Technical Lead / Senior Staff Software Engineer, Favor
Contact-free food and essential order service
Open for applications
Contact-free food and essential order service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a more connected community to get anything delivered through an affordable and personalized service.
Role
Who you are
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience or familiarity with one or more of the following technologies: Java, Kotlin, Scala, PHP, Python, Node.js, C#, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, DocumentDB/MongoDB, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch
- Ability to get hands on and write clean, well structured code but also be able take a step back to focus on product strategy and execution
- Ability to lead larger initiatives working with the product, design, and engineering teams
- Strong understanding of all aspects of software engineering including test automation techniques, data engineering, security and devops
- Ability to gather and define software requirements considering multiple patterns and strategies to build efficient solutions
- Knowledge of how different parts of a system architecture will work together and can diagnose issues within the system
- Ability to communicate difficult technical concepts in precise, concise, and unambiguous terms
- Ability to interact with Vendors, external Partners, Suppliers to evaluate tooling, products and integration solutions meeting technical and security standards
- Appreciate simple design
- Experience defining and evangelizing technical solutions and strategies
- Love to write clean, well-tested code - test first or TDD approaches a plus
- Enjoy working with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment
- Have experience in a high-growth startup
- Communicate well with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A true full stack engineer who owns every part of engineering including: design, development, deployment, debugging, monitoring and support
What the job involves
- As a Senior Staff Tech Lead at Favor you will be responsible for all phases of development, testing, and deployment of our applications
- Responsible for defining solution architecture to include evaluation, selection and integration of necessary technical components that realize the defined functional, non-functional and security requirements
- Act as the technical point of contact for your given pillar of Favor Engineering
- Collaborate with other technical leads and engineers across all disciplines to design unified cross-squad solutions and help manage the technical debt roadmap
- Work with product partners across multiple squads to understand and solve complex business problems, by presenting various solutions and technical concepts in a comprehensible manner and then be able to break them down into manageable iterations for a smooth product flow
- Get hands-on coding with a strong emphasis on architectural changes that address tech debt and increase developer productivity
- Lead and participate in troubleshooting application incidents, resolving deployment issues, integration failures, ability to mine the logs, coordinate cross functional triage and provide long term implementation guidance
- Eliminate barriers to scale through technology and process and providing building blocks of first-class applications and distributed services
- Understand company and squad goals, and develop technical solutions, vision, and strategy to advance the company's priorities
- Challenge the status quo and bring your experiences to look at things differently and Identify new technologies, strategies and processes that can help provide business value
- Define and contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise
- Be an advocate for devops solutions, automation and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines
Our take
More and more people are looking to get things delivered fast, and businesses are trying to find inventive ways to meet the demand and get people’s purchases to them as quickly as possible. Favor solves this problem, with an on-demand delivery service that depends on “runners” to get products to customers quickly.
Customers can browse on the Favor app and select items from their list or input items from other stores in the delivery zone, and Favor runners will collect the item and deliver it within an hour. For customers in a hurry, this is obviously appealing. While many on-demand delivery services struggle to scale, Favor itself has managed to scale its operations across Texas and expanded into Philadelphia in mid 2022.
This centralization has given the company an advantage over competitors who have since gone out of business, but it isn’t yet clear if other competitors will imitate Favor's approach to gain market share. The company faces strong challenges from deep-pocketed rivals like DoorDash and Uber Eats.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2017
$22m
SERIES B
Mar 2015
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $35m
Company benefits
- We offer premium health, vision, dental, life and 401(k) options. We go beyond the basics with complimentary meals, commuter benefits, dependent care, and of course - Favor delivery credit and H-E-B discounts
- With a fitness center in the office, we equip you with ways to stay healthy and happy. Any complimentary meals and snacks always feature health options
- Whether you’re an avid cyclist, dog lover, or Magic enthusiast, there’s a group for you here. We foster community through beer Fridays, quarterly company-wide events, and regular connection opportunities
- Our HQ, the Eastside Tech Hub, is located in the heart of East Austin and boasts multiple lounge areas, a coffee bar, library, fully stocked kitchen, wellness center with bouldering wall, and more
- We offer unlimited PTO for salary employees and ample vacation time to all team members. We empower you to live your best life and do your best work!
- We encourage personal growth and education through regular Learning Labs taught by internal team members and external facilitators
Company values
- Keep running - We have lofty goals and the only way to achieve them is to hustle through the challenges. Don’t stop ‘til Tokyo!
- Good vibes - We bring our best selves every day. No matter what comes at us, we attack our work with positivity and resilience
- Own your sh*t - Your position here is valuable and you were chosen for a reason. Be purposeful with your actions and hold yourself accountable
- Community first - We’re connected to the people around us. We don’t just run in someone else’s shoes, we also know the path they took and how they got there
Company HQ
Holly, Austin, TX
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Founders
Keith Duncan
(CEO, not founder)Began working at the company as SVP of Sales & Business Development and was promoted to CRO within 4 years. They then worked as CRO at Orchard before returning to Favor as CEO in 2023.
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