(Full Time) Senior Backend Engineer at Fleek (United States) | BEAMSTART Jobs
Senior Backend Engineer
Fleek United States
Date Posted: 23 May, 2023
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: $50000 — $80000 yearly
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: 6+ years
Remote Work: Yes
Stock Options: Yes
Vacancies: 1 available
About Fleek
Fleek is a B2B Marketplace for wholesale second hand fashion. We enable professional resellers and retail stores to buy from vintage clothing suppliers around the world. We are backed by top Silicon Valley VCs like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, and more.
Team
Fleek is a set of funky individuals who find unity in diversity with the single mission of helping sustainability, promoting circular fashion while building a beautiful product experience.
Our 10 people team consists of ex-YC founders leading our engineering effort, ex-Uber & Doordash folks leading our operations and supply strategy. Alongside our Growth team is lead by folks who went to Cambridge, Oxford and UC Berkeley.
Technology stack
Fleek is built with a modern native stack with Javascript as its backbone and React, React Native as the frameworks for app development. We have two buyer and supplier facing apps on App Store and Play Store. We also have a website that currently runs on Shopify (to be soon deprecated).
We employ AWS as our cloud provider and use technologies in OpenSearch, DataFlow and Lambda, Video streaming to build on top.
Our philosophy is to reuse where possible and innovate when we can add value.
Role specific details
Fleek has evolved from an MVP to a product at the state of scale. We currently service anywhere around 10,000 MAUs who bring in about $1M of GMV monthly. We've been able to build tablestake features and apps such as: Consumer App, Vendor App & AWS backend infrastructure to support it.
We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer who has 5+ years of experience building and/or leading tech. In your role you will be:
- Responsible for developing and hands-on coding in our backend (AWS) and Typescript/Node
- Establish and guide architecture designs around the company. You should be fluid with Databases, Search Indexes, Data Pipelines.
- Ability to pickup recent developments in AI to be able to apply to use cases such as search & personalization
- Fluent communication with teams developing frontend in React & React Native
In this role you will determine your own scope. We are looking for folks who can get deep with code as well as help build out an engineering team for scale!
How we work
Fast - we move fast because there are small business owners who count on us.Collaborative - just like in sports, we focus on winning!
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience with React.JS/ReactNative/Cotlin/Switft building out cross platform apps for iOS and Android
- Experience working in backend/cloud environments like AWS or GCP
- Experience working in a collaborative environment
- Having worked at a startup is a must!
Benefits
We at Fleek believe in happy employees :-)
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Exclusive employee clothing drops courtesy Fleek
- Flexible work hours & time off. We don’t care where you are as long as the work gets done
- Shared ownership: Being On Fleek means you’ll own a part of it