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