Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Harry’s is looking for a talented, experienced software engineer to join our team to focus on building and improving the harrys.com web application and associated systems. The Harry’s website serves millions of customers, so this is a great opportunity to do impactful work at a huge scale.
About the Team
The Engineering team at Harry’s is responsible for building the software to support all e-commerce activities: from building customer-facing, responsive interfaces to tools for managing fulfillment and order processing. In the last year, our team built features like Mystery Item and browser payments, launched new body wash and soap products, launched our first new brand Flamingo using the JAM stack, built a Pride campaign, held a H’ackathon that produced some features like Quick Add, and did many more awesome things.
About the Role
We need someone who can step in and help build a Direct To Consumer brand that customers continue to love and continue to grow the engineering talent on our team. In this role, you’ll act as a versatile contributor able to work in both the frontend and backend of our application. You’ll be working closely with product management and design teams to achieve business goals while driving engineering excellence and best practices in our engineering organization. Systems and software you build will help us serve thoughtful and delightful customer experiences in a way our retail competitors cannot.
What you will accomplish:
- Build high-quality software and be an advocate for engineering best practices across the engineering team.
- Work closely with our Product and Design teams to solve customer pain points that will continue to demonstrate how much we value them.
- Plan out and execute new features and initiatives.
- Participate in and take ownership of our agile planning, code reviews, testing methodology, and on-call systems, and think critically and constructively about how to improve and shape those processes.
This should describe you:
- You have 5-7 years experience in developing web applications, with deep expertise in JavaScript and frontend frameworks, backend languages and technologies, testing, and performance.
- You have experience working with React and/or Rails.
- You are pragmatic, and understand the trade offs in making technical and architectural decisions.
- You are always seeking opportunities to improve your own work as well as the team.
- You are humble, and leave your ego at the door. You are able to take feedback gracefully and act on it, as well as give thoughtful feedback.
- You are enthusiastic about being a resource and mentor for the people on your team.
- You’re seeking to drive tangible impact in your next career opportunity.
- You are an experienced engineer whose worked heavily across the stack in large-scale, high-visibility applications.
- You understand that building software is a team effort and an ongoing endeavor.
- You have a passion for solving complex and tough problems and thrive in a culture of innovation.
About Harry’s:
Harry’s Inc. started in 2013 with simple, fairly priced products that delivered an amazing experience to guys every day. Since then, Harry’s expanded to the UK, developed relationships with retailers such as Target and Walmart, expanded our grooming brand into a personal care powerhouse, and launched a women’s brand called Flamingo.
The key to our success? Our amazing people. From chemists, mechanical engineers, CX associates, to creative directors, sourcing managers, and logistics specialists, Harry’s team is comprised of some of the most brilliant, diverse, and humble people you’ll ever meet.
Our brands answer unmet consumer needs, but our company is a place of inclusion and innovation that attracts some of the brightest minds across industries, geographies, and backgrounds. Whether we have a team of 3 or 300, our core values and our startup mentality remain; we value continuous improvement and learning, teamwork and collaboration, creative problem solving, and open and direct dialogue and feedback. Come for the coffee and free products, stay for the amazing, passionate culture.
Harry’s is committed to bringing together individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives. We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do great work together. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, veteran status, sex, parental status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company.