Stitch Fix-posted 5 months ago
$136,700 - $201,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
5,001-10,000 employees

As the Senior Lead Engineer on Fulfillment Platform, you will help to set the technical direction for the systems that orchestrate Stitch Fix’s warehouse and transportation networks. You will focus on development and roadmapping against key application enhancements to support floor efficiency, accuracy, and system reliability—all while mentoring engineers and driving industry best practices. Your work will directly influence how quickly and economically we delight clients, unlock inventory, and grow our margins.

  • Influence the evolution of our multi-carrier shipping platform—rate shopping, label generation, tracking ingestion, and returns workflows.
  • Design fault-tolerant services that reconcile hundreds of thousands of carrier events per day and surface real-time shipment status to downstream systems.
  • Ensure comprehensive visibility into warehouse operations and precise ingestion of new merchandise.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and thoughtful feedback, fostering a culture of high standards and continuous learning.
  • Instrument, monitor, and tune our services for reliability, latency, and cost.
  • Translate business goals (cost, delivery promise) into technical roadmaps that balance short-term wins with long-term scalability.
  • 5-8 years of software engineering experience.
  • Proven experience designing large-scale, event-driven or distributed systems (ideally in fulfillment, logistics or e-commerce).
  • Experience implementing and managing integrations with a wide range of external logistics and technology partners that power warehouse and transportation operations.
  • Track record of leading engineers through ambiguous, cross-functional projects and delivering production software that moves key business metrics.
  • Fluency in at least one modern programming language (we primarily use Ruby, Go, and Python).
  • Proven experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) plus a knack for picking up new technologies fast.
  • Built production services on a major cloud platform - AWS, GCP, Azure or similar, and are highly skilled with modern observability stacks like Datadog.
  • Practical knowledge of optimization, forecasting, or decision-science techniques.
  • Bias for automated testing, continuous delivery, and observability as non-negotiable facets of quality.
  • Strong communication skills—able to translate between technical details and business outcomes for stakeholders at every level.
  • Competitive salary
  • Medical, dental, vision, and other benefits
  • Equity in the form of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance
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