zulily is a retailer obsessed with bringing our customers something special every day. Unique products from up-and-coming brands are featured alongside favorites from top brands, including clothing, home decor, accessories, toys and gifts, giving customers something new to discover each morning at an incredible price. We are fast-paced, innovative and metric-driven, with a team passionate for delighting our customers. Whether you want to work with incredible product selection, develop smart marketing plans, help us in our pursuit of faster fulfillment, or do something else awesome in between, we have a place for you. With locations in Seattle, Reno, Columbus and Bethlehem, our team is excited to be changing the way people shop every day - and we are just getting started.
Description
As a Software Engineer II at zulily, you are chartered with building the technology that powers the second fastest growing online retailer in history. Our incredible growth means we face new challenges on a consistent basis. In this position, you will be working on the e-commerce platform and API that supports our mobile native apps. Our mobile customers account for over 60% of our business, so an understanding of distributed systems and highly scalable API services on the cloud is absolutely paramount. The mobile team is very collaborative, fosters a mentoring culture, and values diversity of thought and experience.
What you will own, manage and be accountable for:
- Develop and deploy solutions independently and as a team member
- Participate in design efforts and discussions
- Review requirements, software designs, and code
- Own the quality of the deliverables
- Collaborate across business teams (stakeholders)
- Occasionally take on-call responsibilities in rotation with other team members
- Research new technologies to support build vs. buy and rapid growth of the business
- Design in a mindset of reducing technical debt
- Consistently delivers work with started timelines
What are some of the things you can expect from us?
- You will architect your own code completely, and you can have it in production within less than a day.
- We have a well-defined career path for our technical talent, with measurable goals.
- zulily understands the value of learning; every tech employee receives an annual education budget for personal development. This includes external classes, training, conferences, etc. We also encourage you to bring your new knowledge back to the team to share! In addition, zulily also has internal L & D tools and opportunities available.
- HTO (Hack Time Off) - You have great ideas – here’s some extra time to work on them! All exempt employees will be granted 5 days of “Hack Time Off” per year – PAID!
- Giving back: Every quarter we offer zulily full-time employees 8 hours of PAID volunteer time. We also encourage you to get a team of volunteers together and make a difference in the community.
- Zuniversity is a lecture/fireside series that allows you to meet with local influencers and learn about what is going on in our community.nsistent basis.
In this position, you must explore new technologies and collaborate with other engineers to design and build world-class technical services. Your team deploys production code rapidly to keep pace with zulily’s changing business, you are mindful of avoiding technical debt, and you take ownership of your team's roadmap and everything you do.
Essential Job Functions
- Collaborate across business teams (stakeholders)
- Operate and provide 24/7 services to internal and external customers
- Research new technologies to support build vs. buy and rapid growth of the business
- Design in a mindset of reducing technical debt
- Consistently delivers work with started timelines
- Develop and deploy solutions independently and as a team member
- Participate in design efforts and discussions
Qualifications
- At minimum, candidates must possess a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field (or equivalent education plus work experience may be acceptable)
- Preferred Education: Master's Degree
- 5+ years expert programming in large-scale, distributed systems in Java, PHP, Golang, Node.js, etc. with a strong preference for PHP and e-commerce
- Relevant experience with relational / non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, SQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Elastic Search, or Redis)
- Strong analytical skills with a data driven approach and ability to measure impact of project and product deliverables
- Strong software design and architecture skills with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt
Personal attributes that contribute to success at zulily:
- Desire to mentor and influence other developers within the team
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, evolving, growing and dynamic environment
- Ability to think system wide and translate business requirements into code
- Interested in exploring new ideas and have a passion to make them happen
- Strong communication and relationship building skills with the ability to influence others
zulily is an Equal Opportunity Employer
zulily participates in E-Verify. zulily will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. You may reach us at (206) 388-0920.
Primary Location
Seattle Office
Job
Technology
Full-time
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