Senior Full Stack Engineer - Marketplace - Inventory Management (REMOTE)

What drives you? Working on something you believe in? At Discogs, we believe in sharing music with the world. Our technical teams build a product that opens the doors to discovery for millions of music lovers. The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer for the Marketplace - Inventory Management team will be responsible for building a robust inventory management system using modern React, Python, and GraphQL.

Location

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Starting Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $132,000 yearly

Who We Are

Discogs is the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use the Discogs Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As Discogs continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

Who We’re Looking For

The Senior Full Stack Engineer acts as a senior member of a group of passionate engineers to help us create software and services for the Discogs product.  As a technical subject matter expert, this role is instrumental in driving our technology vision forward and evangelizing development and testing practices that drives Discogs transformation and growth strategies. Requires great ability to multi-task across projects as well as to adapt to different areas of the code where previous knowledge, skills, and experience may not exist. This role provides strong technical leadership and mentorship to develop the capabilities of other team members. This role motivates and fosters collaboration across the teams.

What You’ll Accomplish

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Plan, develop, and deploy server-side and client-side software in sprint cycles.
• Observe, debug and optimize production systems with thousands of concurrent users.
• Research new frontiers, prototype implementations and share knowledge.
• Communicate openly and collaborate frequently with Product and Engineering teams to quickly deliver high quality products that maximize value to the Discogs ecosystem.
• Take responsibility over large, complex features from concept to design to delivery with no guidance. 
• Maintain, rebuild and adapt legacy codebases alongside modernizing our stack. 
• Assists team with estimation and prioritization of development efforts.
• Coaches and mentors other engineers by providing recommendations, technical oversight, code reviews and feedback.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

What You’ll Contribute

Minimum Experience and Education

Must Have:

• 5+ years of experience developing software solutions
• Building, operating, troubleshooting and optimizing production systems under load.
• Delivered software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks.
• Interface with relational databases using SQL.
• Using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC.
• Familiarity with Build systems, DevOps and CI/CD procedures.
• Familiarity with cloud services.
• Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to be able to guide and mentor team members. 
• Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance.
• Experience completing a significant refactor of an existing software project.
• Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers.
• Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports and affects business outcomes.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers.
• Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks as required.
• Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas.
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university in math\computer science related field, or equivalent work experience.

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