Staff Software Engineer

RevolutionParts; Tempe (AZ); Remote; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K match

Parental leave

Career development

Job summary

RevolutionParts, Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer to elevate our AI-powered platform for auto parts eCommerce. You will tackle hard, real-world problems, lead teams, and shape scalable systems that handle massive catalogs, live inventory, and real-time pricing.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of software development, strong leadership, and deep OO design knowledge. Remote candidates are welcome, with preference for the Phoenix area; sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams and delivering software in Agile environments.
• Strong AI fluency and ability to apply AI to improve outcomes.
• Deep understanding of OO design and CS fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Lead scalable web application development in a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics to shape project direction.
• Drive architectural decisions and code reviews across teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

AI-forward

Team leadership

Cloud AWS

OO design

Communication

Education

Bachelors in CS/CE

Tools

AWS

Job description

At RevolutionParts, we’re building the AI powered technology behind how automotive parts are bought and sold online - at real scale, with real complexity, and real impact.
Our platform powers eCommerce for thousands of dealerships, handling massive product catalogs, real-time inventory, complex pricing rules, and high-volume order processing. As we grow, we’re rethinking how our systems scale, how our data flows, and how fast our teams can ship - and that’s where you come in.This role is for engineers who enjoy solving hard, real-world problems, not just writing code in isolation.
The Role
RevolutionParts is looking for talented and dedicated Staff Engineers to help evolve our technology to support our next phase of growth. You'll be joining a team of professionals who are fiercely dedicated to using technology to revolutionize an industry not known for being high-tech: auto parts.
If you want a clear-cut role with the same tasks for years, this is not for you. If you like to Think Big and work on a variety of projects, we need you!
* Candidates in the greater Phoenix Area will be preferred, but we are open to remote candidates if you have the experience we need!
Also note: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor employment-based visas at this time.
AI Fluency & Modern ToolingAt RevolutionParts, we expect team members to actively use modern tools — including AI-powered systems — to improve decision‑making, productivity, and quality of work.This includes:

• Using AI tools responsibly to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and problem‑solving
• Exercising strong judgment around data privacy, accuracy, and ethical use
• Continuously learning and adapting as AI capabilities evolve

Proven examples of using AI to improve outcomes in prior roles is expected.
Types of problems we are solving

• We have 50 million parts in a DB. Create a back‑end technology stack that can support real‑time dynamic search of these parts (Google style) -- think "2010 accord water pump". Keywords: ElasticSearch, node.js, parallel processing ??
• We have a history of millions of orders. Create a recommendation engine that will suggest other parts along with what a buyer already has in their cart. Oh -- and the recommended part has to fit the same car. Return the result in 100 ms or less. Keywords: Uhm, we’re not sure, research technologies that might help accomplish this.
• Create a clean public REST API for parts dealers to import orders that they get from sources other than our stores. Keywords: Authentication, JSON, good API design.
• Create an internal shopping cart service that can manage millions of carts a month. Keywords: memcached/redis, NoSQL, scaling, availability
• We need to spin up 50 servers on AWS to crunch some numbers every month. Let’s automate that.
  

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive, hands‑on software development experience building scalable web applications.
• Experience leading teams using various Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban to deliver software products
• You are AI‑forward. Talk to us how you leverage AI to accelerate outcomes and drive impact.
• Deep understanding of OO design and all Computer Science fundamentals
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field - OR over 15 years of software development experience
• Experience working in a cloud‑based software development environment, preferably with AWS
• Experience working in a constantly growing and changing environment
• Experience working in multi‑tenant SaaS platforms
• Experience with payments and/or eCommerce
• A growth mentality - willing to own problems
• Good communication and collaboration skills; comfortable discussing projects with anyone from end users up to the executive company leadership
• Great interpersonal skills including a positive can‑do attitude and sense of humor
• A desire to GSD - Get Stuff Done!
  

Nice to have skills

• Masters Degree in Computer Science
• Experience with Marketplaces
  

RevolutionParts is proud to provide all full‑time Revolutionaries with a comprehensive employment package including competitive compensation, career development, benefits, 401K match, parental leave, and many more valuable perks. You can learn more about our core‑value driven culture at our career page.
RevolutionParts is an Equal Opportunity Employer; we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender orientation, gender identity or expression, sexual identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status, genetic information, veteran status, or disability status.
Please Note: You will only receive correspondence through the Gem ATS or from a @revolutionparts.com email address. If you are receiving communication through any other platform or domain, it may be fraudulent, and we urge you to ignore the communication.
Comp shown is base salary only which does not include the bonus.
CompensationThe base pay range for this role is $165,000 – $185,000 per year.