Staff Software Engineer

Ibotta; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

3 days in office (Denver)

Job summary

Ibotta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Denver, CO, a hybrid role with 3 days in office weekly. You will build scalable, fault-tolerant applications using a mix of languages and tools, leverage AI to enhance development, and guide teammates toward best practices.

You will influence product direction and engineering culture in a small, nimble team. Ideal candidates have 7+ years in software development, a relevant degree, and deep knowledge of distributed systems, data stores, and cloud

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software development.

Responsibilities

• Build products and tools that drive meaningful impact to Ibotta and users.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver features for millions of users.
• Use AWS serverless architectures and other cloud services daily.
• Identify tools/tech to design scalable, reliable, and high-performing applications.
• Decompose complex problems into manageable tasks and leverage AI in development.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and write tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Own technical solutions end-to-end from ideation to production.

Skills

Typescript

Ruby on Rails

Java

Kotin

Nodejs

Vue

Swift

MySQL

DynamoDB

Redis

AI tools for prototyping

LLM API calls

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or related field

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Databricks

n8n

Job description

Ibotta is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding by building something great with us. As part of the engineering team, you will work on the technology solutions that power our products that are used by millions of consumers. We're looking for a self-motivated engineer who has a real passion for building and running large-scale, fault-tolerant applications. Success in this role means not only understanding the right solutions and how to build them, but also embracing innovative means of collaborating with and leveraging AI to do so. Every engineer has input into our engineering culture, our products and development processes, and will have a real impact as part of a small, nimble team.

This position is located in Denver, Colorado as a hybrid position requiring 3 days in office, (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Candidates must live in the United States.

What you will be doing:

• Build products and tools, using the right language/tool for the job, that drive valuable impact to Ibotta, our customers, or fellow engineers
• Work collaboratively with a highly talented cross-functional team to design, develop and deliver new products and features that will be used by millions of users
• Use Amazon's AWS infrastructure and advanced services daily, including serverless architectures
• Stay abreast of the ever-changing technology landscape to identify the best tools and technologies to design and build flexible, scalable, reliable and high-performing applications
• Maintain an agile, experimental and iterative approach, with a willingness to learn fast in a constantly evolving and uncertain environment
• Decompose complex business problems and requirements into manageable sub-tasks
• Know how to skillfully and judiciously leverage AI to assist with software development
• Know when to choose AI as part of the tech stack and how to use it when building products, and operating them in production
• Demonstrate leadership by offering guidance to team members, cultivating their technical aptitude, and championing best practices within the development process.
• Leverage and contribute to our CI/CD pipeline to deploy code many times daily
• Write tests and participate in code reviews to ensure that we're shipping high-quality, maintainable code, and develop evaluators to verify the quality of non-deterministic outputs
• Own your technical solutions end-to-end from contributing your ideas, to first code commit, to operating in production
• Embrace and uphold Ibotta's Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere

What we are looking for:

• 7+ years of experience in software development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field required
• Mastery of relevant technologies such as Typescript, Ruby on Rails, Java, Kotin, Nodejs, Vue, Swift, etc, and data stores such as MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. is valuable, but knowing when to use each is far more important
• Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and software architecture.
• Deep understanding of building highly scalable, observable, and fault tolerant systems
• Mastery of applying core computer science concepts to iterative system design
• Highly skilled in using AI tools for prototyping, writing, testing, debugging, and comprehending code, and the ability to critically review and improve AI-generated code to meet production standards
• Proficient in context engineering and AI building blocks such as LLM API calls, prompting techniques, agentic frameworks, RAG, vector databases, and model fine-tuning
• Proven experience with debugging and testing approaches, and frameworks from unit testing to automated testing and evaluation driven development
• Proven experience building, deploying and operating automated workflows and agents, using platforms such as n8n, Databricks or similar
• Deep understanding of development best practices including observability, alerting and SLOs for services, security, compliance, performance, optimization, reliability, cost efficiency, etc.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCloud, or similar and with DevOps best practices and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform)

Some of the traits that we seek in great engineers:

• You....
• love to teach and learn from your co-workers
• look for ways to continually challenge yourself and develop as an engineer
• are product-minded, with a deep capacity to understand your customers, and can determine the right product and design requirements to meet their needs
• understand that communication is a huge part of your software engineering responsibility and practice it daily
• understand that testing your code is one of the most important aspects of software engineering
• respect diverse perspectives and like collaborating with other engineers to solve hard problems
• understand that delivering p