Staff Web Engineer

Warby Parker•New York, NY

1d•$183,750 - $210,000

About The Position

Warby Parker is on the lookout for a Staff Web Engineer to help drive the evolution of our mission critical business systems. In this role you’ll take ownership of the development, design, testing strategy and standards of the Warby Parker web application. You’ll also help establish best practices and guidance around all aspects of our technology in order to help build a best-in-class technology discipline. Think you’ve got the goods? Keep reading.

Requirements

Backed by 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experienced building modern and performant frontend applications with or more modern client-side frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js) in a professional setting
An expert in domain modeling and system design
Someone with deep technical experience with cloud providers, distributed systems, and service-oriented architecture
A clear, concise communicator with the ability to influence others
Someone with a strong belief in accountability, who holds engineering teams to a high standard
An expert in data modeling in one or more modern relational databases
Someone with strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Able, willing, and just plain excited to learn new domains quickly
Insatiably curious and passionate about innovation
Not on the Office of Inspector General’s List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)

Nice To Haves

Direct involvement with open source software projects
Experience optimizing the JavaScript performance of high-volume systems
Experience using Vercel

Responsibilities

Help build and design a roadmap for your engineering team to build highly scalable, observable, and reliable systems
Drive the execution and delivery of this roadmap across the engineering organization, working closely with stakeholders, SREs, and other principal engineers
Provide technical guidance and facilitate the process of engineering design reviews on migrations towards service-oriented architecture, changes to existing architecture, and making existing systems more scalable
Build a metrics-driven operational culture support our practices for KPI measurement and review, as well as for logging, monitoring, alerting practices
Propose and drive large improvements to business systems to achieve significant impact to our business
Mentor and coach other engineers to be help solve technical challenges and grow overall technical prowesses