Staff Software Engineer, Web

About the role

ABOUT POSHMARK

Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection. Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.

Poshmark is looking for a talented and creative Staff Web Engineer. The candidate is expected to create web applications that have a simple user interface and solid code that touches the lives of millions of users. The role will be dynamic and varied, requiring a versatile self-starter willing to dive into multiple initiatives. This role will provide an excellent opportunity to implement code that may run in production, at scale.

While having the opportunity to work with a talented team to rapidly roll out changes and measure their impact, while being mentored and guided.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for creating web application features.

- Develop a scalable, high performance and maintainable code.

- Work with web technologies built on Web, database, and caching technologies.

- Tune the performance for the web application.

6-Month Accomplishments

- Get familiar with the existing web architecture and code base.

- Should be able to independently drive the feature development.

- Have a good collaboration within the team. Also, with other teams like Product, Design, QA, devOps etc

- Should participate in technical discussions and be able to evaluate the design and architecture of the solution to the problems.

12+ Month Accomplishments

- Come up with ideas/changes to improve the application both from performance and scalability perspective.

- Establish yourself as technical lead for the web team.

Desired Skills

- 8 years software development experience, including at least 3 years in building easy to use, responsive web applications

- Experience in any of the following is highly desirable - Node, Vue, React, Angular, Ruby on Rails, NoSQL technologies (i.e. MongoDB), AWS.

- Skills in building web development stack.

- Understanding and designing RESTful web services.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

Why Poshmark?

Poshmark is a leading social commerce platform for the next generation of retailers and shoppers. Through technology, our mission is to build the world’s most connected shopping experience, while empowering people to build thriving retail businesses. Since launching in 2011, Poshmark has become a vibrant social shopping community with seven million Seller Stylists helping 60 million users discover items they love from over 100 million listings. The company is backed by the world’s leading investment firms including Mayfield http://www.mayfield.com/, Menlo Ventures https://menlovc.com/, GGV Capital http://www.ggvc.com/, Temasek http://www.temasek.com.sg/, Inventus Capital http://inventuscap.com/, Uncork Capital http://www.uncorkcapital.com/, Union Grove Venture Partners https://ugvp.com/, Shea Ventures http://www.jfshea.com/ and AngelList https://angel.co/. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com http://www.poshmark.com, or find us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/poshmark/, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Poshmark/, Twitter, https://twitter.com/poshmarkapp Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/poshmark/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/PoshmarkLIVE.