About CommentSold
CommentSold is the North American leader in live selling technology (ranked by G2), having enabled over 7,000 small to mid-sized retailers with live-selling tools, generating over 166 million items sold with $3.8B+ in lifetime GMV. CommentSold’s technology continues to provide businesses and creators of all sizes with best-in-class solutions for delivering engaging live video commerce experiences across all of their sales channels simultaneously. CommentSold moved into direct-to-consumer commerce via the acquisition of assets of Popshoplive, a community-driven livestream shopping marketplace app at the intersection of social, e-commerce and entertainment. In 2022, CommentSold debuted its lightweight video commerce plugin technology, Videeo, which gives any retailer or brand the ability to embed and go live with engaging, branded live video commerce experiences within days by easily integrating into an existing e-commerce stack.
Our Engineering team stays close to our customers, building the tools to deliver on our promise to make running their business easier. We make decisions fast, and priorities change as we adapt to the needs of our industry so we welcome folks that relish the challenges of pace. We believe in quick iteration and in-the-moment feedback, so we can work collectively to build the best team and product.
We are actively hiring for multiple roles within our Engineering teams with projects ranging from large-scale feature development to backend systems engineering and customer-focused problem-solving.
In this role, you will
- Work on a wide range of problems within our core web application
- Focus on solving problems from the customer-facing and backend perspectives
- Gain a deep understanding of our product and become involved in driving out product implementation
- Join a rapidly growing technical team with the opportunity to take on both product and technical problems
If you’re right for this role, you
- Have a strong understanding of core computer science principles
- Have professional experience with at least one MVC web framework (e.g. Laravel, Rails, Django)
- Have very strong backend systems and web application development experience
- Are experienced working on a high scale, rapidly growing web application (SaaS preferred)
- Are comfortable in a fast-paced, pragmatic work environment
- Are comfortable working with front-end components
- Have experience working on a remote team
Tech knowledge
- MVC frameworks
- Web security
- ORM knowledge
- SQL performance
- Testing
- Front-end frameworks: ReactJS or VueJS or equivalent
- Core stack: PHP/Laravel
- AWS : Lambda , RDS and Dynamodb
- Plotly.js/D3.js or other data visualization equivalent
We’re building a community, our chosen circle, around a set of values that guide how we work and interact with the world around us. Our cultural norms at work can’t be turned off when the computer’s away -- we live these in every part of our lives. Our team isn’t for everyone, so if you’re right for it, the following values should resonate strongly with how you live your life.
Deliver for our customer COMMUNITY: We are committed to making our customers successful.
Do it as a TEAM: We actively listen to diverse perspectives and respond empathetically.
Help each other GROW: We are willing to get uncomfortable for the sake of our growth.
OWN it: We do our part to reach the team's shared goals and hold ourselves and others accountable.
DRIVE forward: We are determined to innovate for impact.
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