Software Engineer 2

As a Software Engineer, you will be empowered to take ownership of technology decisions and solutions while playing a pivotal role in establishing a successful engineering culture at a fast-growing company. This is a great opportunity to leverage your existing skills, to build a world-class team and to have a huge impact on how marketplaces can be redefined. We are looking for a motivated, highly enthusiastic technical iOS engineer to join our Growth Team. This team is responsible for generating traffic to StockX, including attracting new customers and retaining existing ones. Our domain includes advertising, analytics, growth hacking, notifications, promotions, and SEO. We take pride in building a seamless, easy-to-use experience for our buyers and have fun doing it. We are currently expanding our team to build fault-tolerant, scalable platforms for all the aforementioned areas on iOS and are looking for technology experts to architect, design, and build them.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and debug the StockX iOS app using Swift and UIKit.
• Build GraphQL APIs that interact with our backend services and REST APIs.
• Utilise MVVM architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with any technology changes, including changes to the language (Swift), tools (Xcode, macOS, etc. ), platform (iOS), and devices
• Work on initiatives from start to finish, including A/B testing.
• Work with product owners, internal stakeholders, programme managers, and engineering managers to crystallise ambiguous requirements and propose resilient technical solutions that scale to future business needs.
• Work with engineers in the team to take these proposed solutions and architect and design them.
• Efficiently break up large system designs in detailed component design. Help the team to implement, deploy, and monitor systems and services.
• Propose and adopt best engineering practices and guide development standards.
• Foster a growth mindset culture. Be a team player. Contribute to and follow team processes for better sprint outcomes.
• Apply considerations around security, scalability, reliability, and performance while proposing and building solutions.
• Use sound technical judgement to consider technology alternatives, impact on affected and adjacent systems, and design choice trade-offs.
• Demonstrate complete ownership of services for your area of work. Participate in supporting your systems and services through any system upgrades, live site issues, and others.
• Provide timely communication to stakeholders and users for resolving issues.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant development experience.
• Good understanding of the iOS platform, including common conventions.
• Experience with working in an Agile environment.
• Ability to document new features, additions, and bug fixes clearly.
• Ability to explain complex technical terms to non-technical users.
• Ability to translate non-technical business requirements into a technical solution.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
• Experience working on cross-functional product teams preferred.
• Excellent analytical, organisational, and communication skills. Ability to say no.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related technical field is preferred.
• Our technical stack comprises various systems and services built on Amazon Web Services. We use GraphQL, GoLang, NodeJS, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Harness, Terraform, LaunchDarkly, and Datadog.
• The technology scope includes all stacks and services (APIs and event processing systems) responsible for providing a seamless experience for our customers.