Software Architect
A rare opportunity to have massive impact: join the world-class team combining two of the top private sale e-commerce destinations, Gilt and Rue La La. As software architect, you are directly involved in transforming our technology stack to use the best tools for the job and enhancing our user experience to drive $1B annual sales and delighting 30M+ members.
You will:
- Be a hands-on contributor across a full application stack that operates at scale.
- Lead efforts to bring new technologies and best practices into the organization.
- Lead efforts to decompose a monolithic codebase into separate services.
- Utilize cloud-native architectures to deliver resilient, high-availability services.
- Build innovative customer experiences, setting standards for code quality and application performance.
- Mentor and train engineers from junior to principal level on best practices.
- Ship your first code in days working in a fast-paced agile team.
- Tackle technical debt in our existing codebase, refactoring for maintainability.
- Collaborate with product stakeholders to proactively identify technical issues and solutions for new features.
You have:
- Thrived in a full-stack web development environment.
- Utilized cloud providers such as AWS or Google Cloud.
- A passion for writing maintainable, scalable, well-tested code
- Experience or interest in working with languages such as Python, Java, Scala, Kotlin and Javascript/Typescript
- Built scalable RESTful APIs using frameworks such as Django, Spring Boot or Vert.x.
- Experience with single page applications utilizing frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
- An interest in working on containerized services with Docker.
- Experience mentoring and leading people at different stages in their career.
- Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, QA Engineers, Data Scientists, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists.
ABOUT RUE GILT GROUPE:
Rue Gilt Groupe is the premier off-price e-commerce portfolio company, connecting more than 30 million members with coveted designers at an exceptional value. Two complementary brands, Rue La La and Gilt, utilize world-class merchandising, technology and marketing to strategically support our brand partners and inspire members daily. Our approach to retail brings excitement to online shopping and the best-in-class experience that today's customers demand.
This Company is an equal opportunity employer, and selects individuals best matched for the job based upon job-related qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, gender identity, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status or any other status or characteristic protected by law.