Backend Senior Software Engineer, Community and Product Launch

The engineering team at Minted is a growing, hands-on, flat organization. Because we are still small, everyone operates as a generalist, allowing our engineers to take on multiple roles and challenges beyond their titles. Regardless of position, each engineer has an impact on the final product from day one. The opportunities for growth and development here are incredible, with a strong culture of mentoring and promoting from within. We place significant emphasis on best engineering practices while giving each team autonomy over their agile processes. Diversity is a priority, and we foster an environment of respect and empathy.
Minted is seeking a talented and driven Backend Senior Software Engineer to join our Community and Product Launch team. This role involves building products that empower independent artists to grow their businesses on Minted.com, from participating in crowdsourced design challenges to transforming their designs into sellable products on our e-commerce platform. You’ll play an instrumental role in creating scalable, high-impact features, working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, and delivering innovative solutions for our artist community.

You Will:

• Design systems, implement and own scalable and maintainable services following SOA principles, enabling a transition from monolithic to microservices architecture.
• Develop systems and services that optimize and streamline our product launch and artist community processes, integrating with third-party vendors and building robust in-house solutions
• Lead efforts in product data remodeling, syncing, and integration using Product Information Management (PIM) and/or Master Data Management (MDM) systems, ensuring consistent, accurate, and accessible product data across all platforms and teams.
• Ensure all systems and pipelines adhere to continuous delivery practices, streamlining deployments and reducing lead times by building robust automated test suites to enhance quality assurance, covering unit, integration, and end-to-end testing for new and existing services.
• Advocate for and implement best practices in development, ensuring high-quality code, maintainable workflows, and process efficiency.
• Build and maintain backend architecture for our high-traffic e-commerce platform that is scalable, extensible, and efficient in system resource usage (memory, disk, I/O, etc.)
• Collaborate with product development, user experience, production, and artist relations teams to deliver projects with measurable business results
• Champion high code quality through design reviews, code reviews, and rigorous automated testing

You Have:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of professional experience as a software developer
• Technical system design expertise with a focus on distributed and cloud-based architectures, scalability, and designing complex software systems with accurate scope and risk estimations.
• Strong programming skills in Python and JavaScript
• Understanding of automated ways of testing your software
• Proficiency in SQL, database modeling, and ORMs
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, including EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, SQS, and CloudWatch
• Experience working with and understanding both client-side and server-side code
• A passion for writing clean, high-quality, and error-free code
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

You Are:

• Practiced with service-oriented architecture and passionate about building microservices and transforming and decomposing monolithic applications.
• Skilled at juggling competing priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• A collaborative thinker who thrives in a structured environment of teamwork and interdependencies
• A systems thinker with an intuitive grasp of interdependencies; you ask insightful questions and drive solutions that balance success across revenue, quality, brand, and cost goals
• A strong communicator who educates, fosters common knowledge, makes recommendations, and influences stakeholders towards alignment
• A balanced decision-maker with excellent product judgment who can navigate complex tradeoffs and constraints across multiple stakeholders

Bonus Points:

• Experience in a fast-paced, agile e-commerce environment
• Familiarity with Starlite, Django, and FastAPI frameworks
• Ability to read and refactor PHP code into Python as needed.
• Experience with React.js, HTML, CSS
• Experience with Docker, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and containerized environments
• Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform deployment platforms
• Experience managing resource contention and scalability issues in multi-threaded web appli