Senior Software Engineer, Deals at Scott's Cheap Flights

Senior Software Engineer, Deals
REMOTE 
ENGINEERING
FULL-TIME
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Deals team, you will “deal” in all things deals. Our deals pipeline is the beating heart of Scott’s Cheap Flights. We process billions of records from various sources daily to curate only the best flight deals for our members. The Deals team is constantly improving our data ingestion systems to keep deal data flowing across the engineering organization. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving the backend services that comprise our deals ecosystem.
Check out our SCF 2022 Wrapped to see our top five deals from this year along with the total number of deals we’ve sent out!
In the short term, you will:

 
Become familiar with our code bases, code style, tech stack, development and deployment process, and project management process
 
Contribute to the system architecture and design process
 
Give direction and oversight to junior engineers on implementation of the system designs you helped develop as well as being an individual contributor in the execution
 
Work with a cross-functional team to support development of new features
 
Refactor, QA, and improve existing code
 
Write and maintain robust tests to ensure the stability of our backend systems

In the long term, you will:

 
Be an expert with all of our tooling: Bugsnag, Metabase, Heroku, New Relic, and more
 
Bring creative solutions to projects to support the continual improvement of Scott’s Cheap Flights
 
Contribute to scaling our Deals pipeline and data ecosystem to enable machine learning capabilities
 
Cultivate relationships across engineering teams within SCF so that we continue to build a highly collaborative environment
 
Continue education/training. Everyone should be working in some way at all times towards the next step in their career
 
Mentor all engineers on the team and make your experience a valuable resource to everyone

What you bring to the table:

 
High autonomy: We don’t like being micromanaged, and we don’t like micromanaging others. Leading developers are those we trust to do what is right without leadership stepping in. You’ve demonstrated that you can accomplish complex tasks you’re assigned without hands-on oversight and direction.
 
Intellectual curiosity: You are motivated to try new methods and learn new technologies without direction to do so. You are always thinking of ways to improve existing systems or build better ones.
 
Great attention to detail: You have a nose for edge cases and can anticipate potential snags when discussing technical solutions.
 
Balance of refinement and pragmatism: We will lean on you to know when to dial in the perfect abstraction vs shipping simple, working code.
 
Excellent communication skills: We are a fully remote company that relies heavily on async communication. Staying tuned-in to our communications channels will be integral to your success here.
 
Resourcefulness: You lean on your experience to drive you to an optimal solution. When you don’t know how to solve a problem, you know how to comprehensively research to find the solution. You are the person that people talk to when they can’t figure something out.
 
Resilience: No one is perfect. You’ve made some mistakes, but you can acknowledge your failures and take full responsibility for them. By making mistakes, you’ve learned to avoid pitfalls and make architectural decisions that allow you to maneuver through challenges of uncertainty and complexity. You demonstrate and promote a culture of accountability and learning, not a culture of blame.

Must have’s:
Programming

 
4+ years professional experience in web application development
 
or completion or significant course work towards completion of a Computer Science degree / relevant certification program
 
or significant code that can be shown from personal projects and/or open source contributions.
 
Python/Ruby (minimum 2+ years experience)
 
Javascript (minimum 2+ years experience)
 
Other language (minimum 2+ years experience)
 
Strong knowledge with Unix based systems administration
 
Strong Knowledge of Database Systems and SQL
 
Strong knowledge of Git
 
Strong knowledge of asynchronous job systems (Sidekiq, Celery, etc.)

Nice to have’s:

 
MS/MA in Computer Science or related field of Engineering
 
Experience maintaining monolithic framework applications (Ruby on Rails, Django, etc.)
 
Experience maintaining Go applications
 
Extensive Ruby experience
 
Strong knowledge of data structures, software design patterns, relational and non-relational databases
 
Experience refactoring/rethinking legacy systems
 
Experience web scraping tools (Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, Scrapy)

Technologies we use:

 
Ruby on Rails is our primary server framework
 
React is our primary front end development framework
 
Postgres and Redis are our primary storage engines
 
BigQuery for our data warehouse
 
Heroku for deployments and infrastructure (migrating to AWS/EKS)
 
GitHub for source code management
 
Circle CI for continuous integration
 
Notion for documentation and collaboration
 
Jira for project management

Who you’ll work with:

 
You’ll report to Tyler Coles.
 
You’ll be on a squad with Greg Koeka, Willis Orlando, Christine Kim, and Rachel Smith.
 
You’ll collaborate across all of Engineering – a brilliant team of 13, soon to be 16!

Why you might love working here:

 
The salary for the position will be $148,732 + equity.
 
100% remote work environment, so go ahead and bring your dog to work or wear your PJ’s to the office!
 
$500/Quarter Remote Work Stipend
 
$75/month Physical & Mental Wellness Stipend
 
Open vacation policy, with a 3 week minimum!
 
Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance
 
401(k) with a 5% match
 
Up to 12-weeks of paid family leave
 
No Meeting/Flex Fridays
 
Meetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker
 
Continuing education & development reimbursement
 
Bi-annual team retreats (In September, we went to Zion National Park. In April we’re headed to Mexico City!)
 
Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day

We want you to bring your authentic self to work every single day. We accept you for who you are and consider everyone on an equal opportunity basis without regard to ancestry; age; appearance; color; gender identity and/or expression; genetics; family or parental status; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; mental, physical, or sensory disability; national, social or ethnic origin; past or present military service; sexual orientation; socioeconomic status; race; religion or belief.