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Favor over 2 years ago
location: remoteus
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Back End – Staff Software Engineer

TEXAS OR REMOTE

ENGINEERING

FULL TIME

  • Favor’s mission is ‘Anything Delivered’. Our engineers make high-touch logistics happen. The Favor technology platform is the engine behind the business enabling millions of Favors.
  • Our technology efficiently manages the real-time assignment of Runners to Favors, facilitates communication between customers, Runners, and support, keeps thousands of customer and Runner mobile applications in sync, and more.
  • Do you get a thrill when you make an impact on hundreds of thousands of users? Do you want to work for a purpose and value driven company in a high growth environment?
  • Our engineers create the tools and applications necessary to connect our customers, Runners, merchants, and support teams.
  • As a Staff Engineer at Favor you will be responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of our web applications, back-end services, databases, and data warehouse.
  • You will work closely with our product and operations teams to understand customer needs, build simple solutions to complex problems, and deliver delightful experiences to all our users.
  • At Favor, we are committed to building a world class team that shares a passion for modern, clean code and products that make a difference. We need engineers like you to help us achieve our mission of ‘Anything Delivered’.

Responsibilities:

  • Recommends changes to processes and tools at the team level based on industry standards, patterns and practices
  • Leads creation of documentation and provides training around technology stacks and standards
  • Helps other engineers to understand system/application designs
  • Work with engineering and product management to plan solutions for large features
  • Communicates inidual and project-level development statuses, issues, risks, and concerns to technical leadership and managementIndependently build, diagnose, and fix high complexity technical issues

Skills & Qualifications:

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Ability to lead larger initiatives working with the product, design, and engineering teams
  • Advanced understanding of software design patterns to write clean, well-structured, idiomatic code leveraging the full power of a language
  • Creates solutions to problems under various constraints using novel algorithms and data structures
  • Writes atomic tests with minimal side effects and has a strong understanding of test automation techniques
  • Able to gather and define software requirements considering multiple patterns and strategies in order to build efficient solutions
  • Knowledge of how different parts of a system architecture will work together and can diagnose issues within the system
  • Ability to use debugging tools to trace and diagnose issues
  • Expert knowledge of REST + JSON, API versioning strategies, and security best practices
  • Communicates difficult technical concepts in precise, concise, and unambiguous terms
  • Can read and understand an execution plan for the purposes of optimizing table structure and tuning queries

Ideal Candidates:

  • Appreciate simple design
  • Love to write clean, well tested code – test first or TDD approaches a plus
  • Like working with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment
  • Have experience in a high-growth startup
  • Communicate well with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Have experience or familiarity with one or more of the following technologies: PHP, Scala, Kotlin, Java, MySQL, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, JUnit, Jenkins

Life at Favor:

  • Benefits — We offer premium health, vision, dental, life, and 401(k) options. We also offer Favor delivery credit and H-E-B discounts!
  • Time-Off — We offer unlimited PTO for salary employees and ample vacation time to all team members. We empower you to live your best life and do your best work!
  • Learning & Development — We encourage personal growth and education through regular Learning Labs taught by internal team members and external facilitators.
  • Community — Whether you’re an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there’s a group for you here. We foster community through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), quarterly company-wide events, happy hours, and regular connection opportunities.