Principal Software Engineer

Warby Parker is a transformative lifestyle brand offering designer eyewear at a revolutionary price while leading the way for socially-conscious businesses.

We’re looking to hire stellar Principal Software Engineers to join our 50+ person onsite Engineering team and help build the next great lifestyle brand.

• Provide subject matter expertise in the design and development of e-commerce systems
• Build and improve software systems for a fast-growing, disruptive e-commerce company
• Evaluate and mentor engineers on your team
• Collaborate in one of our agile teams, learning anything necessary to deliver exceptional technology
• Participate in code reviews and help maintain high standards of code quality
• Deliver limited-defect products through ubiquitous test automation

Who you are:

• At least 6 years professional programming experience
• At least 2 years experience building e-commerce applications
• Experience building large and complex (but maintainable) systems and web apps
• Mastery of at least one statically typed and one dynamically typed programming language
• Expertise in data modeling in one or more modern relational databases and SQL
• Agile development experience
• Solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals
• An appreciation for beautiful code
• Experience with ansible
• Experience with SQL Alchemy
• Good design taste, even for internal applications
• An aptitude and inclination for learning new domains quickly
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Strong desire to support and commit to open source software projects

Extra credit:

• Experience with multiple languages, web frameworks, and datastores
• Mastery of Java, PHP, or Python
• Web service design and implementation (e.g. REST, JSON-RPC, SOAP/WSDL)
• Comfortable with Linux/Unix
• Cognizant of DevOps practices and principles
• Direct involvement with open source software projects