Principle Software Engineer

Remote position: USA time zone-prefer EST but open to any US Times zone

Who we are:

Drip (dripshop.live) is the shopify for social commerce; using it’s AI-enabled tools, sellers can interact and transact safely and seamlessly on Drip’s social marketplace and social media platforms. Since launching, drip has enabled creators, resellers & brands to generate 10s of millions in income. We are backed by leading investors and notable angels including Base10 Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Harlem Capital & Eniac Ventures.

Our Values:

We are seller first

We are customer obsessed

Engaged with the community we build for

Embrace in radical ownership

Value radical candor

Strive to be excellent

Make the case for optimism

Who you are:

• Passionate about (or excited to learn about) our core collectible categories (Pokémon, Magic, sports cards, and other trading cards)
• Full Stack Engineering w/more focus on backend, with experience building and launching products
• Structured, process-oriented, and data-driven
• Love working in a fast-paced startup environment and a small team — juggling multiple
• priorities and making things happen
• Excited to help build something new and define the future of live commerce
• Flexible, collaborative team player

Roles & Responsibilities:

This is an advanced Individual Contributor with some team lead

• Architect, design and implement a scalable real time systems.
• We are building live stream platform, that has many Web Socket events for Realtime updates across various users.
• Contribute to product development helping the team build backend for live stream commerce
• Monitor system and identify bottlenecks and improve system stability.
• Research better ways to implement various aspect of systems
• Contribute to both frontend and backend with an emphasis on the backend development

Required background:

• 8 or more years after college
• Deep full stack experience weighted to the backend
• Past experience building scalable systems. with a minimum 5k to 10k request per sec
• Experience with ReactJS and heavy NodeJS
• Strong experience with GraphQL
• Strong experience with ORM's
• team leadership and skills to work with mobile engineers
• Architect micro services and build real time systems
• Solid experience with web sockets
• Comfortable architecting, coding and can do test driven development.
• Ideal candidates have worked on building scalable real time apps, for companies like Discord, Twitter, Slack, Agora, Ably, Pubnub, Pushr as examples

Benefits:

• Remote-first company with the opportunity to travel for team meetings and conferences
• Competitive compensation
• Drip credits
• Flexible PTO
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

Our Commitment to Inclusive Hiring:

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.