As the Senior Solutions Architect focused on e-commerce at Bezos Academy, you will build a new end-to-end technology solution that serves educational products for children and families. You are a hands-on, results-driven builder who will play a pivotal role in establishing our e-commerce technology foundation with a small team of founders. Your work will combine digital experiences for families with analog activities for children. With a passion for software system development craft and a mission-driven mindset, you will expand access to early childhood development programs for families of all kinds.

You have a track record of delivering end-to-end technology solutions that solve human problems. You work resourcefully across infrastructure and Saas applications to build e-commerce solutions, using technology for real world impact despite constraints on time and resources. You have successfully built and operated multiple consumer-facing e-commerce systems in collaboration with product managers, designers, engineers and business stakeholders. You are a solutions architect with a customer mindset, preferring working code over perfect plans. You are adept at working from scratch, resolving ambiguity, and iterating your way to customer love. You have hands-on experience in all functions of an e-commerce system, including customizing an e-commerce platform, building a custom storefront from scratch with a headless e-commerce platform, integrating with a customer data platform and a customer identity and access management platform, developing bespoke backend APIs, and operating the end-to-end solution at scale. You know exceptional work when you see it and you grow this passion in others.

You will find yourself in a fast-paced, start-up environment where you will focus on inventing, measuring, and iterating for children. You are equally motivated by great products and great impact, deeply inspired by our mission to expand access to early childhood education in under-resourced communities.

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Seattle, WA
Relocation support is available for those willing to relocate to Seattle, WA.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, exempt (salaried) position.
The full salary range for this position in Seattle, Washington, is $157,000 - $251,000 per year. The upper third of the salary range is typically reserved for employees who have been in the role for multiple years and have demonstrated strong performance over time. Starting salary will vary by qualifications and prior experience.
This role includes 15 paid days of vacation, 4 days of paid personal time off, 7 paid days of sick (care) time, 9 paid holidays, 5 paid days off for an organization-wide winter break, and additional time off if required by applicable law. Benefits for this role include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with a 4% employer contribution match, paid parental leave, an employer-matched flexible spending account for dependent care, and more. Please see here for details.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Eight or more years of experience working in software development or solution architecture, with a focus on web front-ends and back-end systems integration
Three or more years of developing APIs and integrating with third-party SaaS APIs, either REST or GraphQL
Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript and NodeJS
Familiarity with AWS and market leading e-commerce platforms like Shopify or BigCommerce
Working knowledge of data modeling with relational and non-relational databases
Experience with Agile software development lifecycle using Scrum or Kanban
Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and on-call support of production systems
Ability to speak, read, and write English fluently

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience designing, integrating and operating end-to-end e-commerce solutions on the Shopify platform
Experience developing headless e-commerce systems with custom front-end technologies like React or JavaScript
Developed serverless applications in AWS
Working knowledge of Shopify, Okta, Auth0 or Segment by Twilio
Familiarity with handling personally identifiable information (PII)

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