At Relay Commerce (Permanent) Expires at: 2024-04-03 Remote policy: Global remote About Relay Commerce: Relay Commerce is building the best environment to grow software companies. We're acquiring bootstrapped e-commerce software tools with the goal of accelerating growth through investments in people, processes, and infrastructure. Relay acquires businesses directly from founders and transitions the day-to-day business management to one of Relay's Portfolio CEOs, who are supported by the product team as a critical function to design and deliver the software central to each Relay company. About the Role: The staff engineer is a technical leader within the organization, able to design, break down, and complete engineering projects of the highest complexity. The staff engineer role is able to mentor and lead project teams and co-own the success of the product team with the Engineering Director. The product team collaborates across functions to organize the development cycle into sprints with inputs from marketing and customer success. Primary Responsibilities: Be a partner to the CEO, working closely with them to deliver the business vision and strategy in equilibrium while maintaining a healthy engineering environment for product growth. Be an inspiring technical leader to the team, guiding and collaborating with all stakeholders to deliver large features and improvements while maintaining a high level of quality. Solve technical challenges of the highest complexity with minimal guidance. Promote innovation within the team by exploring new solutions to problems impacting product growth or team performance. Identify and develop a technical vision complementing the business vision. Advocate for improvements to product quality, performance, observability, maintainability, and security. Ensure the product meets Relay's Engineering guidelines on technical practices, software delivery, and operational performance. Advocate and guide the team toward DevOps adoption. Iteratively identify and drive improvements to processes and guidelines. Lead by example and encourage documentation for clarity, transparency, and efficient communication in an all-remote workplace. Provide mentorship for other engineers and help them grow as technical contributors and thrive independently. Demonstrate Relay's four Core Values in all professional interactions Main requirements The ideal profile has: 12+ years of production Ruby experience. Strong experience with JavaScript (vanilla or framework-specific). Strong experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL. Significant experience with high-traffic Sidekiq setups. Highly desirable: experience with infrastructure on AWS/GCP. Highly desirable: experience with observability tools. Strong sense of ownership. Ability to balance business needs and deliver high-quality solutions.
