Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Wolfe is growing, and we need a passionate Senior Software Engineer to help us scale. With developers spanning five distinct teams, we need to level up our enterprise-readiness by ensuring our code is robust, secure, performant, and maintainable. We’re looking for a Software Engineer with experience working with complex communications across multiple systems, acting as a tech lead for e-Commerce solutions, database construction, high throughput message buses, and interactivity with third-party APIs (Application Programming Interface).

Please note: Candidate MUST be located in the U.S. for consideration.

Please note: This is NOT a contract position. 

You'll find detailed information about our company culture, values, and the recognitions we've earned in our industry at the top page of our career site.

The Role

Sr Software Engineers at Wolfe, LLC are the prime implementers of the product vision. We have three business units with unique use-cases, including Card Linked Gifting, an in-house Gift Card Printing Facility, and high traffic e-commerce applications. Maintaining performant systems is crucial for our success. Software Engineers are embedded in one of our cross-functional product teams. They work alongside a product owner, designers, other Software Engineers, front-end developers, QA, and DevOps. The product team focuses on delivering on a conceptual slice of our business. Our environment is fast paced. We use an Agile SDLC (Kanban or Scrum) that promotes bottleneck reduction and adjustments based on observed metrics.

You love looking under the hood. You live in a world of entity design and business logic implementation. You think in systems. You appreciate the importance of design patterns.

You are motivated and driven. You treat software development like a craft that needs to be honed.

You have experience working with complex systems with many moving parts. You like representing business logic formally (like with state machines). You’ve built and operated systems that talk to third parties. You can write code that’s resilient against third-party failures.

You have an eye towards operations. Code is read and executed astronomically more times than it’s written, so you’re mindful of how your code can be observed in production, how it recovers from errors, how easily it can be understood by others.

You believe in an SDLC that promotes quick iterations, transparency, and automation.

You appreciate data, whether it’s the throughput of your team or the performance of your application, you know your numbers and, more importantly, the bottlenecks that the numbers reveal. This is true for process and for production metrics.

Our Development Team

The Wolfe Development and QA Team agrees to these principles:

• Production Insight - We don’t just write software, we run software. We ensure our applications and systems are working and maintain insight into how they’re performing and how they’re being used.
• Developer Accountability - “Done” means live, out to the world, in front of the people that are going to use it. We need people to own their work from implementation planning, through release, to on-going production awareness.
• Tight Development Loop - It’s cheaper to solve problems and answer questions closer to where they arise, so we have a great interest in quick reviews, quick releases, and quick adjustments.

Application Stack

The team has several front-end Next.js projects under their belt, and we’re looking for someone with a strong back-end focus to introduce JavaScript into our API and business layers, as well as continue to advance our JavaScript frontends. We need someone to champion this technology while participating on one of our cross-functional product teams.

The primary project you would initially be working on is a new application intending to utilize React.js using Next.js, backed with Node.js using NestJS.

The following is our existing JavaScript stack. You don’t need experience in everything to apply, but these are some of the technologies you are like to be in contact with:

• Typescript, JavaScript , Node.js
• Vercel, Builder.io, and Planetscale
• React.js/Next.js
• MySQL, Redis, Rabbit
• Twig, React, ReactNative
• AWS ECS, EC2, RDS, API Gateway
• Terraform
• Datadog
• Bitbucket Pipelines
• CloudFlare

Responsibilities

• Develop and own application code throughout the entire SDLC.
• Be an expert in