About Super.com
We started
Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.
About this team
Super.com engineering has four full-stack product development focus areas: fintech, travel, earnings, and a Super+ membership program to unite them all. Our dozens of microservices and event-driven architecture handle thousands of requests and events per second, ingest over 1TB of data per day, and process over $1MM per day in sales, leveraging state of the art infrastructure. We have 80 highly skilled engineers across our teams and we work in close partnership with Product Managers, Designers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced, scaleup environment (that respects work/life balance). We focus on driving business value through ambitious technical achievement, and place a huge emphasis on providing the structure to fast-track our team members' growth.
About the Role
We are looking to bring on a full-stack Staff Software Engineer for our Super+ vertical. This vertical consists of 5 full-stack engineering teams, along with Data, Design, and QA to support shipping world-class products. As a Staff Software Engineer you will work cross-team, be a go-to technical expert, and help architect and tackle our most complex technical challenges.
Challenges you'll solve
- Play a central role in architecting our services, frontends, databases, and mobile app.
- Tackle technical challenges relating to how we unify our products into our Super.com app and ensure a high quality user experience
- Be a go-to full-stack technical expert acting at the intersection of multiple teams helping to mentor other less experienced team members.
- Propel the business forward by driving high-impact projects, leveraging other engineers and teams as appropriate in some cases serving as the cross functional context holder ensuring efficient delivery when cross functional work is necessary.
- Work across multiple codebases, as you contribute to them, improve them, and share findings and suggestions with other engineers at guild meetings (technical guilds discuss and set engineering standards)
- Help shape the technical roadmap for the engineering organization by contributing to OKR brainstorming sessions
- Create and present cross-team and cross-eng technical presentations focused on improving developer experience, engineering productivity, and processes
- Be largely self-directed in terms of project selection and execution
- Report into the Engineering Director for the vertical
Our Tech
- We use a state of the art architecture powered by Node and Python microservices and React frontend
- We use Postgres for storage, Redis for caching, and Snowflake for our data warehouse
- We use Gitlab for version control and CI/CD, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, making use of Kubernetes, RDS, etc
- We invest heavily in monitoring and automated alerting using Datadog
- We use Amplitude, Hotjar, and LogRocket for client-side metrics and experimentation
- We integrate with a multitude of third-parties to support our compliance, risk, and security policies
About you!
- You have a total of 10+ years of work experience in Software Development, including at least 5 years as a Senior Software Engineer or at least 2 years as a Staff Software Engineer / Sole Technical Lead / Architect.
- You have worked on large-scale projects, defined either by QPS, active users, or data volume, and have demonstrated the ability to design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and reliable systems.
- You have at least senior technical depth in full-stack development including frontend, web servers, and databases
- You have been a technical lead (not necessarily people lead) for shipping major projects, have worked with multiple complex codebases, and have worked across teams
- You have mentored more junior engineers (not necessarily reports)
- You are highly motivated / passionate, versatile, and looking forward to working in a fast-paced startup environment, with an emphasis on delivering business value
- You have experience owning production services, working in an agile environment, and collaborating with Product Managers, Designers, and business stakeholders
- You have experience working on cross-functional projects
- You have strong knowledge of modern web technologies, system design & architecture, and microservices, and keep up-to-date with them
- You are an excellent communicator, for both technical and non-technical topics
We've got you covered!
- Competitive salary packages, equity options, great benefits from day one, wellness budgets, as well as personal and team-level development budgets
- We are remote first – you have the flexibility to work from around the world and the hours that make sense for you– so that you can do your best work while living life on your own terms
- Other perks include: unlimited PTO, recharge days, travel discounts on SuperTravel, Weekly UberEats credit
- We welcome new family additions with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan
- This is just scratching the surface – check out our careers site for a more detailed overview of our perks & benefits
We Believe in Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify our Talent Acquisition Partner.
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Last updated on Oct 9, 2024