Senior Platform Engineer - Digital Experience (Remote)

IPSY; Florida; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid Time Off

Work from home flexibility

Free IPSY Extra subscription

Learning & development programs

Job summary

IPSY is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Digital Experience team to build a scalable modern platform across Next.js/TypeScript, React Native, and Kong API Gateway. You will design shared libraries, optimize gateway services, and collaborate with Infrastructure, SRE, InfoSec, and MarTech.

Role is fully remote within the US, reporting to an Engineering Manager, with opportunities to work on observability, analytics, AI enablement, and performance across IPSY's subscription platforms.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience developing platform or full-stack applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with Next.js and React.
• Experience designing and maintaining shared libraries, common services, or internal platform components used by multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway, including LUA scripting.
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins), and deployments on composable platforms such as Netlify or Vercel, in partnership with Infrastructure teams.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog), product analytics or experimentation platforms (e.g., Statsig and Amplitude), and performance measurement at scale.
• A creative, precise problem solver with a strong focus on building modern, scalable platform solutions.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort partnering with Infrastructure, SRE, and security stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain shared components, libraries, and common services using Next.js / TypeScript / ChakraUI, enabling Frontend teams to build and scale efficiently.
• Oversee and optimize Kong API Gateway services, including LUA scripting, and partner with Infrastructure on cloud deployments across AWS, Netlify, and Jenkins to ensure secure, reliable system performance.
• Build and support the mobile application ecosystem (React Native), ensuring platform reliability across customer-facing surfaces.
• Implement and improve monitoring and observability capabilities using Datadog to maintain system health, operational visibility, and incident response.
• Build and evolve the experimentation and analytics platform, enabling product teams to measure engagement, run experiments, and make data-informed decisions using tools such as Statsig and Amplitude.
• Drive performance metrics improvements across platform services and customer-facing surfaces, identifying bottlenecks and delivering optimizations that improve reliability and user experience at scale.
• Contribute to AI enablement across the platform, building shared tooling and patterns that help engineering teams integrate AI-powered capabilities safely and efficiently.

Skills

6+ years JS/TS

Next.js

React

Kong API Gateway

AWS

Datadog observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

Storybook

Chakra UI

Netlify/Vercel

Jenkins CI/CD

Job description

IPSY is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Digital Experience team to build a scalable modern platform across Next.js/TypeScript, React Native, and Kong API Gateway. You will design shared libraries, optimize gateway services, and collaborate with Infrastructure, SRE, InfoSec, and MarTech.

Role is fully remote within the US, reporting to an Engineering Manager, with opportunities to work on observability, analytics, AI enablement, and performance across IPSY's subscription platforms.