2 days ago
Base Salary
$96k - $119k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain production-grade Go backend services, multi-region systems, microservices, and event pipelines.
- Design scalable, low-latency services and RESTful APIs with resilient architecture and maintainable code.
- Design Postgres schemas, write SQL migrations, optimize queries, and implement Redis caching strategies.
- Use Google Cloud Platform, Apache Kafka, and Kubernetes to support distributed services and asynchronous messaging.
- Improve code quality through testing, code reviews, error handling, refactoring, and contributions to shared tooling and service templates.
- Create architecture documentation and high-level and low-level system diagrams.
- Own observability through metrics, logging, distributed tracing, SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, and alert tuning.
- Lead incident recovery, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and multi-sprint planning, estimation, and feature execution.
- Mentor and coach engineers, associate engineers, and interns while serving as a technical point of contact for partners and product managers.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining production-grade distributed systems.
- Expertise writing production backend services in Go (Golang).
- Strong experience with Apache Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes.
- Deep knowledge of relational schema design, SQL query optimization, caching strategies, microservices, RESTful API design, asynchronous messaging, and multi-region resilience.
- Strong expertise with automated unit, integration, and regression testing frameworks and test-quality metrics.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working in fast-paced Agile environments and making decisions with limited data.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangements with stated in-office expectations varying by location, including typically one or two days per week in Birmingham, Minneapolis, and San Francisco.
- Medical, dental, vision, and other coverage for employees and eligible family members.
- 401(k) plan eligibility.
- Discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Equal opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodation support for applicants and employees.
Tech Stack
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About Shipt
Through a community of shoppers and a convenient app, Shipt provides personal shopping and delivery and is available to 80% of households in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shoppers go above and beyond, communicating in real time about preferences and substitutions. A curated marketplace of retailers, Shipt offers access to a variety of stores and product categories including fresh foods, household essentials, wellness products, office and pet supplies. Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corp. Founded and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt also maintains an office in San Francisco. For more information, visit Shipt.com.