Principal Engineer

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.
Principal Engineer in Core and Shared Services team
Excited to grow with Shipt?
Shipt values our talented team members, and is dedicated to assisting team members reach their professional goals. If you think the open position below is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
We are currently looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Foundations engineering organization! In this role, you will lead full lifecycle engineering efforts including architecture, design, implementation, testing, and release on the Core Services Backend team. You will influence key technical decisions, set technical direction for products, and set an example of engineering excellence for the team. Additionally, you will promote and advocate for best practices, help level-up the organization, and serve as a technical expert willing to dig in where needed to ensure the success of the team!
Are you passionate about software development, sharing knowledge, growing your skills, and working with great people? The Shipt engineering team is growing, and we are looking for extraordinary engineers who enjoy building as much as we do. So if you are self-directed, enjoy autonomy in your work, and you are an excellent participant in a team, come join Shipt.
What You'll Gain
You will get experience working with a cross-disciplinary team shipping real-world products to our customers around the nation. You will also receive hands-on mentorship from your friendly teammates on topics ranging from design to communications strategy.
Your Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test (unit/integration/etc), deploy and maintain application code
• Develop multi-region, high performance services
• Work with a variety of technologies: Go, Postgres, 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
• Lead your teams through encouragement and by example
• High degree of ownership for all aspects of their services
• Mentor and share knowledge with your teams

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field
• 7-10 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
• Work across teams and organizations, navigate vagueness, and establish technical clarity

Nice to Haves

• One or more of the following languages: Golang, Java, C#, Python or Ruby/Rails
• 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

Work Arrangement:
Shipt considers candidates located near a Shipt office or workspace in Birmingham, San Francisco, or Minneapolis to be hybrid, which means that they have the flexibility to work from home (with leader approval) or at a Shipt office in order to facilitate the ability to innovate, collaborate, and spark team connections. In-office expectations will vary by role and leader. Certain roles may require in-office presence on a full-time basis. Please work with your recruiter to learn more about the classification of this role.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection if you need any accommodations.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Metro Areas of Boston, District of Columbia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City pay range:
$156,660-$313,320