Senior Software Developer

Senior SDE, Generalist with focus on back end eCommerce systems.

We are Rivet & Sway , an early-stage, seed-funded eCommerce startup seeking to disrupt a traditionally offline retail segment: prescription eyewear. This is a $16B US market of which less than 2.0% was sold online in 2010. We’ve built a brand to serve a highly targeted customer segment: busy, fashion-conscious women. Our goal is to make buying prescription eyewear the easiest, most affordably luxurious, and wondrous purchase delivered to any woman’s door. We’ve invested a year researching our target customer, building the brand platform, designing and manufacturing our eyewear collection, and launching our website. We’re now building the team to hit the ground running to grow customer acquisition and topline growth.

We are looking for our first technical hire – the rockstar software engineer who will help us build the technology platform, innovate the customer experience, and lead the eyewear category for women. You may be whom we’re looking for if you are:

* A generalist, focused on middle tier or back end systems, but with enough experience on client side technologies like xHTML, CSS, JS, and JQuery to dig into front end issues and ideas.
* An open-source champion, you can be the genie of the LAMP when needed, and you’re comfortable with the “P” being either Perl, PHP, or Python.
* A natural collaborator, you know that team building won’t happen just from a daily Scrum. You enjoy partnering with other engineers, you’re a successful communicator to third party software providers, and you’re delighted when the UX team seeks your input on new features.
* A pragmatic architect, you know what a scalable eCommerce back end should look like. You also are comfortable with the exigencies of startup development. You’ve shed the “Not invented here” bias and know how to leverage and integrate existing solutions for EDI, inventory control, and logistics.
* You’re naturally curious, self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity and change, and you work best in a small heavily collaborative group.
* You’re a quantitative thinker who seeks data for decision making. You “measure twice, code once”.


Specific qualifications:

* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
* 5+ years professional experience in software and web development
* Java, C++ experience rounded out with a modern scripting framework like Python or Ruby.
* Skilled at software best practices and development methodologies: OO, design patterns, test-driven development, agile methodologies, pair-programming.
* Expertise with making the various moving parts of an ecommerce backend dance in concert: CMS, EDI, Database, Inventory, Logistics.
* Prior startup experience highly preferred
* Seattle-based candidates only, please