Senior Software Engineer 1, Picksy Services

People Inc.

United States

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 175,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Unlimited PTO

401K match

Job summary

People Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own design and implementation of scalable services across our Picksy platform. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate with product and design teams to deliver world‑class features.

The role emphasizes production readiness, performance, and cost optimization while working in a hybrid setup with three office days per week for those within commuting distance of major hubs.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
6+ years of professional technology experience.
Deep understanding of REST and service architectures.
Production services in AWS or GCP with containers and CI/CD.
Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS; some Java and GraphQL knowledge.
Frontend familiarity with HTML/CSS and Vue/Nuxt preferred.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable, highly available services.
Lead architecture discussions and mentor engineers.
Own production services end-to-end including monitoring and cost optimization.
Collaborate with product owners, designers, and engineers to translate requirements into features.
Provide documentation for services and best practices.
Drive tech debt identification and maintenance activities.

Skills

REST

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Elasticsearch

Job description

Job Title: 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.

Remote or Hybrid 3x per week

In-office Expectations: This position offers remote work flexibility; however, if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in New York, Des Moines, Los Angeles, Seattle, or Edmonton, the expectation is to work from the office three days per week.

About The Position | Major goals and objectives and location requirements

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.

Education

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

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

You have practical knowledge of modern development techniques and trends, and you are eager to continue learning. You have:

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 (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 hr@people.inc.

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees

Pay Range

Salary: New York: $150,000 - $175,000 Remote US: $140,000 - $165,000

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.

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