Senior Software Engineer
PriceYak
PriceYak helps sellers on eBay, Amazon, Shopify and other e-commerce platforms automate their drop shipping operations so they can focus on what they do best: their products and marketing. We run operations for eBay stores making up $170m in annual gross merchandise volume, about 2% of total GMV for eBay US.
We are hiring a Senior Software engineer to help fuel our growth!
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement new features to maintain PriceYak’s lead in the dropshipping space.
- Continuously raise the bar in terms of code quality, performance, and systems design.
- Plan, design, and build our core platform software and systems to scale with an increasing number of users, features, and new engineers.
- Help our support agents with customer issues and fix bugs.
- Collaborate with our Head of Product in designing, testing and launching new features.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience (4+ years) building and operating large-scale, distributed backend systems.
- Skilled at developing and debugging in one or more programming languages.
- Empathy for the user and a sense for good UX.
- Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers.
- An unquenchable thirst for learning new things and the ability to pick up new technologies quickly.
- Obsession with keeping costs low while building your products.
- Experience developing systems in web application frameworks.
Nice to Haves
- Expertise in Python, JavaScript, CSS, Meteor.
- Familiarity with Linux.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers on business and personal career goals.
This is a great position for an experienced software engineer who craves the immediate impact of their work and an opportunity to be a technology leader.
What We Are
- PriceYak is the biggest product and team under Zinc, a Y Combinator startup.
- We offer a competitive medical, dental, & retirement benefits in addition to flexible vacation and work schedule policy.
- 100% remote environment. Live and work where you want. That said — we do have offices in San Francisco, if you prefer to work onsite (unlimited La Croix, cold brew coffee, Soylent and more!).
- Thousands of small business owners around the world make a living using Zinc's software.
- You will be surrounded by smart, driven, and dedicated co-workers.
Fine Print
- This is a full-time role with benefits.
- The salary range is 120k-160k, depending on experience.
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