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Job Description Summary:

Honey is a fast-growing startup based in Los Angeles, and we’ve recently joined the PayPal family to help supercharge our mission of creating fairness and value for everyone. We’ve built a community of over 20 million strong that uses the collective insights of our members to power an online shopping platform that allows everyone to shop smarter, together. We are looking for a Sr. Backend Engineer in our Los Angeles Arts District headquarters to help shape and scale a growing portfolio of products.

Job Description:

About the team: 

As a member of the Checkout Extension team, you will help us solve a complex problem – how to integrate Honey with millions of merchants, without requiring those merchants to do any of the work. In addition, you will contribute to building a streamlined checkout process that allows members to capitalize on all Honey products and offers with one click.  We’re looking at a variety of solutions – from brute force to machine learning and you will help us in finding our way! We’re also hard at work developing a proprietary data analytics platform that allows us to track user behavior across all of the merchants that we integrate with.  We use NodeJS and React, Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.  We love Typescript, solid testing and team spirit. 

About the Role: 

This Sr. Software Engineer will focus on building supporting services for a variety of checkout experiences we’re building in both our extension and our native apps. They will work closely with the other senior engineers on the team to put ideas into practice as prototypes and PoCs, in order to share promising discoveries with our Product and business partners. This will include working with PayPal engineers to understand how their tech can support our goals, as well as working with other Honey teams. 

What You'll Do: 

As a Sr. Software Engineer at Honey, you will: 

• Help architect and build back end services using NodeJS, Docker and Kubernetes 

• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests for your production code 

• Collaborate with 4-6 other engineers to architect solutions

• Apply your experiences to leverage and mentor the other engineers on your team

• Champion best practices, both on the team and across the organization 

About You: 

• 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer 

• Strong communicator – you can explain technical things to non-technical people, in speech and in writing 

• Excited to learn, and to teach 

• Experience with at least one back end framework, ie Rails, Django, NestJS 

• Experience with data stores – SQL, noSQL, etc. 

• Experience with Spanner is a plus 
   

At Honey, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive company. We seek to create a culture where everyone can belong because we believe that people do their best work when they can show up every day as their authentic selves. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.  

Subsidiary:

Honey

Travel Percent:

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Primary Location:

Los Angeles - Traction, California, United States of America

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