Tech Lead - eCommerce Platform Team (LA)
About Route
Route is helping people discover and celebrate the world's brands through a completely reimagined e-commerce marketplace that directly connects and empowers both consumers and brands. Route’s unique platform takes a holistic approach to online shopping, rethinking the consumer experience from discovery to delivery via the Route app, while offering a suite of features that provides merchants the tools necessary to enhance the overlooked post-purchase experience. Since launching in 2018, Route has built a network of over 1.5 million app users and 7,000 merchants. The company has offices in Lehi, UT and Los Angeles, CA. For more information go to route.com
About the Role
Route's software engineers are developing next-generation technologies that change how millions of users see, share, and discover the world's products. We are looking for versatile engineers that bring a background in distributed systems design and development, large-scale data storage and processing systems, and much more.
We are looking for a senior software engineer to join our eCommerce Platform team and provide leadership for the team that designs, builds, and maintains our integrations to eCommerce platforms. These integrations support more than 7,000 merchants across eCommerce platforms. This team provides the crucial connection between Route’s internal systems and our merchant’s systems to enable Route’s products across thousands of merchants. This leader would be responsible for guiding the design and implementation of the inbound and outbound communication interfaces between Route and our integrated platforms.
Route is an engineering company. We need our engineers to bring fresh ideas and be excited to take on new problems across the stack. We aspire to hire the best people with a broad set of technical skills, representing a globally diverse audience, and bringing a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and cultures.
Your participation:
- Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of critical integrations
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Reach out across the engineering organization to ensure cross team requirements are understood and met
- Encourage engineering best practices, design, and coding standards
- Embody a culture of innovation, transparency, and radical candor
Minimum qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science
- Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience architecting and developing large scale systems
- Experience with one or more general-purpose languages, e.g. Javascript, PHP, Go, Java, C#
- Interest and ability to learn other languages as needed
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with one or more of the following: AWS, SaaS software systems, microservices, REST API design
- Experience leading small engineering teams
- NodeJS and GoLang experience is a plus
- Experience designing and implementing systems with high security, reliability, and scalability requirements
- Experience working with e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, etc is a plus
Benefits:
Route offers an array of benefits including generous salaries, stock options, 100% healthcare coverage, and an unlimited PTO policy.
Route is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.