About the role
About Poshmark
Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection. Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.
Poshmark is looking for a talented and creative Staff Web Engineer. The candidate is expected to create web applications that have a simple user interface and solid code that touches the lives of millions of users. The role will be dynamic and varied, requiring a versatile self-starter willing to dive into multiple initiatives. This role will provide an excellent opportunity to implement code that may run in production, at scale.
While having the opportunity to work with a talented team to rapidly roll out changes and measure their impact, while being mentored and guided.
Responsibilities
* Responsible for creating web application features.
* Develop a scalable, high performance and maintainable code.
* Work with web technologies built on Web, database, and caching technologies.
* Tune the performance for the web application.
6-Month Accomplishments
* Get familiar with the existing web architecture and code base.
* Should be able to independently drive the feature development.
* Have a good collaboration within the team. Also, with other teams like Product, Design, QA, devOps etc
* Should participate in technical discussions and be able to evaluate the design and architecture of the solution to the problems.
12+ Month Accomplishments
* Come up with ideas/changes to improve the application both from performance and scalability perspective.
* Establish yourself as technical lead for the web team.
Desired Skills
* 8 years software development experience, including at least 3 years in building easy to use, responsive web applications
* Experience in any of the following is highly desirable - Node, Vue, React, Angular, Ruby on Rails, NoSQL technologies (i.e. MongoDB), AWS.
* Skills in building web development stack.
* Understanding and designing RESTful web services.
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
Why Poshmark?
Poshmark is a leading social commerce platform for the next generation of retailers and shoppers. Through technology, our mission is to build the world’s most connected shopping experience, while empowering people to build thriving retail businesses. Since launching in 2011, Poshmark has become a vibrant social shopping community with seven million Seller Stylists helping 60 million users discover items they love from over 100 million listings. The company is backed by the world’s leading investment firms including Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital, Temasek, Inventus Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Grove Venture Partners, Shea Ventures and AngelList. For more information, please visit www.poshmark.com, or find us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.
About Us:
At Poshmark, we’re constantly challenging the status quo and are looking for innovative and passionate people to help shape the future of Poshmark. We’re disrupting the industry by combining social connections with e-commerce through data-driven solutions and the latest technology to optimize our platform. We’re nothing without our amazing team who deliver an unparalleled social shopping experience to the millions of people we connect each day.
We built Poshmark around four core values: 1) focus on people to create empowered communities that drive success; 2) together we grow to support each other to strive for our dreams; 3) lead with love to foster genuine connections built upon a foundation of respect; and 4) embrace your weirdness to accept and empower one another on their own unique journey. We’re invested in our team and community, working together to build an entirely new way to shop. That way, when we win, we all win together. Come help us build the most connected shopping experience ever.
Here’s what we’ll set you up with:
* A team that is invested in your career growth and training
* Competitive salary and equity, based on experience
* Company sponsors up to 100% cost for your health, dental and vision plans and up to 90% for your dependents
* Work alongside world-class talent
* Flexible vacation / paid time off policy
* Parental leave
* Personal style encouraged (or not, whatever you’re in to)
Poshmark is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.