Full Stack Engineer at Stackline in Seattle

Summary: Stackline is the first full-funnel connected commerce platform for the world's most innovative brands. As a Full Stack Engineer, you will design, build, maintain, and improve software products and data-collection services, while mentoring junior engineers and guiding the team in scaling systems for enhanced reliability and efficiency. Responsibilities: - Design and implement stable and performant data-collection technologies using Node.js, Java, Go or similar language - Execute full SDLC (design, build, document, unit/functional/load test, and deploy) of applications and infrastructure needed to scale our platform - Build and optimize efficient and reliable web scraping processes - Evaluate existing software to identify enhancement opportunities. This will include tackling latency, throughput challenges in data processing and request serving - Set up efficient operational processes including continuous deployment pipelines (CI/CD), testing automation, and appropriate monitoring and alerts - Actively participate in design discussions, team planning and code reviews. Provide insightful and constructive feedback for team and individual improvement - Troubleshoot software failures by reviewing code errors, logfiles, metrics, using debug functions, and other common troubleshooting techniques - Provide guidance to junior engineers about software development, operational excellence Required Qualifications: - Development experience in at least one modern programming language such as Typescript, C#, Java, or Python - Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline - Knows a broad range of design approaches and when to use them (and when to not) - Understands a broad range of data structures and algorithms, and which to use, or not - Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of a software (e.g., build dependencies). Knows how to be efficient with compute resources: hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc - Understands how to thoroughly test software services - Experience with AWS services: S3, SQS, SNS, ECS, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, ElasticCache - Experience using Database technologies: Elastic Search / Mongo / Dynamo / MySQL / Postgres / Redshift - Experience working with Agile methodologies - Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills, with a propensity towards learning new tools and technologies - Comfortable writing SQL and hands-on knowledge of working with large datasets - Knowledge of web scraping libraries and browser-automation technologies such as Selenium or Puppeteer Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field - Experience working in a startup, retail, digital advertising, or e-commerce environment - Experience building complex applications on distributed systems that have been successfully deployed for a large customer base - Experience with Big Data technologies (streaming and batch processing) - Experience with LLMs and other machine learning models - End-to-end software development experience - History of delivering high quality production systems/services - Experience designing with an emphasis on scalability and sustainability - Strong written and verbal English communications skills - Knowledge of web scraping libraries and browser-automation technologies such as Selenium and Puppeteer Required Skills: Node.js, Java, Python, AWS services Important Skills: SQL, Agile methodologies, Web scraping Nice-to-Have Skills: analytical skills, Problem-solving skills, Communication skills Benefits: Comprehensive benefits plan covering medical, dental, and vision, Fertility benefits, Company 401k plan plus matching, Company paid Life Insurance, 20 days of Paid Time Off annually, 9 Paid company holidays, 100% Paid Parental leave - 20 weeks for birthing mothers and 12 weeks for all other parents, Summer Fridays early close at 3pm, Fully stocked kitchen, happy hours, and monthly catered lunches