[Remote] Staff Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. As a Staff Engineer on the Core Services team, you will lead the architectural strategy and technical quality for applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure scalability and performance of systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical quality for all applications developed by your team
• Drive strategic initiatives to optimize the stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical systems, ensuring they remain the robust, efficient backbone for Shipt's retail partners
• Regularly work across and influence Product, Platform, and other engineering teams to align on technical direction, prioritization, and solution design
• Establish the domain-wide standard for operational excellence
• Set the highest bar for engineering fundamentals, including test coverage (Unit, Integration, E2E) and code quality
• Evaluate and evolve engineering processes (CI/CD, RFCs, Post-mortems) to eliminate systemic inefficiencies and improve team velocity without sacrificing quality
• Architect services with a 'Security-first' mindset, scrutinizing third-party libraries and ensuring data protection standards are woven into the initial design phase rather than added as an afterthought
• Create and advocate for high-quality technical documentation, including high-level architecture diagrams and low-level workflow schemas, to ensure system maintainability

Skills

• 7+ years of software development experience, specifically building and maintaining complex, highly distributed systems in cloud environments at significant scale
• Deep expertise in Golang (or similar systems languages) and a sophisticated understanding of relational databases, advanced caching strategies, and message brokers (Kafka)
• A proven ability to diagnose, resolve, and prevent complex bottlenecks in distributed architectures, high-volume services, and database query performance
• You are a dedicated mentor who can grow the careers of those around you, specifically acting as a resource and guide for Senior Engineers, Engineers and Associate Engineers
• You thrive in environments with high degrees of freedom, taking full architectural ownership and driving the 'Definition of Done' for your services from concept to operation
• You possess the judgment to balance the need for architectural purity with the reality of business delivery, knowing when to build for the long-term future and when to iterate quickly for immediate impact
• A data-driven approach to engineering; you use metrics to improve test runtimes, code performance, and to define meaningful SLIs/SLOs for your domain
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Agile Methodology
• Apache Kafka
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Go Programming Language
• Kubernetes

Benefits

• Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
• Employees may enroll in our company’s 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.

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