Backend Software Engineer, Recharge
Core Commerce
Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce
Open for applications
Subscriptions & recurring payments for eCommerce
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create a world where payments are frictionless, and help merchants grow faster.
Role
Who you are
- A knack for engineering simple solutions to solve complex problems
- Self-driven; pragmatic; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes
- Ability to work remote-first in a high-growth company
- Ability to demonstrate high self-sufficiency to take on and complete projects promptly
- We need our engineers to be versatile, display ownership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward
- Experience with Python, Serverless, Kubernetes, and Cloud Platforms such as GCP or AWS, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
- Demonstrable expertise with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
- Typically, 3+ years of relevant full stack development experience across back-end such as Python, Nodejs, and front-end experience including JavaScript and/or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent
- Familiarity with micro-service architecture
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or other STEM-related field or equivalent work experience
- Demonstrable cloud computing experience
- Prior e-commerce experience preferred
- We're looking for engineers with cloud computing experience who like to collaborate closely with others and relentlessly seek ways to improve our code base, processes, and themselves
- You love remote work, but not working alone. You love not commuting to work, but you also love collaborating to clarify, confirm, theorize, figure out, and decide on solutions to problems
- You love exploring ideas with rapid prototyping and prioritizing the ones that have an immediate business impact
- You love tackling challenges on different fronts like code, infrastructure, documentation, and evangelizing new libraries and services to stakeholders
- You love the fast-paced nature of the eCommerce world
- You are good at breaking up work into near, mid, and long-term phases so you can deliver value all along the way as you work toward a clear overall direction
- You love rapid iterative design and development while gaining context and understanding along the way. You can recognize when you know enough to take the next useful step to deliver value
What the job involves
- The Core Commerce Org at Recharge is composed of several teams and is responsible for services core to our business, including Subscriptions, Orders, Customers, Credits, Discounts, Shipping, Taxes, Integrations with Shopify, and more
- They work to maintain and improve these services from an operational perspective, as well as continue to build pivotal core features for our merchants and their customers
- You should thrive in taking ownership of end-to-end solution design and delivery while extending our Subscriptions and Rewards platforms
- Build high-impact, high-performance, high-scale products for development teams to succeed in the delivery of features
- Understand roadmap priorities and write frontend and/or backend code focused on scalability, testability, supportability, and maintainability
- With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Debug production issues across stack
- Perform thorough code reviews and provide useful constructive feedback
- Contribute to cultivating a positive team environment
- Demonstrate a willingness to lean in as needed when duty calls
Our take
Ecommerce platform Recharge has been in operation since 2014, helping brands set up and manage a subscription business, removing the operational inefficiencies that brands would face when attempting to manage this themselves. Its cloud-based subscription management platform aims to offer merchants flexibility by leading with an API focus.
Recharge’s basic premise has proven a smart one, with the eCommerce subscription market growing substantially since the company was founded. It of course rose particularly steeply over the pandemic, with the closure of brick-and-mortar stores, but in general still follows a market trend towards direct-to-consumer relationships - promising a growing market for Recharge going forwards.
Success for the company has been clear, with its merchant roster boasting several thousand users including Harry’s, Oatly, and BrewDog. The sector has attracted substantial funding, with Recharge completing a remarkable funding round in 2021. This came atop its already stable, cash-flow-positive business, and supported its further progress as the subscription industry developed. The company is focused on maintaining its strong position, with new updates and improvements to its offering including Retain, a suite of tools designed to support retention throughout the subscriber lifecycle.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2021
$227m
SERIES B
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $277m
Company benefits
- Equity packages
- 401(k) offering
- 100% coverage for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your dependents
- $700/mo remote-life stipend
- Monthly stipend to cover health and wellness
- Coworking space
- Subscription products
- Unlimited paid time off
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave to eligible team members
- Team & company retreats: We value making in-person connections. Past locations include San Diego, Vail, Seattle & Orlando
Company values
- Day one - Stay ambitious, open-minded, optimistic, and ready to learn. Every day counts towards building the future.
- Ownership - You are accountable to yourself, your peers, and our customers. You believe that your work impacts the mission.
- Empathy - You anticipate the needs of others. You communicate clearly and with care, always striving to do the right thing.
- Humility - Approach every task with an open mind, learning with and from your peers. You value effective collaboration above rank.
Company HQ
Mid-City, Santa Monica, CA
Articles
Leadership
Oisin O'Connor
(CEO)UCLA Economics graduate who worked as an Analyst at Deloitte before co-founding three companies, all centred on commerce and payments.
Michael Flynn
(CTO)Studied Mechanical Engineering at UCLA, before co-founding a number of companies, including Opportunity Green.
Diversity & Inclusion at Recharge
Patrick Sutton (Sr. Director, DEI & Employee Experience)
- You Belong: At Recharge, we are committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion. One where everyone feels they belong. Our culture is a result of our behaviors, our commitment to our values, and our own personal commitment
- Specific initiatives: Currently we have our inclusion hq slack channel that has created a community that will provide a sense of belonging on diverse topics that are impacting marginalized communities and groups from around the world. It’s a highly engaged community channel and it will help bridge any blindspots that we uncover when learning about other communities
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