Senior Software Engineer, DIY Design Relevance - East Coast US Remote

Vista • Boston, MA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Our Team DIY Design Relevance is responsible for helping Vista’s customers find relevant and useful designs that match their business needs and that can be used to complete their objectives in marketing their business. As part of this, we maintain the primary design search service in Vista, maintain and extend backend processes to help map designs to products, work with content strategists to help add data to make designs discoverable, and improve the relevancy of designs returned by search. We have team members based in the US and Spain, and strive to promote a collaborative and participatory team culture. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Design Relevance team, you’ll be expected to collaborate with a hardworking engineering team in crafting highly available, scalable software. You will participate in multi-functional discussions with team members, product owners, and business partners while growing your skills every day by tackling challenging problems with talented engineers. Work in a team to maintain and extend our search APIs, including collaborating with our dedicated search domain experts, enabling customers to find the designs that best fit their needs. Add new features to our internal configuration tools used by internal users across Vista Help triage issues and debug production code Review and provide feedback on code written by other developers Work with our team to help translate front-end and API user requirements into new features Build out automation to deploy and test our code Collaborate with external teams and with other developers, including pair programming, design sessions, and documentation Recent projects our team has worked on include: Multi-domain initiative to extend our templates to make them scalable and responsive to user preferences Re-architecting our search backend to improve relevancy and include semantic search capabilities Building design grouping logic to help customers explore more templates while browsing Your Qualifications At VistaPrint, we are striving to hire individuals that add new ideas and perspectives to our teams and enhance our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you to apply—even if you feel that you don’t meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities.

Requirements

• Excellent coding skills in at least one object-oriented or functional programming language (C#, Java, TypeScript, Python or other similar languages).
• Experience with database design, querying, and optimization, both relational and NoSQL
• Experience with cloud platforms including storage and scalable micro-services
• A history of working in large code bases, including refactoring
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholder and to create technical documentation targeted at internal audiences
• Experience in API design and working with micro-services
• Computer Science, related Engineering degree, or relevant work experience

Nice To Haves

• Familiar with C# and modern .NET
• Familiar with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Familiarity with AWS, CDK, and GitLab
• Familiar with event-based architecture
• Familiar with Test Driven Design
• Familiar with monitoring tools such as New Relic

Responsibilities

• Maintain and extend our search APIs, including collaborating with our dedicated search domain experts, enabling customers to find the designs that best fit their needs.
• Add new features to our internal configuration tools used by internal users across Vista
• Help triage issues and debug production code
• Review and provide feedback on code written by other developers
• Work with our team to help translate front-end and API user requirements into new features
• Build out automation to deploy and test our code
• Collaborate with external teams and with other developers, including pair programming, design sessions, and documentation

Benefits

• We are an award winning Remote-First company.
• We’re an inclusive community.
• We’re growing (which means you can too).
• Vista offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, wealth and wellness programs, as well as long-term equity incentives, subject to eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level