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Staff Engineer
| Company | FIGS |
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| Location | Santa Monica, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $190000 – $200000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years building backend services and platforms
- 5+ years of experience build cloud native architectures in AWS
- Experience working with SQL or other relational databases
- Experience with Java and Microservice Paradigms
- Strong computer science and software design fundamentals
- Awareness of common cloud security vulnerabilities and how to avoid them
- Demonstrated ability to architect scalable and maintainable service-oriented infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Work as an engineer on projects with a small team or independently as we grow
- Partner with our product and engineering teams to brainstorm creative solutions to address business challenges
- Build scalable, maintainable, and performant backend services
- Build and maintain services that help us integrate and aggregate core e-commerce data from our various internal and vendor platforms
- Improve our operational efficiency by automating core processes
- Provide clear and constructive feedback via code reviews
- Work with fellow engineers to maintain the quality, readability, and integrity of our codebase
- Participate in on-call schedules and writing reliable code so that none of us never have to be called
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working alongside Shopify, Spree, BigCommerce or other e-commerce platforms
- Experience working alongside fulfillment and warehouse management platforms
- Experience with Docker, CDK, Terraform, Shell and other standard tooling
- Experience setting up CI/CD build processes and pipelines
- Experience working with content management systems, especially Contentful
