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Company Summary:
Zoro is an eCommerce company that's on a mission to help business owners get everything they need to run their businesses and thrive–from office supplies to power tools. But we're way more than a website. We're a team of great people with an award-winning culture. Check us out and see for yourself!
Job Summary:
Zoro engineering is embarking on an exciting journey to build core engineering competencies that will enable us to make 100s of targeted releases daily, delighting our customers and giving them the best experience possible. Our engineering team is composed of a talented group of front-end, back-end, and full-stack engineers. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team of gifted developers and begin your journey of unleashing your true potential.
Constant improvements to zoro.com are delivered by our product teams. You will be on a high performing agile team with approximately 4-6 Software Engineers as well as a dedicated tech lead, product owner, and architect. Ideally we are looking for engineers who are well rounded in building scalable applications but that doesn't mean we won't provide an environment that'll help you grow.
Your objective will be to build and support robust tools and applications that support our business. To be successful in this role you must be the kind of Software Engineer who can produce fast, space and memory efficient code. We have endless data being shipped around between applications, and we cannot afford to fall behind.
We don't care if you taught yourself, attended a boot camp, or have a Computer Science degree; we care that you know your stuff. This means you have superb Software Engineering fundamentals, produce thoughtfully designed code that is reliable and maintainable. All of that is meaningless without thorough testing, of course. We're looking for engineers that are enthusiastic about learning new technologies and skills that will continue to make a difference as Zoro takes the next step forward.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Passion for product quality and attention to detail
- Comfort with ambiguity - We are always striving to make progress even with the unknowns in our space
- Delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with users, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs and product strategy
- Participate in code and design reviews with peers and partners
- Find and implement innovative ideas and approaches used elsewhere to improve what we do in my part of the business
- Design and architect solutions with performance and scalability in mind
- Gaining knowledge of multiple technical domains
- Share and clarify information to ensure that others in the team are kept informed
- Demonstrate the ability to create a collaborative environment within the team
- Actively contribute thoughts and ideas about how to achieve individual/team goals and support others in doing the same
Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science, a related technical or scientific field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer
- Mastery of one programming language and working knowledge of at least one other (Python, Node, Java, C/C++)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Mastery in one technical domain (threading, queuing, databases, messaging,...etc)
- Experience developing complex software systems on a cloud framework that have successfully been delivered to customers
- Familiarity with continuous integration and build tools
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, RabbitMQ among others
- Experience with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience with a cloud framework preferably AWS or GCP
- Experience in Leading major projects and Mentor more junior programmers.
- Experience in coordinating the release of features and working with the Product Owner
- Experience in planning the work of other team members and scheduling releases.
Zoro Values and Inclusive Culture:
Zoro is dedicated to fostering an environment where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are represented and valued. We aim to empower all of our employees to learn about, raise awareness of, and promote diversity and inclusion through all of our workplace interactions. Zoro is a place where everyone can learn, grow, and thrive.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
