Software Engineer- Platform Team (LA)
About Route
Route is helping people discover and celebrate the world's brands through a completely reimagined e-commerce marketplace that directly connects and empowers both consumers and brands. Route’s unique platform takes a holistic approach to online shopping, rethinking the consumer experience from discovery to delivery via the Route app, while offering a suite of features that provides merchants the tools necessary to enhance the overlooked post-purchase experience. Since launching in 2018, Route has built a network of over 1.5 million app users and 7,000 merchants. The company has offices in Lehi, UT and Los Angeles, CA. For more information go to route.com
About the Role:
Route is looking for engineers for its platform team. These team members are building key services that support the larger engineering ecosystem at Route. They are responsible for designing, building, scaling, and ensuring the reliability of these key services that power the platform of Route.
As part of a team providing core system functionality that other engineers will build upon, we are looking for engineers who can not only tackle tough technical problems, but also collaborate and evangelize best practices across teams. We value engineers who can bring fresh ideas and are willing to own solving problems all the way to a solution. They need to be comfortable working in a fast paced startup culture where there is tremendous opportunity and the change that comes with it.
Your participation:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor and improve backend software
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Embody a culture of innovation, transparency, and radical candor
Minimum qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science
- Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience with one or more general purpose languages, e.g. Go, C/C++, Java, C#, or other compiled/semi-compiled language
- Interest and ability to learn other languages as needed
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with one or more of the following: AWS, SaaS software systems, microservices, REST API design
- Go experience a plus
- Experience contributing to architecture decisions on systems with high security, reliability, and scalability requirements
Benefits:
Route offers an array of benefits including generous salaries, stock options, 100% healthcare coverage, and an unlimited PTO policy.
Route is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.