Base Salary
$195k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ecommerce backend services, APIs, and customer-facing web and mobile applications.
- Lead complex features for browsing, discovery, product pages, cart, and checkout flows.
- Architect scalable services, APIs, data models, and systems for high-traffic ecommerce workloads.
- Collaborate with product, design, mobile, and engineering teams to define requirements and implement solutions.
- Debug complex performance, scalability, and system stability issues across the full stack.
- Drive engineering best practices for system design, testing, performance optimization, and architecture.
- Write documented, maintainable code and develop automated tests for reliable releases.
- Participate in code reviews, provide technical feedback, mentor engineers, and help raise the organization’s technical bar.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- 5–8 years of professional experience building full-stack applications and backend services in production environments.
- Strong experience designing backend services and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, or similar frameworks.
- Experience building modern web applications with JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, service-oriented design, scalable architectures, and performance optimization.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and scalable data models.
- Knowledge of web security principles and best practices.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, problem-solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives within cross-functional teams.
Benefits
- Mission-driven work focused on sustainable, accessible retail.
- Opportunity to work with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers.
- Bonus and equity may be provided for eligible roles.
- Employment is contingent upon a background check.
Tech Stack
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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.