Responsibilities
- Own and evolve multiple critical applications and services for long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead the design and architecture of complex, large-scale distributed systems, frameworks, and platforms across teams.
- Define and drive organization-level roadmaps for engineering and operational excellence.
- Conduct performance analysis and lead system-wide optimizations for scalability and efficiency.
- Drive technical planning, system design reviews, and estimation for large cross-team initiatives.
- Translate ambiguous requirements from product, data, and infrastructure stakeholders into scalable system designs.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.
- Establish and enforce best practices for coding standards, system design, observability, and reliability.
- Review and guide critical architectural and code decisions across multiple teams.
- Introduce emerging technologies and architectural patterns to improve system capabilities.
- Contribute to hiring, team building, and technical culture.
Requirements
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and advanced system design.
- At least 8 years of experience working on backend and distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Proven experience designing and scaling highly reliable, large-scale distributed systems across multiple services and teams.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and high-performance system design.
- Deep knowledge of system architecture, design principles, and trade-off analysis at scale.
- Experience driving organization-wide technical initiatives and architectural decisions.
- Strong focus on code quality, latency optimization, observability, and system reliability.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with significant ownership.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business teams.
- Proven track record of mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering culture.
- Preferred experience with cloud-native architectures, AWS, large-scale migrations or platform transformations, observability and monitoring tools, SRE practices, and high-growth consumer internet platforms.
Benefits
- Mission-driven work focused on sustainable, accessible retail.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale systems with cross-team organizational impact.
- Employment is contingent on a background check.
About Quince
Quince is a consumer technology platform rebuilding retail from the infrastructure up. The company began with a towel. A hotel-grade towel retailed for roughly $80. The manufacturing partner who made it sold it for about $7. Nothing about the product justified the gap. The gap was the system. Quince was built to replace that system. Its proprietary Manufacturer-to-Consumer (M2C) platform connects customers directly to the manufacturing partners behind some of the best-made products in the world, with demand signals flowing back to partners weekly so production follows what customers are actually buying, not a year-old forecast. No promotional calendar, no inventory built on guesses, no layered costs priced into the product. What differentiates Quince is not pricing. It is the system. The proof is in how the company operates: cost breakdowns published on product pages, a 365-day return policy, third-party lab testing, and products removed from the assortment at Quince's cost when they fall below the quality bar. Because the platform produces against real demand, the excess inventory that defines conventional retail is never made. Responsibility is built into the model, not added on top of it. Today, Quince offers curated essentials across 100+ categories, from cashmere and linen to fine jewelry and furniture, at prices typically 50 to 70 percent below comparable market prices, and is one of the fastest-growing consumer platforms in the industry. Visit Quince at quince.com or on Instagram at @onequince.