Staff Engineer — Storefront & Web Platform

Quince; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and equity may be provided

Job summary

Quince in Palo Alto, CA seeks a Staff Engineer to lead end-to-end storefront initiatives across Home, CLP, and Recommendations. You will own architecture, drive performance, and mentor engineers, partnering with product, design, and data science to shape scalable plans.

The role demands 8+ years of full-stack web experience, distributed systems knowledge, and a data-driven mindset. Base salary ranges from $230,000 to $275,000 USD, with potential bonus and equity for eligible roles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-stack web development experience
• Experience building highly reliable distributed web applications at scale
• Proven track record driving large technical initiatives end-to-end
• Raised engineering quality through standards, tooling, or mentorship
• Knowledge of frontend and distributed system architecture fundamentals
• Experience with A/B testing frameworks and data-driven experimentation
• Advocate for high standards in code quality, latency, and observability
• Able to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical design and delivery for major Storefront initiatives across discovery, browse, PDP, cart, checkout, and post-purchase
• Partner with product, design, and data science to shape roadmap priorities and translate goals into scalable plans
• Drive technical standards and consistency across the Storefront codebase (performance, observability, testing, maintainability)
• Identify and resolve systemic engineering gaps before incidents
• Mentor and grow senior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and coaching
• Define and drive adoption of best practices across frontend architecture, API design, and experimentation frameworks
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure a reliable, well-instrumented storefront stack
• Align with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams on technical direction and milestones

Skills

Full-stack web development

Distributed systems

Frontend architecture

A/B testing frameworks

Data-driven experimentation

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Job description

Quince in Palo Alto, CA seeks a Staff Engineer to lead end-to-end storefront initiatives across Home, CLP, and Recommendations. You will own architecture, drive performance, and mentor engineers, partnering with product, design, and data science to shape scalable plans.

The role demands 8+ years of full-stack web experience, distributed systems knowledge, and a data-driven mindset. Base salary ranges from $230,000 to $275,000 USD, with potential bonus and equity for eligible roles.