Principal Software Engineer at Bluecore, Inc.

Principal Software Engineer

Bluecore is a Retail Performance Cloud specializing in artificial intelligence - based workflows. Our unique ability to leverage machine learning to match customer data with real-time product and behavior enables brands to build intelligent, marketing communications and personalized campaigns in seconds vs. days. More than 400 retail brands, including Staples, Perry Ellis, Teleflora, Tommy Hilfiger and Best Buy Canada, increase their performance with less effort leveraging our products. Bluecore has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor and is ranked No. 241 on the Inc. 500 List, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies

We are looking for Principal Software Engineers to work across our engineering teams to build scalable, extensible, reliable, and performant systems that provide significant company and industry level impact. Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced startup environment that allows them to take ownership over their work, add considerable value, and play a hand in driving the overall growth and success of Bluecore. Our stack consists primarily of Python and Golang on the backend, and JavaScript (React) on the frontend. We use Google Cloud hosted infrastructure services including Google App Engine, Kubernetes/GKE, BigQuery, and Cloud SQL. We hold a true “Tech-First” mentality here at Bluecore, enabling us to build an Engineering organization that values constant innovation and encourages its members to bring in new ideas, try them out, and really implement them. Bluecore’s Engineering team is made up of exemplary engineers who believe in working collaboratively to solve complex technical problems and build creative solutions that are as simple as possible, but as powerful as necessary.  We emphasize a culture of making good tradeoffs, working as a team, and leaving your ego at the door.

Responsibilities:

• Design, architect, and build performant, reliable, high-quality systems at scale within one or more engineering domains. Provide significant engineering contributions even in domains with less expertise.
• Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and cross-functional engineers to deliver high quality products.
• Function as a sought-out mentor and leader for a technical domain or set of domains across the company.  Act as a role model for every engineer in the organization and promote Bluecore engineering values to the company.
• Increase the technical capabilities and upper limits of your own areas of responsibility and expertise, as well as those of your associated team members.  Teach sessions, write documentation, and actively mentor to decrease the ramp up time of new and existing team members.
• Plan, design, and roadmap extremely large and complex projects with difficult and intertwined dependencies that push the boundary of what the engineering team and the entire business is capable of.  Promote coding standards, styles, and design principles across the organization.
• Proactively identify technology opportunities for the company, and push technical ideas, proposals, and plans to the entire organization and beyond through presentations, technical specs, blog posts, and documentation.  
• Lead company-wide technical strategy and decisions and facilitate progress by building consensus amongst senior engineering leadership and company leadership.  Advise and advocate for best tools, methods, and approaches for the entire engineering organization.
• Evangelize Bluecore Engineering internally and externally, including leading external initiatives to promote Bluecore Engineering in the wider community.

Requirements:

• 14+ years of relevant professional experience, preferably within a similar industry or technology space. 
• S./B.E in one of the following departments (i) Computer Science, (ii) Computer Engineering, (iii) Information Sciences, (iv) Electronics, (v) Mathematics, or relevant field/equivalent work experience.
• Significant programming expertise. Experience with languages such as Go, Python, C++ or Java.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
• Deep understanding and domain expertise in building large, complex distributed and/or data-driven systems from inception to launch.  Extensive experience pushing multiple product releases and/or feature iterations, with an eye towards scalability, reliability, cost, and optimization.
• Is a leading expert in one or more engineering domains, such as stream processing, big data, feature development or product engineering, and regularly contributes to technical communities external to Bluecore.
• Experience executing large refactors in the codebase that impact cleanliness and efficacy of product or system-wide infrastructure.  Experience leading the redesign or migration of a codebases, feature set, or system architecture ideal. 
• Capable of owning engineering and company level issues or gaps, and successfully planning and executing towards resolution, all while continuously identifying and exploring additional opportunities and proactively preventing upcoming risks.
• Experience developing technical roadmaps and estimates that have pushed product and business growth over several quarters.  Has a proven track record of successfully completing work that spans multiple teams and quarters, creating large impacts to business success.  
• Experience excelling within a high-growth, startup environment or building out a new team/function within a larger company preferred.
• Experience with technical team mentorship, including guiding other engineers to become more effective technical leaders and providing feedback on best practices in code and design. 
• Able to identify your team's dependencies on other areas and across functions, communicate effectively to remove any immediate blockers, and propose and implement process changes that strengthen and maintain efficiency. 
• Adept at effectively communicating with external customers about critical production issues, as well as working with internal stakeholders from Bluecore’s customer success and support teams to propose and implement immediate fixes and resolution plans.

At Bluecore we believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences.

Bluecore is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fair hiring practices and to creating a welcoming environment for all team members. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, familial status or veteran status.