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Senior Software Engineer - Delivery Tech

Gopuff

Gopuff

Software Engineering
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Posted on Friday, July 26, 2024
Gopuff’s engineering team is building solutions to dramatically change the way people purchase their daily goods. We provide the modern-day solution to meet customers' immediate everyday needs with products ranging from snacks and ice cream to household goods and beer, at the click of a button. As a Senior Software Engineer in our delivery technology team, your primary responsibility will be to build/maintain services and solutions to fulfill the needs of the Delivery Technology which includes Driver Pay and Pricing, Dispatch and Optimization, ETA and Routing, and the Driver App.
The right candidate will have the technical aptitude to drive good technology choices through collaboration with the product, engineering, and stakeholders across the company. You will partner with the engineering leadership to strategize the technical evolution of the projects to meet the future growth of the business. Success in this role will be measured by the team’s effective delivery of services, making the right design tradeoffs, mentoring other engineers on the team, and rolling up your sleeves to write code following industry practices. You raise the bar of the engineering standards within the team and more broadly.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or relative experience)
  • 5+ Years of relevant experience
  • Proficiency with modern web, frontend, backend, and/or cloud applications
  • Good understanding of Object Oriented concepts
  • Experience building highly scalable, high-throughput systems
  • Experience creating APIs and extensible systems

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience using Go, Java, Python, Flutter, Node.js in a production setting and open to learning other languages
  • Experience building microservices in a distributed environment.
  • Experience with message-based/event-driven architecture with knowledge of asynchronous transactional patterns.
  • Public cloud experience in a production setting (Azure/GCP)
  • Experience in operations, monitoring, and deployment methodologies for distributed systems

Responsibilities

  • Promote and support Gopuff Engineering’s culture of inclusion and diversity
  • Participate in cross-functional projects in an agile environment
  • Build, deploy, and maintain your own code
  • Support standard development practices including idiomatic syntax, design patterns, and Test driven development
  • Implement and Monitor analytics to ensure the correctness of the business process
  • Support services in production to maintain reliability and correctness.
  • Participate in team on-call rotations when necessary
  • Participate in code reviews and giving system design feedback

Location:

  • Candidates will be given priority in Philadelphia and Miami markets (hybrid Tues-Thurs onsite)
  • Also open to candidates working remotely in NYC or San Francisco

Compensation:

  • Gopuff pays employees based on market pricing and pay may vary depending on your location. The salary range below reflects what we’d reasonably expect to pay candidates. A candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. For additional information on this role’s compensation package, please reach out to the designated recruiter for this role.
  • Hybrid - Salary Range (varies based on a cost of labor index for geographic area within the United States): $165,000 - $215,000
At Gopuff, we know that life can be unpredictable. Sometimes you forget the milk at the store, run out of pet food for Fido, or just really need ice cream at 11 pm. We get it—stuff happens. But that’s where we come in, delivering all your wants and needs in just minutes.
And now, we’re assembling a team of motivated people to help us drive forward that vision to bring a new age of convenience and predictability to an unpredictable world.
Like what you’re hearing? Then join us on Team Blue.
Gopuff is an equal employment opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive workplace where we do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or familial status, age, ancestry, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We believe in diversity and encourage any qualified individual to apply.