Senior Backend Engineer - Checkout & Fulfillment Lead

stitchfix; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary

Equity

Annual bonus

Health benefits

Job summary

Stitch Fix is seeking an engineering leader to set technical direction for checkout, order creation, fulfillment, and partner integrations. This hands-on role covers discovery through production, collaborating with product, engineering, inventory, fulfillment, and operations.

You will own multi-sprint initiatives, build reliable services for end-to-end order lifecycles, and document tradeoffs while balancing speed and maintainability.

Qualifications

• At least five years of software engineering experience building and operating complex backend or distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Ruby, Java, or Python and ability to work across languages.
• Strong relational database experience and cloud platform operations.
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives from discovery to launch and follow-through.
• Clear communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Own multi-sprint initiatives from problem framing and design through rollout and post-launch measurement.
• Build reliable services and workflows for checkout, order lifecycles, and partner integrations with data consistency, failure handling, and recovery.
• Document technical options and tradeoffs balancing delivery, maintainability, and velocity.
• Align partners on scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and success measures tied to business outcomes.
• Improve testing, observability, rollout, rollback, incident response, and remediation.
• Review designs and code, and mentor engineers to strengthen team practices.

Skills

Go

Ruby

Java

Python

Relational databases

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kafka

Temporal

Datadog

Job description

Stitch Fix is seeking an engineering leader to set technical direction for checkout, order creation, fulfillment, and partner integrations. This hands-on role covers discovery through production, collaborating with product, engineering, inventory, fulfillment, and operations.

You will own multi-sprint initiatives, build reliable services for end-to-end order lifecycles, and document tradeoffs while balancing speed and maintainability.