Senior Software Development Engineer, Full Stack

Who we are

Recharge is the subscription platform for the world’s fastest-growing and most innovative brands. Shopify’s premier subscription solution, Recharge is on a mission to build the future of commerce around customer retention.

Known for its relentless product innovation and focus on ease of use, Recharge helps merchants deliver seamless customer experiences that drive customer retention and revenue growth. The Recharge platform leverages data from over 100 million shoppers to help brands more successfully set up, manage, and grow their subscription businesses.

Recharge is a hands-on partner to over 20,000 brands globally — including quip, Dr. Squatch, Blueland, Estrid, Oats Overnight, Bobbie, and more.

Learn more at: getrecharge.com

 

Role Overview

The Storefront Team at Recharge is responsible for storefront widgets and backend services. These inject Recharge features; Subscriptions, Bundles, and Loyalty benefits into our merchant’s checkout experience. They handle 2.5M+ sessions per day and are some of our highest scale components in our platform. Checkout performance is critical to driving merchant revenue. As a result our widgets require high performance and stability.

In addition to the front-end widgets, the team is also responsible for supporting back-end services consisting of SQL/document databases, a CDN, event-driven messaging systems and REST APIs.

Our Tech Stack: Python, Flask, React with Remix and Chakra UI, Vue.js, GCP, Elasticsearch, Redis, CloudSQL/MySQL

Who you are

We recognize that there are a variety of personalities and work styles. Here are some facets of people who enjoy working at Recharge engineering:

• You love remote work, but not working alone. You love not commuting to work, but you also love collaborating to clarify, confirm, theorize, figure out, and decide on solutions to problems
• You love tackling challenges on different fronts like code, infrastructure, documentation, and evangelizing new libraries and services to stakeholders
• You love the fast-paced nature of the eCommerce world
• You love rapid iterative design, testing, and development while gaining context and understanding along the way. You can recognize when you know enough to take the next useful step to deliver value.
• You are good at breaking up work into near, mid, and long-term phases so you can deliver value all along the way as you work toward a clear overall direction.
• You are good with working around existing systems and developing creative solutions to new and difficult problems.

Execution: You want to get things done. You’re energized by getting product in front of customers, and prefer an iterative approach with regular deliveries to your stakeholders versus all-at-once major releases. You hold yourself accountable for shipping regularly. You understand customer feedback is key in building the right thing and are flexible to handle changes in direction. 

Engineering excellence: You have experience in a variety of contexts, working with frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data. You’re confident reviewing PRs, discussing optimization strategies, and getting into the details as needed to make sure a high-quality product goes out the door.

Communication: You are a sound communicator across multiple mediums, including in-person, video, chat, and written documentation. You understand that being a senior level engineer is to be engaged in discussions, coach your fellow teammates, and effectively communicate technical designs and implementations.

Pragmatic: You productively work with your leadership, your product counterparts, and your team to deal with the realities on the ground on a day-to-day basis. You know plans change and markets change, and you believe you have what it takes to respond effectively to them.

Kindness and respect: You believe that there’s a right way to be part of the team, and it comes from having respect for yourself, your team, your leaders, and your stakeholders. You engage in meaningful exchanges, valuing feedback and diverse perspectives.

Bonus Experience:

• Experience in e-commerce
• Experience building within Shopify’s ecosystem

What you’ll do

• Live by and champions all of our core values (#accountability, #collaboration, #iteration, and #details)
• Build, maintain, and debug high-impact, high-performance, high-scale products enabling our merchants storefront experiences.
• Perform thorough code reviews and provide useful constructive feedback.
• Embrace rapid iterative design, testing, and development to gain context and understanding along the way informing the next useful step in delive