The Opportunity

It is an exciting time to join Vistaprint as our founder and CEO, Robert Keane, recently returned to lead Vistaprint as CEO and is building out a new executive team. Together with all employees, we are renewing the company’s focus on delighting customers, fostering an entrepreneurial culture, and accelerating our world-class capabilities.  We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. Vistaprint’s vision of helping small business owners live their dreams is exciting and inspirational. In order to capitalize on our opportunity, we have embarked on a transformational journey to deliver “jaw-dropping customer value”. This will lead us to achieve world-class technology, services, and innovation, while creating an environment where our team members are inspired and enabled to do their best work.

About Our Team:

Vistaprint Corporate Solutions (VCS) is a line of business within Vistaprint that serves the commercial mid-market segment making it easy for larger businesses to order their print and promotional products using our innovative ProShop platform – a custom branded storefront. There is a huge market opportunity for Vistaprint within the commercial mid-market segment making it a very exciting time to join the VCS team. In parallel, as Vistaprint Technology builds its new platform, it is a pivotal time for VCS Tech to influence and contribute to this transformational journey. As a Principal Software Engineer in VCS Tech, your skills will expand and enhance our ProShop platform. You will join a global team of software professionals, building features that delight and inspire our customers. Software development at Vistaprint is fast paced, with new code released continuously. We design, build and test our systems in a highly collaborative environment, encouraging feedback from all aspects of the business.

Your role will involve: 

• Imagining, designing, building, and maintaining services and experiences that support the VCS line of business
• Identifying opportunities where VCS Tech can leverage and contribute to the new Vistaprint platform to help shape and influence its direction
• Regular cross-functional communication with other team leads, business stakeholders, and senior executives 
• Being an integral part of an engineering team that is releasing features to customers daily
• Helping other engineers grow through effective feedback, mentoring, and knowledge sharing
• Sharing code ownership and operational responsibilities with your team, including on-call responsibilities (via a rotation)

What's in it for you? 

• Opportunity to work on a highly collaborative, global team
• Ability to influence and decide which technologies to use and how the team works
• Experience setting architectural and development standards and best practices
• Competitive salary + comprehensive benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible work location from our new office in Boston or headquarters in Waltham
• Continuous development opportunities such as onsite training and conferences

In return, you will bring: 

• 7+ years of experience working as a software developer in a fast-paced, technical, problem-solving environment (e-commerce industry preferred)
• 2+ years with full-stack software development including front-end frameworks using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX and some MV* frameworks like React / Vue / Angular / Backbone
• Mastery of at least one Object-oriented programming language (Java, C#, etc.)
• GCP or AWS cloud experience is a plus
• Strong ability to communicate with diverse audiences (including technical, non-technical and senior management)
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent collaboration and the desire to work with a global team
• Experience with Agile development using Scrum or Kanban