Senior Software Engineer 1, Picksy Services

Shoptalk; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Picksy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 1 to own design and implementation for scalable, available services. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture, and collaborate with product and design teams to deliver high-quality features.

Responsibilities include building foundational services, leading code reviews, and driving technical debt reduction while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency in a hybrid in-office role with optional remote days.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant field.
• 6+ years of professional technology experience.
• Deep understanding of REST and scalable service architecture.
• Production services in AWS/GCP with containers and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve foundational services powering Picksy.
• Design and implement new services, APIs, and monitoring functions.
• Own production services end-to-end; diagnose issues and improve reliability and cost.
• Lead code reviews and mentor engineers to uphold code quality.
• Drive technical debt prioritization and document services clearly.
• Collaborate with org to align on best practices.
• Deliver high-quality, complex services under tight timelines.

Skills

REST

Architecture design

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

GraphQL

HTML/CSS

Vue/Nuxt

NoSQL

Elasticsearch/Solr

AWS/GCP

Containers

CI/CD

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Senior Software Engineer 1, Picksy Services

Job Description

Picksy is our next-generation product discovery platform connecting shoppers with the things they love across thousands of retail partners. Users save, organize, and share products they're excited about — and our platform turns those signals into a deeply personalized shopping experience. This team owns the foundational product data, services, applications, and integrations that power the Picksy experience.

Hybrid 3x per week

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Picksy Services, you'll take ownership of solution design and implementation for scalable, highly available services, while mentoring other engineers and helping shape the team's technical direction. You'll work closely with product owners, designers, and fellow engineers to translate requirements into prototypes and world‑class features, and you'll be a go-to voice on architecture decisions and best practices across the team.

You will:

• Partner with engineers across data, web, and mobile experiences to build and evolve the foundational services powering Picksy.
• Design and implement new services, APIs, and operational monitoring functions.
• Own production services end-to-end – investigating issues, resolving bottlenecks, and proactively identifying opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost.
• Lead code reviews and mentor other engineers, setting the bar for code quality and advocating for best practices across the team.
• Drive the identification and prioritization of technical debt.
• Provide thorough, readable documentation for the services you own.
• Partner with engineers across the org to establish and align on shared best practices.
• Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, and deliver high-quality, complex services under tight timelines.

About The Positions Contributions

Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

50% Feature implementation

Work closely with stakeholders, product owners, and tech leadership to plan and create new services, features, and enhancements.

15% Architecture

Lead technical design of new and expanding systems; drive identification and prioritization of technical debt; proactively identify opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost.

15% Maintenance

Own production services end-to-end; investigate, troubleshoot, and implement fixes for bugs and operational issues.

10% Review, Mentorship & Testing

Lead code reviews and mentor other engineers, setting the bar for code quality; work closely with quality‑assurance engineers to facilitate feature testing and contribute to automated test coverage.

10% Requirements Analysis

Consume non-technical user stories, providing feedback when necessary, translating into technical documentation, and/or using as a basis for implementation.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or relevant industry experience.

Experience:

• 6+ years of relevant professional technology experience.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

• Demonstrated deep understanding of REST, service architecture, monitoring, and the tenets of horizontal scalability.
• Experience developing complex and highly available services running in a production environment with SLAs.
• Extensive knowledge of object-oriented and functional software design patterns, including those commonly used within large web application platforms.
• Proven experience developing and owning production services and applications deployed in AWS or GCP, leveraging containers, continuous integration, and codified infrastructure.
• Extensive experience using Node.js, TypeScript, and the NestJS framework, with some knowledge of Java and GraphQL.
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS and frontend web frameworks such as Vue or Nuxt (strongly preferred).
• Knowledge of NoSQL data stores, graph databases, indexing, distributed locking, media transformation, and search engines such as Elasticsearch or Solr.
• Experience working in an Agile environment, translating user stories into technical tasks and estimating effort effectively.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading architecture discussions, advocating for your approach, and mentoring team members.
• Motivation to learn new technologies and grow as a developer.

Travel Required (Approximate): 0%

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing [e-mail].

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Pay Range

Salary: New York: $150,000 - $175,000

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.