Staff Engineer

Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. As a Staff Engineer on the Core Integrations team, you will lead the technical strategy for high-scale systems and collaborate with other engineers to ensure architectural excellence and operational standards.

Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture and technical quality for all applications developed by your team
• Lead the design and evolution of highly available microservices using technologies like Golang, Postgres, Redis, and Kafka, and will be responsible for defining and driving the technical roadmaps for these core services
• Drive strategic initiatives to optimize the stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical systems, ensuring they remain the robust, efficient backbone for Shipt's retail partners
• Regularly work across and influence Product, Platform, and other engineering teams to align on technical direction, prioritization, and solution design
• Translate complex, multi-team business requirements into elegant and maintainable technical specifications
• Establish the domain-wide standard for operational excellence
• Champion sophisticated observability, proactive monitoring, and sustainable on-call rotations, ensuring our shared services maintain maximum robustness and health
• Set the highest bar for engineering fundamentals, including test coverage (Unit, Integration, E2E) and code quality
• Conduct deep-dive design reviews that foster continuous learning and elevate best practices across the organization
• Evaluate and evolve engineering processes (CI/CD, RFCs, Post-mortems) to eliminate systemic inefficiencies and improve team velocity without sacrificing quality
• Architect services with a 'Security-first' mindset, scrutinizing third-party libraries and ensuring data protection standards are woven into the initial design phase rather than added as an afterthought
• Create and advocate for high-quality technical documentation, including high-level architecture diagrams and low-level workflow schemas, to ensure system maintainability

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software development experience, specifically building and maintaining complex, highly distributed systems in cloud environments at significant scale
• Deep expertise in Golang (or similar systems languages) and a sophisticated understanding of relational databases, advanced caching strategies, and message brokers (Kafka)
• A proven ability to diagnose, resolve, and prevent complex bottlenecks in distributed architectures, high-volume services, and database query performance
• You are a dedicated mentor who can grow the careers of those around you, specifically acting as a resource and guide for Senior Engineers, Engineers and Associate Engineers
• You thrive in environments with high degrees of freedom, taking full architectural ownership and driving the 'Definition of Done' for your services from concept to operation
• You possess the judgment to balance the need for architectural purity with the reality of business delivery, knowing when to build for the long-term future and when to iterate quickly for immediate impact
• A data-driven approach to engineering; you use metrics to improve test runtimes, code performance, and to define meaningful SLIs/SLOs for your domain
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Agile Methodology
• Apache Kafka
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Go Programming Language