Principal Architect

Are you passionate about building tools that have an immediate impact on your customers? Do you have a thirst for breaking down complex, interesting initiatives into scalable code?Do you thrive when you're contributing to a high-performing, humble team?Do you love walking home from work knowing that you empowered other developers, delivered value to your customers, and got to work on some gnarly code — all in the same day?Amazing, then you’re the type of person we’re looking for!At Jungle Scout, we are on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to be successful Amazon sellers. We work hard, keep it real and do it all for our customers by providing industry-leading tools, education and content.We’re growing and we are looking to add a Principal Software Engineer - Architect to our fast-paced and customer-oriented Engineering team.Where would this person be located? Great question! We’re a remote-first company and hope to hire this Principal Architect anywhere between the ET - PT time zones.Interested in learning more? Let’s get into the details: # **What you will be doing:*** Execute. You will be the technical leader of one of our groups of sprint teams. You will help teams navigate technical problems and be the stalemate breaker when a decision can’t be made.* Plan. You will work with product managers and team leads to play an active part in defining the roadmap and scoping features. * Mentor. You will have frequent conversations with members of your group and proactive seek out opportunities to help develop their careers.* Make recommendations. You will actively contribute to decisions around technologies to be used for new applications and improvements on existing applications* Scale, maintain, and improve. As we continue to grow, you’ll anticipate challenges before they happen by maintaining existing codebases and system infrastructures, as well as enhancing the development, staging and production environments of our applications. * Participate and contribute. You’ll have an active hand in code reviews, as well as pairing on tasks. You’ll also provide input for ongoing improvement of engineering practices and procedures. If you are thinking “heck yeah!”, please read on…. # **Who you are:*** Done this before. We believe experience is best measured in results and intensity (not years), but you need to have been in this software development game a while. You also need to have experience with some subset of our primary tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Node, React (or other Javascript frameworks), Postgres, Redis. We’re thinking more than ten years.* Technical people-person. You’re used to communicating technical details to non-technical coworkers as well as soliciting requirements and feedback to help you architect the most effective solution. You also love mentoring your team and working with both individual contributors and other leaders to pool your expertise and disseminate it to the rest of the department. * Master classer. We’re looking for someone with a history of crushing their goals, a passion for high quality, effective solutions, and a strong desire to level up the entire team. * Heavy toolbelt. You know your way around a web application -- how to build clean, complex, scalable APIs and how best to consume them on the client. You’ve worked on some legacy systems and built others from scratch, making all the mistakes along the way, and now you back up your decisions with a wealth of experience and context. You understand how your tools work in detail, knows when (and when not) to use them, and can show your team a thing or two.* Technical leader. You will provide the technical vision and direction of the company, lead discussions that might constrain or broaden future architectural choices. # **About Jungle Scout**Jungle Scout is the leading all-in-one tool for selling on Amazon, with the mission of providing powerful data and insights to help entrepreneurs and brands grow successful Amazon businesses. The Jungle Scout team is a group of smart, motivated, and fun-loving professionals working hard to help our customers achieve success. We have a remote-first culture with employees across the world as well as in our hub offices in Austin TX, Vancouver BC and Shenzhen China. We believe team members should have the opportunity to choose the work environment that works best for them. Team members have the option of working from home, at one of our hub offices, or from a co-working space.We offer competitive compensation packages, 401K/RRSP matching, generous vacation, coworking benefits, and professional development to help you thrive in your career. The entire Jungle Scout team also gathers for annual all-expenses-paid retreats — past locations have included Bali, Bangkok, Vietnam, Budapest, Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica. Check us out! # **We prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion **At Jungle Scout, we hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Jungle Scout is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.All offers of employment at Jungle Scout are contingent upon clear results of a comprehensive background check. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates prior to start date.

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