About the Role

Engineers at Shift build things that matter and have a material impact to the company’s bottom line and the customer’s experience. In this role, you will drive exciting, meaningful projects, and help define our technical and product strategy. We move fast, have fun, and help each other out.

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineers to help us build the world's best e-commerce and operations platform to drive car sales. As a senior technical leader, you are critical to our business and technical prowess.  Some of the problems we're solving are ones that no one else is solving right now!  We are trail blazing in this fascinating new, hot industry!  

On top of tackling interesting technical and product challenges at a high growth company, you'll get to work with a strong engineering org.  We strive to provide guidance and mentorship from our most senior engineers while still enabling individual teams to take on and own complex technical problems. 

There is so much to discover, learn and do.

This is an opportunity to join a fantastic team at a hi-tech fast-paced Silicon Valley company which is transforming an entire industry. 

What you will do: 

• Be a key contributor to Shift’s tech stack and technical processes, working with engineers throughout the organization, partnering with Data Science and TechOps.
• Demonstrate best practices by delivering high quality testable maintainable code.
• Provide technical leadership for engineers with supportive but candid feedback in code reviews and architecture documents.
• Get core technology projects on the company roadmap. 
• Contribute to cross-team decisions to advance the tech stack and improve development velocity, quality, performance, and security.
• Participate in build v buy decisions.
• Participate in technical design, project planning and lead development of critical projects.

What you will bring:

• An undying passion for computers, web technologies and an optimistic attitude to make things better. 
• 10+ years building technically complex software for the web.
• Experience with Ruby and/or Go. Varied experience with functional and object oriented programming in many languages such as Go, Python, C/C++, Java, PHP. 
• Experience developing SPAs and server-side rendered web-apps. You should know when to use which approach and be able to teach others. React, Typescript and jQuery experience will set you apart.
• Strong experience with Postgres.
• Experience with deploying to AWS, GCP and using CDNs.
• Experience with monitoring and instrumentation tech and vendors such as Segment, New Relic, Datadog, Pingdom and PagerDuty.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience working in e-commerce.
• Experience building a platform.
• Familiarity with CRMs such as Salesforce Sales Cloud.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or Revel.
• Experience working at a startup.

About Shift

We’re a tech company who has built an e-commerce marketplace for customers to buy and sell used cars, all while having an experience that is fun, fair and accessible.  We’ve set out to transform a huge industry using cutting-edge technology, and bring transparency and convenience to the car buying and selling process. 

We aren’t stopping there. We bring that same transparency and convenience to car ownership too, with payments, maintenance, and insurance in one easy app.  At Shift, we’re building the tools that empower people to buy, own, and sell the cars that make life go.

Shift is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Shift is an equal opportunity employer. Shift prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Shift conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.