Senior Software Engineer II

About the Team

At GOAT Group, the Engineering team is an integral part of our dynamic company. By joining the team, your skills will be front and center, working alongside other passionate individuals to solve problems and build software. From launching compelling new consumer experiences, tackling global logistics challenges to scaling infrastructure to facilitate our rapid growth – technology is essential to driving our vision forward. The work you do will change the way the world shops, while also empowering entrepreneurs, including individual sellers, brands and boutiques.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior-Lead Level Engineer to help their team design and implement new features across multiple backend applications. As both a technical leader and a core individual contributor, you will play a key role in enhancing a monolithic Ruby on Rails app at the heart of the business and in building out a new, more scalable service-driven architecture.

In this role, you will:

Take point on projects and problems of significant scope, possibly spanning multiple teams and applications

Deliver stable, well-tested solutions on time, delegating where appropriate

Provide clear technical direction and advocate for improvement while minimizing downtime and risk

Adapt to technical change with agility by proposing creative and thoughtful alternatives

Coordinate with other leaders and set proper expectations for all parties involved

Bring technical leadership and oversight to all teams and projects of which you are a part

Successful engineers at this level also look well beyond their specific assignments to help ensure that the whole project gets over the finish line quickly and correctly

We are looking for:

5+ years of experience in software engineering with Ruby on Rails and/or Golang (python or java OK too)

Product focused backend engineering work and team exposure

Experience with e-Commerce/Web Applications/Consumer Facing Apps/Large Scale Systems

Familiar and comfortable with the technologies, the tradeoffs, and the design patterns emerging in web services

A quick learner, a self-starter, able to work independently, and you're willing (and able) to handle the pressures of an increasing level of responsibility

Experience working with Postgres, DynamoDB, or related technologies

Exposure to AWS

Strong experience working with systems at a large scale - ownership and execution of these projects