Description
What to expect as a Senior Software Engineer at Elastic Path?
Elastic Path is taking its next-generation, headless e-commerce services to the next level and it requires passionate and creative product-centric engineers to lead this effort.
We’re looking for someone who can design and implement complex e-commerce features in our core Product. You’ll work as part of a development squad and will own your work throughout the development lifecycle where you’ll strive for continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute Product Development’s vision
- Solve complex technical problems
- Deliver value to the organization as quickly as possible while minimizing risk
- Influence decision making in the team
- Participate in the architecture process - workgroups, ADRs, designs
- Approach feature development with a customer first perspective
- Develop and maintain high quality code
- Contribute to support issues when needed
- Mentor Junior Developers
- Do code reviews with the aim of teaching others
- Participate in new employee training to help get peers up to speed
- Help create a productive and fun work environment
- Contribute to the development and improvement of the security capabilities of Elastic Path, its systems, technology, software products and SaaS offerings.
This role is perfect for you if:
- You’re T-shaped - having a broad range of technology knowledge and interests with greater depth in some areas.
- You can make the complex simple – writing quality code always with readability in mind.
- You strive to understand the context and improve rather than just criticize code written by other people.
- You enjoy helping other engineers across the organization.
- You embrace new challenges and see them as a way to grow and learn, obstacles are fun.
- You can lead, you can follow but you are best as part of a team.
- You are ambitious, you desire to grow and crave feedback to help you.
- You always make a positive difference to the teams and products you work on.
Location: This is a remote role based in the UK, we are open to candidates based anywhere in the United Kingdom. Candidates are required to be located and have work authorization for either country to be considered. Elastic Path is a Remote First employer, so you’ll have the tools to work from wherever you are based.
What experience do you need to Be Remarkable in this position?
- 5+ years in a software-engineering role
- 3+ years developing large-scale software products – locally deployed/SaaS/PaaS
- You have experience of a Modern programming language and have built/maintained complex codebases. We use Go but any relevant experience is welcome and we’ll teach you Go if you don’t already know it.
- Server-side development and a RESTful API layer
- Experience of the full development lifecycle
Bonus Points for:
- Understanding of micro-services and distributed systems
- API design and development
- E-commerce background
- In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform
Our Technical Stack:
Some of our technical stack highlights include Go, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Postgres, SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ, AWS Lambda and more.
Our build, deployment and testing processes feature: GitLab, Datadog, automated functional and performance testing as well as continuous delivery and deployment plus a variety of AWS services.
Who we are:
Elastic Path is on a mission to break through the barriers that prevent commerce leaders from delivering extraordinary shopping experiences. Today, that means makingComposable Commerceaccessible to all brands by reducing the cost, time, and overall risk of implementing and managing a multi-vendor approach. With Elastic Path, both business and tech teams are able to innovate on their own terms, fully embrace composability, and in turn, never compromise on what’s possible. Learn more atwww.elasticpath.com.
Our culture is best described as supportive and driven. Our employees are passionate about what they do and work hard to achieve remarkable things. And they are committed to the greater team, always willing to support others. Elastic Path is a remote-first global company with collaborative office hubs in Vancouver, Toronto, Boston, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Reading.
Be Open. Be Remarkable. Be the Team. Be the Customer. The values we live by.
The Perks?
At Elastic Path, we go the extra mile to provide you & your family with exceptional benefits, wherever you may be located. You can find out more about what we offer on ourcareers page.
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Elastic Path is an equal opportunities employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We value and celebrate diversity in its many forms, and we strive to provide an inclusive and safe workplace where each person feels respected, supported, and accepted – however they choose to identify.
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