As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll help shape the future of our e-commerce codebase by focusing on developer experience and long-term engineering vision by:
Building solutions for our e-commerce platform including design, development, testing, and deployment
Using the best tools for the job; creating right-sized, tested, and reliable services to meet the needs of the customers and co-workers
Working with marketing teams to ensure a high quality, fast, and easy online shopping experience for our customers
Working with our data analytics team to ensure we are capturing and leveraging the information we need to drive business decisions
Working with operations teams to communicate with fulfillment and shipping services that power our warehouses
Working with our QA engineers to ensure we run quality E2E tests during each stage of CI/CD
Building reporting services and self-service internal tools for use by others to expand SimpliSafe's capabilities
About You
8+ years of professional experience developing software and business solutions
Ability to provide examples of leading or developing full-stack solutions from concept to completion
Proven ability to mentor engineers, drive technical decision-making, and set standards that elevate the team's engineering quality
Expert experience with React and modern JavaScript frameworks (Remix, Next.js, React Router), including rendering strategies (SSR, CSR, SSG) and scalable client/server architecture design
Experience with design systems, component libraries, and structuring a large scale React application
Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript, with a strong track record of building and scaling production applications
Experience designing and implementing backend services with REST and GraphQL APIs using frameworks like NestJS or Express.js
Knowledge of SQL including experience with ORM (TypeORM, Prisma, or others), query optimization, and schema design
Experienced cloud-native developer (AWS preferred), focused on creating scalable services using performant architecture patterns and tools including infrastructure as code technologies
Experience leveraging AI tools and integrations to accelerate development workflows and automate business processes
A collaborative team player with Agile experience and a commitment to continuous delivery of high-quality software
Passion for building new things as well as integrating with existing data and third party systems
Nice To Have Skills
E-Commerce experience, commercetools a plus
Knowledge of containerization including Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS
Experience with Contentful or other CMS including content modeling
Experience with A/B testing platforms such as Contentful Personalization or Optimizely
Experience with edge runtimes(Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Vercel Edge)
Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or APM tooling (Grafana, New Relic, Datadog) applied to Node.js server performance
What Values You'll Share
Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to ra
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
About SimpliSafe
We're a high-tech home security company that's passionate about protecting the life you've built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we've created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you're building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don't just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.
We're embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday - working together in person and choosing where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and get to use the best of both worlds to get our work done.
Why are we hiring?
Well, we're growing and thriving. So, we need smart, talented, and humble people who share our values to join us as we disrupt the home security space and relentlessly pursue our mission of keeping Every Home Secure.
Simplisafe · Boston, MA