Software Engineer

Spoiler Alert is a CPG and retail tech company focused on transforming surplus inventory into opportunities for retailers. They are seeking a Software Engineer to build a platform that enhances how CPG suppliers and retail buyers transact, utilizing AI-powered tools to improve operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Design, write, review, test, and deploy code across our stack with quality and velocity, effectively incorporating AI coding tools productively and responsibly based on product needs and technical understanding
• Develop and extend automated unit, integration, and end-to-end test suites
• Collaborate on data modeling, application architecture, and technology decisions including what’s working, not working, and ideas for how to improve
• Thoughtfully plan and estimate development, communicating tradeoffs and risks early
• Participate in shared support duties and help maintain the reliability of our systems
• Contribute to pod feature definition, design, and technical direction, not just execute against it
• Improve documentation and knowledge sharing across the Engineering team
• Partner with Product and Design to understand what we're building and why, and bring technical perspective into those conversations early
• Actively seek mentorship and provide it where you can
• Use Friday focus time to build skills that matter to your growth and our roadmap
• Participate in learning and growth opportunities — book clubs, tech guru sessions, share & tells
• Deepen your understanding of Spoiler Alert's industry, customers, and mission over time

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Solid fundamentals: you commit clean, tested, maintainable code and take ownership of what you ship
• AI-native chops: you productively integrate AI into your development workflows to build with curiosity and strong opinions loosely held
• Experience with web application development across the stack, comfortable contributing to both backend and frontend work (we use TypeScript, React, Express)
• Familiarity with data modeling and working with databases (we use MongoDB)
• Effective collaborator and communicator across engineering, product, data, and design
• Experience differentiators: food and beverage or CPG industry background
• Marketplace or auction-based platform experience
• Applied AI/ML feature development
• Strong test engineering practices