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Senior Engineer - Search at Shipt, Inc.

Posted in Military/Defense 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Birmingham, Alabama





Job Description:

At Shipt, we are transforming the grocery shopping experience and giving time back to consumers. Shipt shoppers handpick fresh groceries and household essentials, then deliver them to your door in as little as one hour.

Shipt is growing and we are searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will Make the world a better place.

What You’ll Gain
You will get experience working with a cross-disciplinary team shipping real-world products to our customers around the nation. In the Search team, you will work with latest technologies such as Elasticsearch, Golang, Kafka, and GCP. Our team culture is autonomous yet collaborative and supportive.

Your Responsibilities
- Proven work on search relevance and ranking algorithms
- Proven work on search related information retrieval projects and infrastructure at scale
- Proven expertise in Search fundamentals including query understanding, text matching, auto complete, and search ranking
- Deep domain expertise with search engines such as Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene
- Design, develop, test (unit/integration/etc), deploy and maintain application code
- Develop multi-region, high performance services to manage shopper supply, order claiming and more
- Work with a variety of technologies: Go, Ruby, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka and more
- Participate in the design process to build efficient, scalable and maintainable architecture
- Collect and analyze metrics to drive implementation decisions
- Design, improve and document processes
- Review and collaborate with other engineers on their code
- Support your team through encouragement and by example
- Engineers have a high degree of ownership for all aspects of their services
- Mentor and share knowledge with the team

Requirements
- 4+ Years of Software Development Experience
- Able to apply functional and object-oriented paradigms
- Able to apply the SOLID principles
- Demonstrated ability designing and interacting with complex persisted data models
- Able to both identify and improve poor performing code or database queries
- Able to explain REST principles and design APIs that follow them
- Experience with SOA, micro-services, and/or distributed architectures
- You are interested in continually learning and mastering new skills
- Able to communicate complex ideas and concepts simply and concisely
- You are willing to monitor and own the production services team
- You are empathic and enjoy learning from and mentoring other engineers

Nice to Haves
- One or more of the following languages: Ruby/Rails, Python or Golang
- Open source software and dependency management
- Object/Document data storage technologies
- Caching and in-memory database technologies
- Asynchronous/Multi-threaded Programming Patterns
- Message queuing technologies/strategies
  

The minimum annual salary for this position is $102,100. You may also be entitled to receive bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.





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