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Stord is a comprehensive logistics and supply chain technology company that powers the entire consumer experience for e-commerce brands. By offering advanced order management software and fulfillment services, Stord enhances pre-purchase engagement, streamlines physical fulfillment, and provides robust post-delivery support. 

Their solutions are designed to optimize costs and elevate consumer delivery experiences, serving a diverse range of clients across multiple sectors. 

Storage • 3PL Management • Warehousing • Distribution • Third Party Logistics


1001 - 5000 employees


Founded 2015

🛍️ eCommerce

Principal Software Engineer
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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

Cloud

Distributed Systems

Docker

Elixir

Erlang

Google Cloud Platform

Grafana

Kafka

Kubernetes

Microservices

Prometheus

RabbitMQ

React

TypeScript

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📋 Description
• Define and articulate technical vision and strategy for scalable systems, aligning with business objectives and customer needs
• Identify and prioritize high-impact technical initiatives across OMS, Billing, WMS, and other core systems
• Work closely with product management to develop and refine the technical roadmap
• Drive architectural decisions that will scale across multiple product teams
• Write high-quality, maintainable code in Elixir/Phoenix
• Architect and implement scalable, fault-tolerant systems leveraging Elixir's concurrency model
• Build and maintain robust data pipelines for data ingestion, processing, and transformation
• Ensure the performance, reliability, and security of distributed systems
• Work hands-on with GCP cloud services and modern infrastructure practices
• Design and implement event-driven architectures and real-time systems
• Provide technical direction and guidance to engineering teams
• Lead system design and architecture with focus on simplicity and maintainability
• Mentor engineers and foster continuous learning and professional development
• Partner with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize work
• Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing, and software development practices
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives and contribute to scaling processes, tools, and technologies

🎯 Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus (in recent years) on the Elixir programming language
• Proven track record of architecting and implementing complex, distributed systems in production environments
• Strong understanding of functional programming principles and concurrent system design
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP
• Experience building data pipelines and working with large datasets
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Expert proficiency in Elixir/Phoenix and the OTP ecosystem
• Strong understanding of data engineering principles and practices
• Experience with database systems, data warehousing, and event streaming platforms
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (React, TypeScript) is a plus
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of distributed system patterns and microservices architecture
• Ability to define and articulate a clear technical vision
• Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Ability to influence and guide technical teams without direct management authority
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Ability to collaborate effectively with other Principal Engineers and teams
• Bonus: previous startup experience, previous Staff+ positions, logistics or supply chain experience, experience with OMS/WMS/TMS, GenServer patterns, Phoenix LiveView, Erlang/OTP supervision trees, distributed Erlang clusters, message queues and event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ), observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana), contributions to open-source Elixir projects