Staff Software Engineer

RevolutionParts is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to evolve its technology as the company grows. The role focuses on building scalable systems for automotive-parts eCommerce, including search, recommendations, APIs, shopping carts, and cloud-based data processing.

Responsibilities:

• Using AI tools responsibly to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and problem-solving
• Exercising strong judgment around data privacy, accuracy, and ethical use
• Continuously learning and adapting as AI capabilities evolve
• We have 50 million parts in a DB. Create a back-end technology stack that can support real-time dynamic search of these parts (Google style) -- think "2010 accord water pump". Keywords: ElasticSearch, node.js, parallel processing ??
• We have a history of millions of orders. Create a recommendation engine that will suggest other parts along with what a buyer already has in their cart. Oh -- and the recommended part has to fit the same car. Return the result in 100 ms or less. Keywords: Uhm, we're not sure, research technologies that might help accomplish this.
• Create a clean public REST API for parts dealers to import orders that they get from sources other than our stores. Keywords: Authentication, JSON, good API design
• Create an internal shopping cart service that can manage millions of carts a month. Keywords: memcached/redis, NoSQL, scaling, availability
• We need to spin up 50 servers on AWS to crunch some numbers every month. Let's automate that

Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S
• Proven examples of using AI to improve outcomes in prior roles is expected
• 10+ years of progressive, hands-on software development experience building scalable web applications
• Experience leading teams using various Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban to deliver software products
• You are AI-forward. Talk to us how you leverage AI to accelerate outcomes and drive impact
• Deep understanding of OO design and all Computer Science fundamentals
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field - OR over 15 years of software development experience
• Experience working in a cloud-based software development environment, preferably with AWS
• Experience working in a constantly growing and changing environment
• Experience working in multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Experience with payments and/or eCommerce
• A growth mentality - willing to own problems
• Good communication and collaboration skills; comfortable discussing projects with anyone from end users up to the executive company leadership
• Great interpersonal skills including a positive can-do attitude and sense of humor
• A desire to GSD - Get Stuff Done!
• Candidates in the greater Phoenix Area will be preferred
• if you have the experience we need
• Masters Degree in Computer Science
• Experience with Marketplaces