Principal Web Engineer

Stadium Goods is the world’s premier sneaker and streetwear marketplace. Since launching in 2015, we have had only one goal: to make it easier to buy and sell premium footwear, apparel, and accessories. We work hard to deliver an incredible user experience both online and in person, and strive to get better each and every day.

As the Principal Web Engineer, you will design high-performing, scalable, web based software solutions that handle a high volume of transaction every day. Qualified candidates are highly skilled and knowledgeable of responsive and adaptive design and work closely with product leadership to deliver exceptional fluid experiences. The chosen candidate will work directly with our Head of Product to exude passion and dedication to motivating others in an agile environment with a consistent and persistent driven to constantly improve processes, technology, and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Experienced technical lead that stays up to date with best practices across data, engineering, and design to mentor team members and colleagues through developing state of the art technology;
• Aspirations to own and manage core mission-critical platform from the ground up: ideation, designing, coding, building, and maintaining. Infrastructure must be designed for excellence in reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency;
• Establish documentation need, best practices, and high-quality coding production;
• Create, develop, and maintain architectural documentation, technical requirements, design specifications, and other forms of development documentation;
• Lead weekly stand-ups, weekly sprints, code reviews, hack weeks and other collaborative coding events.
• Develop feedback systems for system monitoring, bind front and back end systems;
• Monitor, test, and continuously optimize designs through modern, testable, and maintainable code;
• Exude technical mastery and leadership to develop and manage dev teams through collaborative productivity and effectiveness;
• Demonstrative track records in practical experience with web app development alongside a deep-seated understanding of best practices and excelling with an agile mindframe;
• Lead closely with other senior directors across cross-functional teams to execute product roadmaps, resource requirements, and bring depth to our technical and business strategies.

Requirements

• +10 years experience with SOA, design patterns, web services, SaaS, API, and web application development;
• Previous technical leadership experience is required as senior technical staff, VP, or CTO of previous startups;
• Expert level understanding of system performance analysis, trade-offs, load balancing,and engineering for high availability and scalability;
• Extensive experience with architecture, database design, queueing, caching, containers, risk mitigation, security, and operational aspects of running large systems;
• Mastery of planning, execution, estimating, and scheduling with a strong desire and track record of training, managing, and mentoring others;
• Extensive experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating reliable, scalable, and resilient distributed systems;
• Proven ability to bring consensus around diverse teams lead by product and executed through tech while working in a fast-paced environment;
• Mastery of analytical skills, data-driven decision-making, and thriving in a results-oriented environment;
• Deep seated care for quality, testing, automation, and shipping high quality code with an adaptable and resourceful attitude;
• Strong experience with Ruby/Rails, Docker, Node.JS, React, Javascript, Angular, Vue, PHP; a plus with Magento experience;
• Experience with design, functional design patterns, source controls, beautiful outcomes, A/B testing, and SEO experience;
• Experience with continuous delivery and automated testing with strong attention to web technologies, data exploration, usability, and design.

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive salary and health benefits
• Generous paid time off & work from home policy
• Dynamic career growth opportunities
• A fun, creative and mission-driven work environment
• Team outings and afterwork events