Discogs is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to play a pivotal role within the Engineering Foundation. You will serve as a technical expert, championing best practices, providing leadership, and mentoring team members while contributing to the software that serves music fans worldwide.
What You'll Do
- Plan, develop, and deploy server-side and client-side software in sprint cycles.
- Observe, debug, and optimize production systems with thousands of concurrent users.
- Research new frontiers, prototype implementations, and share knowledge.
- Communicate openly and collaborate frequently with Product and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality products.
- Take responsibility for large, complex features from concept to design to delivery with no guidance.
- Maintain, rebuild, and adapt legacy codebases alongside modernizing our stack.
- Assist the team with estimation and prioritization of development efforts.
- Coach and mentor other engineers by providing recommendations, technical oversight, code reviews, and feedback.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience developing software solutions.
- Experience building, operating, troubleshooting, and optimizing production systems under load.
- Experience delivering software using Python and JavaScript with frameworks.
- Experience interfacing with relational databases using SQL.
- Experience using Git and conducting code reviews within a sprint SDLC.
- Familiarity with Build systems, DevOps, and CI/CD procedures.
- Familiarity with cloud services.
- Thorough understanding of HTTP APIs.
- Possess advanced knowledge in your specialization to guide and mentor team members.
- Experience designing and leading a software project from requirements to delivery with no guidance.
- Experience completing a significant refactor of an existing software project.
- Experience independently researching and leading technical discussions with peers.
- Thoroughly understands the business vision, mission, and strategy and how their code supports business outcomes.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from key stakeholders and decision makers.
- Working knowledge of taking a large complex project, breaking it down into sub-tasks, and completing those tasks.
- Shows initiative and seeks evidence in data to support ideas.
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university in a math or computer science related field, or equivalent work experience.
Nice to Have
- Use of containerization and orchestration technologies, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Node.js, FastAPI, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Flask, Redis, Memcached.
- Experience with AWS, DataDog, Cloudflare Workers, WP Engine.
- Familiarity with microservices, distributed/edge systems, and event driven architectures.
- Knowledge of ADA / WCAG Compliance.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python, JavaScript, SQL
- Tools: Git
- Frameworks & Runtimes: Node.js, FastAPI, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Flask
- Datastores: Redis, Memcached
- Platforms & Infrastructure: AWS, DataDog, Cloudflare Workers, WP Engine, Docker, Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You will work within a squad of dedicated engineers at Discogs, where high value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically, and open-source tools are important to how we work.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $120,000 - $127,500 yearly, plus performance-related bonus program.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents.
- 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure.
- 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms.
- 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption.
- Monthly wellness allowance.
- Annual professional and personal development allowance.
- Work from home office set-up and expense allowances.
- Flexible work location opportunities.
- Employer matching toward charitable contributions.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates located in Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado, Texas, or Illinois.
Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
