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

Cimpress/Vista•Boston, MA

5d•Remote

About The Position

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. 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. VistaPrint is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. For over 20 years we’ve been inspired by small businesses, and we work incessantly to deliver solutions to their evolving needs. Together, VistaCreate, 99designs by Vista and VistaPrint represent a full-service design, digital and print solution, elevating small businesses’ presence in physical and digital spaces and powering them to achieve success. VistaPrint is focused on making great marketing and design accessible to every small business owner, allowing them to create a cohesive brand image for use in-store, online and on-the-go. VistaPrint exists to help our customers live their dreams. Each dream is unique – and the VistaPrint team needs to be as well. We believe in the unique contributions of everyone within a diverse global organization. We are collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. We strive to role model and live an inclusive culture of fairness, respect and belonging for all. And we work together to empower each other, creating a space in which each of us can spark our next great idea.

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

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