Company Name: Stitchfix

Job Details: $103.4-152kThis position is eligible for an annual cash award depending on employee and company performanceGCPGoPostgresSwiftMySQLAzureSlackZoomDatadogJunior, Mid and Senior levelRemote from US

Job Url: https://app.welcometothejungle.com/jobs/r4POCdeI

Job Description: RoleWho you areYou bring 2–5 years of backend engineering experience delivering production services; familiarity with e-commerce, logistics, SaaS, or platform-oriented systems is a plusYou’re fluent in at least one modern systems language—our core stack is Go and Ruby—and have proven skill with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL), plus a knack for picking up new technologies fastYou have solid CS foundations (data structures, concurrency, networking) and you are comfortable analyzing performance on tier-1, high-traffic APIsYou write clean, test-driven code and you leave the codebase clearer, better-documented, and easier to observe than you found itYou ship with confidence—using CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, canary releases, and swift rollbacks to deploy safely and keep our performance metrics healthyYou’ve run production services on a major cloud platform—AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar—and are comfortable with modern observability stacks like DatadogYou have familiarity with event-driven or streaming architectures—Kafka, Pub/Sub, etcYou enjoy digging through unfamiliar services, logs, and metrics to find and fix root causes fastYou are a clear communicator and a collaborative teammate: you translate technical trade-offs into business terms, give/receive thoughtful code reviews, and work easily with product and opsYou exhibit a strong growth mindset: you actively seek feedback, mentor where you can, and share knowledge to raise the whole team’s barWhat the job involvesThe Stitch Fix Inventory and Fulfillment Innovation team is looking for a bright and kind Software Engineer to join us as we revolutionize how Stitch Fix creates and manages inventory assortments to serve every client’s unique styleOur work is core to Stitch Fix’s biggest ambitions for the next decade: building innovative inventory models and fulfillment methods that dramatically expand our ability to serve an infinite range of personal stylesYou'll help us move rapidly from scrappy proof-of-concept releases to scalable, production-ready systemsThis role will collaborate closely with partners across merchandising, operations, finance, algorithms, and data platform engineering to power our business with low-latency, highly available, and accurate inventory systemsHelp build the future of inventory at Stitch Fix, balancing fast experimental development with long-term scalable system designJoin a team that values mutual trust, learning, and personal growthWork in a collaborative remote environment, using tools like GitHub, Slack, and Zoom extensivelyParticipate in a culture of code reviews, pairing, and open dialogue to help each other growGain exposure to high-value business processes and directly contribute to Stitch Fix’s client experienceShare this jobReport a problem with this jobHide companyView 9 more jobs at StitchfixInsightsLed by a womanTop investors-7% employee growth in 12 monthsGlassdoor (3.2)Trustpilot (4.3)CompanyCompany benefitsLeadership, managing people program, career journey & other training opportunitiesCompany equity for eligible rolesMedical, dental and vision benefits401(k) planUnlimited vacation for qualified rolesCompetitive parental leaveEnjoy 40% off of Fixes plus access to quarterly sample salesCollaborative workspaces - Open floor plan with standing desks & living room seating throughoutFunding (last 2 of 4 rounds)Jun 2014$30mSERIES COct 2013$12mSERIES BTotal funding: $47.6mOur takeShopping online for clothes is not always a fun experience. Finding clothes you like is only half the battle. Sizing guides and return policies seem to have been designed to be challenging to understand, and can also vary wildly from company to company.Stitchfix sets out to change this by making online clothes shopping personalized and hassle-free. Customers take a survey on their personal tastes, and pay a one-off fee for a stylist, to receive a box of 5 personalized items. Then, they simply pay for any items they keep, or return what they don't want free of charge. The stylists fee is deducted from the first purchase and if they keep all 5 items, they receive a discount.Stitchfix's unique blend of technology, and human touch in styling, allows the company to deliver its personalized experience at scale, with its growing data sets putting them in a great place to predict consumer trends and preferences. Unfortunately, the company has been hit hard by the current economic climate - cutting staff back in June 2022 as well as again in early 2023. Only time will tell if this once exciting brand will be able to bounce back from this bump in the road and find success again in the future.StephCompany Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle