Help empower our global customers to connect to culture through their passions.
What you'll love about this role:
Our team owns the backbone of StockX: the global marketplace. Every bid or ask runs through our system, and we provide something no one else in the industry does - a local view to a global marketplace. Our systems run at scale, like 60,000 hits/second scale, and we deal with unique problems that smaller-scale systems never hit. We work with some of the latest technologies, and are currently defining the next generation architecture for our platform. We tackle some of the most difficult challenges you will see as an engineer, and we do it together.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate with a team of low-ego, top-level engineers, to build the next-generation scalable, high-throughput platform for the rocketship that is StockX
- Own our solutions start to finish. You will be working on an engineer-driven team: we define our solutions, we break projects down into bite-sized chunks, we set milestones for ourselves, we document our services for our needs, we build our systems to our designs, we make sure they are tested, we make metrics that give us the insight we need, and yep we support our production operations
- Research and implement cutting edge technology that can be applied to handle massive scale
- Contribute to a healthy, collaborative culture where we continuously learn, continuously adapt, and improve together. You’ll bring your experience and lessons from past jobs - and get a chance to help define how our team operates
- Tackle the toughest technical challenges at StockX. You will work on high impact projects, with massive scale, and massive dollar values attached to them.
- Contribute meaningfully to the success of StockX
About you:
- 2-5 years of relevant development experience
- Experience with distributed architecture. Proficiency in one or more back-end languages used by the team (NodeJS, GoLang) or equivalent experience in another language and a willingness to learn and get up to speed quickly
- Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills. Ability to say No
- Experience with data storage technologies, both relational and NoSQL
- Experience with event-based architecture and with related technologies like kafka, SNS, SQS etc.
- Experience with cloud platforms - Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with working in an Agile environment
- Ability to work in a fast paced and constantly changing environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical field preferred
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
Pursuant to the various pay transparency laws/acts, the base salary range is $120,000 to $145,000 plus opportunities for benefits (e.g., medical, dental), equity and discretionary bonuses (for full-time hires). Compensation is dependent on geography and may vary.
StockX is the premier current culture platform for buying and selling authentic, new, sought-after products. Our powerful marketplace connects buyers and sellers for sneakers, apparel, accessories, electronics, collectibles and trading cards around the world. We provide millions of global customers with unprecedented access and market visibility powered by real-time data, allowing them to transact based on true market value. Launched in 2016 in Detroit, Michigan, StockX now employs more than 1,500 people in offices and authentication centers in 11 countries.