Senior Software Engineer - job 1 of 2

The Role

RevolutionParts is looking for a talented and dedicated senior back end developer to help evolve our technology to support our next phase of growth. You'll be joining a team of professionals who are fiercely dedicated to using technology to revolutionize an industry not known for being high-tech: auto parts.

If you want a clear-cut role with the same tasks for years, this is not for you. If you like to Think Big and work on a variety of projects, we need you! 

*Please note that this is a hybrid role that requires that you work from our Tempe, Arizona, offices at least 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays). If you are not local to the Phoenix metro area, then you must indicate on your application that you are willing to relocate, or you cannot be considered for the role.

• We have 50 million parts in a DB. Create a back-end technology stack that can support real-time dynamic search of these parts (Google style) -- think "2010 accord water pump". Keywords: ElasticSearch, node.js, parallel processing ??
• We have a history of 700,000 orders. Create a recommendation engine that will suggest other parts along with what a buyer already has in their cart. Oh -- and the recommended part has to fit the same car. Return the result in 100 ms or less. Keywords: Uhm, we're not sure, research technologies that might help accomplish this.
• Create a clean public REST API for parts dealers to import orders that they get from sources other than our stores. Keywords: Authentication, JSON, good API design.
• Create an internal shopping cart service that can manage millions of carts a month. Keywords: memcached/redis, NoSQL, scaling, availability
• We need to spin up 50 servers on AWS to crunch some numbers every month. Let's automate that.

• You and your team will work day to day with Product Management and UX/UI to design and build solutions for our industry, drive the implementation and release of major features, and be a champion of best practices for writing well-tested, well-organized code.
• You’ll design and implement your features to be secure, scalable, and resilient. You’ll be a driver for positive change to RevolutionParts’ engineering culture, processes, and technology.
• Challenges will range from things like building features, integrations, and libraries to designing and building externalizable APIs, automatic data classification, and high-volume secure services and UI components.
• You will work with some of the strongest engineers you’ll meet in your career, and you will become a stronger engineer during your tenure with the company, no matter where you are today.

• You're not afraid to learn new technologies and attempt problems you haven't faced before. 
• You have 5-10+ years of experience and hungry for new challenges
• You have a solid (pun intended) understanding of OO design and computer science fundamentals.
• You have experience designing APIs (internal or external) and high-availability systems.
• You know what OWASP means without Googling it.
• You design data schemas and implement database solutions (SQL and/or NoSQL) in your sleep.
• You have strong experience with one or more modern languages.  We primarily use PHP and JavaScript. (We don't care if you aren't strong in PHP - but you will have to learn to be strong in it.)
• It's helpful if you're comfortable building and deploying applications using modern cloud technologies (especially AWS), building and CI/CD tools (Github, docker, k8s), observability (NewRelic APM, DataDog, Elasticsearch), and that you are an evangelist for automated testing (especially unit and integration tests).You prefer the dynamic and fast-paced nature of a smaller team.
• You have a GSD attitude - Get Sh*t Done

Are you not sure you meet 100% of the qualifications? You should still give it a try!  Research shows that men will apply to a job when only meeting 60% of the requirements, whereas members of underrepresented groups typically only apply when they meet every single requirement. At RevolutionParts, we are Revolutionaries.  We build tools, products, and our people. We value diversity in backgrounds and thought, so take a shot and apply! Please highlight some of your accomplishments in your resume and cover letter so we can talk about how you can grow with us.