Senior Engineer - Full Stack (Customer Relationship Platform)

Job Description

About sweetgreen:

sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we’re committed to leaving people better than we found them. We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.

Reports to: Software Engineering Manager People leader: N Summary: A Senior Engineer is responsible for developing sustainable software systems that exceed business requirements. They share responsibilities regarding infrastructure and take the lead on continuous integration and deployment. They drive standards with their peers across the organization and mentor other engineers in best practices.

Senior Engineers promote strong design principles as they relate to scalability, disposable resources, automation, loose coupling, service oriented design, databases, removing single points of failure, cache, cost, and security.

Core Work Activities:

Development: Supports advanced full stack development (e.g., front end, back end) of key features in sweetgreen's products by understanding and translating project requirements, using DRY, SOLID and YAGNI code design principles to write code, review and test code, and troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes. Calls for and implements continuous integration and deployment in all projects.

Maintenance: Monitors performance of system engineering solutions, documenting issues, escalating complex issues and resolving moderate issues.

Prioritization: Supports multiple stories at once and prioritizes simultaneously to meet critical deadlines.

AGILE Methodology: Participates in AGILE teams supporting company objectives and key results (OKRs).

Minimum Qualifications for Successful Performance:

• 3+ years developing and leading large-scale technology initiatives.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages and the ability to propose alternative solutions.
• Proficiency working in multiple software languages and frameworks
• Experience with AGILE methodology.
• Thorough grasp of best practices across all focus in technology (e.g., Client, server, automation, deployment, QA).
• Expert-level knowledge in modern web development practices, especially those relating to service design.
• Proficiency with AWS offering.
• Design experience with RDS and various databases such as Postgres and MySQL.
• A strong desire to experiment with bleeding edge technology and understand relating market trends.
• Strong problem solving, communication, collaboration and negotiating skills.
• Strong time management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with Node.js, Ruby, and Rails and/or related frameworks and languages.
• A degree in computer science or a related field is preferred.
• Experience building applications and websites for world recognized brands where load and scale have been a focus.
• Experience with GraphQL
• Expertise with React and React Native.
• Experience writing RESTful APIs.
• Experience deploying website and mobile application A/B testing.
• Experience building personalization tools.

What you'll get:

• Competitive pay + bonus plan granted based on performance
• Health, dental + vision insurance
• Flexible PTO, because we respect the need for work/life harmony
• An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
• To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
• A collaborative family of people who live our core values and have your back
• A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
• Free sweetgreen swag
• Complimentary sweetgreen

Come join the sweetlife!

sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

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