Principal Software Engineer

Berkeley, CA 94707
Full-time

Job Closed

Overview

Required skills and experience: 1. BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Computer Engineering 2. 8+ years Python and/or C++ experience with mastery of modern language features and libraries 3. Depth of experience with distributed and real-time systems, infrastructure, frameworks, and datastores 4. Second-nature familiarity with shared tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Git What you have: You recognize the need to balance pragmatism and creativity You have made mistakes, learned from them and avoided making them again. You are able to use your knowledge and experience to help solve problems that may not be in your field of expertise You work well with a diverse team of high-quality people focused on customer delight You can rapidly become familiar with and apply new tools and technologies What you need to know: 1. Competitive compensation package and benefits. 2. Opportunity to join a leading provider of checkout-free shopper technology for existing stores with a team who has developed the only enterprise class solution for large store chains in the market today. 3. Though we use many tools, depth of experience with Python and its use with distributed and real-time systems (Celery + Redis / RabbitMQ, Kafka + Faust, etc) will be central to this role.

Company

The leading provider of checkout-free technology for large scale grocery and convenience store chains. We deliver a next-generation shopper experience as the only enterprise-class, checkout-free solution on the market today. The platform is a fault-tolerant system that accurately processes thousands of simultaneous interactions between people and goods. The system places no limits on who can enter the store, what can be sold there or how the merchandise is configured. We have tripled its workforce since emerging from stealth mode in January 2019. The plan is to double in size by the end of 2020 to match the growing product demand and support client installations. The company is currently hiring across all functions, including engineering and operations.