Senior Software Engineer - Digital Experience Team

IPSY; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Work from home flexibility

Bonus program

Job summary

IPSY, a remote-first beauty platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Digital Experience team. You will design, build, and scale platform solutions using Next.js, TypeScript, Chakra UI, Kong API Gateway, and React Native, collaborating with Infrastructure, SRE, and Product teams to ship reliable experiences for millions of subscribers.

You'll own gateway services, observability, analytics, and AI enablement, driving performance improvements and building shared tooling that empowers

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.
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins), and deployments on Netlify or Vercel.
• Experience with observability/tools (Datadog), analytics/experimentation platforms (Statsig, Amplitude).
• Creative, precise problem solver focused on scalable platform solutions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support modern platform solutions in Next.js/TypeScript/ChakraUI.
• Oversee and optimize Kong API Gateway services and cloud deployments (AWS, Netlify, Jenkins).
• Build and support the mobile ecosystem (React Native) for reliability across surfaces.
• Develop analytics/experimentation tooling (Statsig/Amplitude) for data-driven decisions.
• Drive performance improvements across platform services to improve reliability and UX.
• Contribute to AI enablement across the platform with safe, reusable tooling.

Skills

6+ years experience

Platform engineering

JavaScript/TypeScript

Next.js

React

Problem solving

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or equivalent

Tools

Next.js

TypeScript

Chakra UI

Kong API Gateway

React Native

AWS

Jenkins

Netlify/Vercel

Datadog

Statsig

Amplitude

Job description

Join us in inspiring everyone to express their unique beauty.IPSY is the beauty industry's most powerful platform, uniting brands, creators, and hyper-engaged consumers with unprecedented access to each other through the ultimate beauty membership. Home to sample-size subscription IPSY Original, full-size subscription IPSY Extra, and quarterly, limited-edition collection IPSY Ultimate, we curate beauty for millions of members so they can play, explore, and express their unique beauty every day.Explore careers and learn more about our values, culture, and benefits across all our brands: We're proud to be a remote-first company.

Our fully remote team members have the chance to live and work where they want, because we believe work should fit into your life—not the other way around. We offer monthly virtual activities, company-wide offsites, professional development, and learning sessions, to help our team members stay connected, engaged, and impactful while working virtually.

United States Remote:

Remote positions which may be performed in any of the states where IPSY has established a Business presence:

We don't ask for software downloads (except Zoom) and we will never ask for sensitive information (like SSN/bank info). Suspect fraud? We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Digital Experience team (EDP). The team builds shared foundations - libraries, gateway services, mobile platform support, observability, experimentation/analytics, and AI enablement - that help Frontend and product teams ship reliably at scale for millions of IPSY subscribers across IPSY subscription programs (Original, Extra, Ultimate). You will design, build, and support modern platform solutions in Next.js / TypeScript / Chakra, Kong API Gateway, and React Native, partnering with Infrastructure, SRE, InfoSec, MarTech, and Frontend teams on IPSY's modern platform stack. This is a platform engineering role for a strong TypeScript/React engineer who also wants breadth across gateway services, mobile, observability, analytics, performance, and AI enablement.

This position reports to an Engineering Manager and can be fully remote (only from one of the 16

Please note that portions of the interview and onboarding process may be conducted in person at our office.

js / TypeScript / CharkraUI, 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Bonus if You Have:

• Experience building platform tooling or integrations that enable AI-powered product capabilities.
• Must be legally authorized to work full-time in the U.S. without requiring current or future visa sponsorship.

Competitive base salary & bonus program

• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• Work from home flexibility

EEO Statement:

We celebrate diversity and are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.

If you need reasonable accommodation in the application or employment process, please contact us.

LI-RemoteIPSY offers a bonus and competitive benefits.