Principal Software Engineer (Commerce)

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💎 Seniority level: Principal

📍 Location: United States, Canada

💸 Salary: 200000.0 - 240000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Boulevard👥 251-500💰 $70,000,000 Series C over 2 years agoInternet Consulting SaaS B2B Marketing

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: AWSBackend DevelopmentLeadershipPostgreSQLProject ManagementPythonSQLDesign PatternsJavaSoftware ArchitectureAlgorithmsAPI testingData StructuresGoREST APICommunication SkillsCI/CDRESTful APIsDevOpsAccountingMicroservicesData modelingSoftware Engineering

Requirements:

Experience architecting, building, and maintaining Commerce and Accounting products.
Experience shipping high-impact and complex user-facing initiatives.
Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go). Experience in Elixir is a plus.
Ability to make sound decisions and tradeoffs in design and implementation, appropriately anticipating scale, maintenance, and overall operational feasibility of solutions.
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. You know your audience and can communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
Deep partnership with your product, design, and marketing counterparts, constantly collaborating to ensure we progress towards the desired outcomes, maintaining healthy engagement with peers and stakeholders across R&D for cross-functional initiatives.
Able to lead large initiatives and roadmaps by partnering with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and scope smaller deliverables that yield incremental value to the business and customers.
Ability to move things forward in the face of ambiguity, operating effectively in decision-making while clearly articulating risks and trade-offs and ensuring proper visibility to key stakeholders and the squad.
You have a balance of both technical and leadership strengths. You guide sound technical decisions within the squad, as well as empower your team to autonomously create significant impact.
Demonstrated ability to set strategy for evolving systems to best support long-term objectives while still delivering incremental value in the now.

Responsibilities:

Strategic planning and execution, ensuring alignment with the company’s vision and objectives.
Own and lead the technical architecture and implementation of Boulevard’s Commerce Platform.
Establish and monitor system health metrics, implementing strategies to exceed targets.
Champion the maintenance of an observable, secure, and efficient codebase, addressing technical debt proactively to ensure the platform’s reliability and performance.
Participate in on-call rotation, where you will lead the incident investigation, resolution, and identifying post-incident improvements.

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