Software Engineer (Commerce Team)

About Stealth Startup

We are an early-stage Berlin-based startup, soon moving out of stealth mode (public launch upcoming) and have already raised two multi-million euro funding rounds from leading European investors.

We are building a product of data, machine learning, and tech solutions that will allow us to construct and scale a portfolio of D2C brands in the most operationally leveraged way possible. Our vision is to become a platform that runs 1,000s of stores at the highest of performances.

Our team combines deep expertise in tech, data, e-commerce and investing with successful track records from companies such as Google, McKinsey, and Goldman Sachs.

Position

Opportunity

• You will contribute across many areas of the company. As a founding Software Engineer, you will collaborate with our data/ML, acquisition, and e-commerce teams, and work on a wide range of open-ended problems. You will contribute to the development of both external and internal web applications, improvement of our infrastructure and Git/DevOps practices, exploration of new data sources, development of ELT pipelines and data visualization tools, and optimization of UX across our products
• You will take the scalability and sustainability of D2C e-commerce operations to the next level. You will develop proprietary software tools to facilitate scalable and sustainable operations of e-commerce brands at scale. Building robust user experiences, wiring up real-time interactions, and keeping performance in mind are all fundamentals
• You will have real impact on our culture and organisation. You will shape our engineering culture by sharing best practices, interviewing and mentoring new talents, and representing the engineering organisation in a cross-functional team 
• You will work and learn in a dynamic cross-functional context. You will work in a cross-functional team and share your findings with data scientists, business analysts, and e-commerce domain experts. You will develop a holistic understanding of e-commerce operations, principal investing, and the intersection between the two
• You will have real ownership. You will work together with talented and ego-free people, and will be afforded the responsibility and freedom to execute. You will be given the space and resources to excel

Your qualification

• You have a product mindset. You have a product mindset and can work effectively in a cross-functional team with data scientists, data engineers, e-commerce experts, and business analysts. You understand that “the best code is no code at all.” You can evaluate existing solutions and decide if there is one that works for our product and business 
• You know general engineering best practices. You are familiar with engineering best practices, e.g. testing, code reviews, design docs, CI/CD, practices of agile, logging, metrics, monitoring, A/B testing, etc. Your experience with system design and clean code will help us all move ahead as fast as possible and create the most value
• You are comfortable with the right tech stack. You are backend-focused full stack, and are comfortable with at least one web framework such as Phoenix or Rails. We use Elixir with Phoenix LiveView for our web applications; and Python with Streamlit, Plotly, and PyData stack for our internal tools. We are happy to help you learn Elixir. Python knowledge is a must 
• You know cloud technologies and products. You have experience with products for web developers on GCP (GCE, GKE, etc.) or other cloud providers. We use Kubernetes via GKE and Github Actions for our GitOps setup 
• You like to work on open-ended problems. You have a willingness to deal with ambiguous open-ended problems, work in a fast-paced environment, constantly learn and grow with the team
• You are a strong cross-functional communicator. You have excellent communication skills and a comfortable working in a cross-functional team with e-commerce experts, operators, and business analysts

Additional details

Our Company

• An international, motivated team of people passionate about revolutionising D2C e-commerce.
• A fast-paced, exciting work environment in a growing startup, backed by leading venture capital investors.
• Full autonomy and accountability for areas of responsibility.
• Hybrid work, flexible working hours, and opportunity to work (partly) remote if desired.
• A great office in Berlin Mitte with regular team events, sports sessions, dinners and other fun activities.