Stord
Cloud Supply Chain | Fulfillment, Transportation & Technology
Senior Engineer, Platform Services
Location
United States
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsElixirType Script
Job Description
• Own the design, development, and operational health of shared services including authentication/authorization, eventing/messaging, API gateways, and shared libraries
• Establish clear service contracts, SLOs, and integration patterns that product teams can rely on
• Maintain and improve service documentation, onboarding guides, and self-service tooling for consuming teams
• Translate architectural direction from the Principal Engineering Group into production-quality implementations
• Build reference implementations that demonstrate how product teams should integrate with shared services
• Identify and resolve technical debt in shared services that slows product team velocity
• Write clean, well-tested, production-ready code—this is a hands-on building role
• Contribute to the technical strategy for unifying Stord’s product suite into a composable marketplace of services
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one of: Elixir or TypeScript. Willingness and demonstrated ability to learn the other quickly
- Experience designing, building, and operating shared services or platform capabilities consumed by other engineering teams
- Track record of taking ownership of ambiguously-scoped technical problems and driving them to resolution
- Comfort working across multiple codebases and navigating unfamiliar systems
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: service contracts, event-driven architectures, API design, and failure modes
- Clear technical communication—ability to write effective design documents and explain trade-offs to varied audience
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options