Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

IPSY is the beauty industry’s most powerful platform, uniting brands, creators, and consumers. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform team, responsible for building shared foundations that support Frontend and product teams in delivering reliable solutions for millions of subscribers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain shared components, libraries, and common services using Next.js / TypeScript / CharkraUI, enabling Frontend teams to build and scale efficiently
• Oversee and optimize Kong API Gateway services, including LUA scripting, and partner with Infrastructure on cloud deployments across AWS, Netlify, and Jenkins to ensure secure, reliable system performance
• Build and support the mobile application ecosystem (React Native), ensuring platform reliability across customer-facing surfaces
• Implement and improve monitoring and observability capabilities using Datadog to maintain system health, operational visibility, and incident response
• Build and evolve the experimentation and analytics platform, enabling product teams to measure engagement, run experiments, and make data-informed decisions using tools such as Statsig and Amplitude
• Drive performance metrics improvements across platform services and customer-facing surfaces, identifying bottlenecks and delivering optimizations that improve reliability and user experience at scale
• Contribute to AI enablement across the platform, building shared tooling and patterns that help engineering teams integrate AI-powered capabilities safely and efficiently

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience developing platform or full-stack applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with Next.js and React
• Experience designing and maintaining shared libraries, common services, or internal platform components used by multiple engineering teams
• Hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway, including LUA scripting
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins), and deployments on composable platforms such as Netlify or Vercel, in partnership with Infrastructure teams
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog), product analytics or experimentation platforms (e.g., Statsig and Amplitude), and performance measurement at scale
• A creative, precise problem solver with a strong focus on building modern, scalable platform solutions
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort partnering with Infrastructure, SRE, and security stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience with Storybook, design systems, and component libraries such as Chakra UI
• Experience building platform tooling or integrations that enable AI-powered product capabilities
• Experience working in subscription and/or e-commerce companies