Senior Staff Engineer - Golang

Senior Staff Engineer - Golang

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer - Golang

Work Location: Austin, TX

Reports to: Darrell Maples

Level: 7

Salary Range: $195,000 - $215,000

About Grocery TV

Grocery TV is a leading in-store retail media platform. Over 120 retailers partner with Grocery TV to modernize stores and drive incremental revenue while delivering a more engaging shopping experience. We manage the complexities of operating an in-store media network, allowing retailers to focus on serving customers. Reaching 1 in 4 Americans across 6,500+ stores, Grocery TV connects brands with shoppers at the moment of decision, where 90% of purchases take place. For more information, visit www.grocerytv.com.

About The Role

This engineer will play a critical role in scaling and hardening Grocery TV’s backend systems as the platform continues to grow. This engineer will work across APIs, content delivery pipelines, and media network orchestration services to improve system resiliency, performance, and reliability. Operating at a Senior Staff Engineering  level, this role is expected to lead and execute backend initiatives end-to-end, bring strong system design judgment, and translate business and product needs into durable technical solutions. This position partners closely with Product and other Software Engineers to ensure backend systems support both current execution and long-term platform strategy.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-scale backend services using Go

Lead implementation of backend projects that improve system reliability, resiliency, and performance

Design and evolve API-first services that support customer-facing and internal applications

Contribute to system architecture and technical design for future initiatives

Partner with Product to scope, plan, and execute backend work aligned with business goals

Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks across distributed systems

Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production systems

Collaborate closely with other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews

Drive operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and incident follow-ups

Proactively identify and implement process improvements in software development process

Be a champion for testing. Leading by example through unit and integration testing throughout projects

Requirements / Experience

12+ years of professional software engineering experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Strong proficiency in Go for building backend services

Experience designing and operating high-scale, high-volume backend systems

Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and tradeoffs

Experience building API-first services, including customer-facing APIs

Familiarity with system reliability, performance tuning, and fault tolerance strategies

Experience working with relational databases and data stores in production environments

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to reason about complex systems

Interview Process

Apply: We review applications as soon as we can. You should hear back about your application within two weeks.

Introduction to Hiring Manager: Meet with the hiring manager (virtually or in-person) to share your background, learn about the role, and align on logistics.

Technical Interview Split in 2: Systems Design and Coding.  Visit our office for a technical interview that relates to the role. You’ll respond to a prompt, and our team will ask questions to better understand your skillset.

Virtual Values Interview: Meet with two Grocery TV employees who you’ll work cross functionally with to discuss team collaboration. This is a perfect opportunity for you to ask us questions, too!

irtual Leadership Interview: Lastly, all candidates have a final interview with a member of the leadership team. This conversation gives you the opportunity to reflect on the interview process and affirm this is the right role for you.

Why Grocery TV?

100% medical, dental, vision coverage options for employees

$1200 annual HSA match

$1000 annual learning & development budget per employee

Unlimited PTO

16 Week Parental Leave for all new parents

Hybrid working model - 3x a week in office

DoorDash monthly lunch stipend

One $500 Work from home set up stipend

Awards & Recognition

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