 countries.
How to Apply:
Submit your resume to jobs@webscalenetworks.com, by Nov 1, 2024.
Apply