Senior Software Engineer - GoLang | Python (OmniComm)

As a Senior Software Engineer - GoLang | Python (OmniComm) at Bash you’ll have a far-reaching impact on the commerce experience for both our customers and store staff. You’ll work in a dynamic cross-functional team closely aligned around the customer journey, with the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects and technologies.

WHAT IS OMNICOMM: 

The Omnicom engineering division is responsible for the customer facing experience of shopping on Bash, delivering all of the usual eCommerce functionality, as well as in store features to round out the omni-shopping customer experience:

• Surfacing our products to customers, working with our partners to deliver world class shopping experiences to surprise and delight


• Growing our customer base through promotions and customer relationship management


• The shopping and checkout journey and post purchase experiences and communications


• And much more

WHAT YOU DO:

• Collaborate with the team as part of an Agile development process


• Manage your JIRA tasks, removing ambiguity from your tickets to streamline development 


• Assist your team on operational tasks related to the platform


• Build relationships with developers, product managers and other colleagues


• Influence the team to build resilient, maintainable solutions.


• Participate in the on-call rotation for for critical system alerts


• Document processes and SOPs (we use Notion)

WHAT YOU HAVE:

• BSc Computer Science or equivalent is encouraged (strong work experience can fill this gap)


• 5+ years of relevant work experience


• 5+ years experience writing backend code. We primarily use Go (and Python) 


• 5+ years experience designing backend for frontend services and applications.


• In-depth knowledge of databases, data structures, algorithms and an interest in distributed systems. Experience in a scripting language.


• Great problem-solving skills.


• A passion for observability and monitoring of the services you build.


• Experience owning the deployment process of your services and applications in Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.


• Ability to work effectively across teams to deliver results, with good verbal and written communication skills

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