Engineer, Backend at Boll & Branch

The Engineer for the Backend team is an integral role to help ensure our systems are as performant, reliable, and secure as possible. You are a generalist that will build, maintain, and innovate system components across the stack. As such, you will ensure business operations run smoothly and customer experiences are pain free. We’re looking for a candidate who can facilitate:

• Building out new features to enhance our suite of home grown Rails Applications to facilitate communications with our various 3rd party integrations.
• Ensuring business continuity by aggressively testing our process and tools with automated testing suites.
• Improving transparency into our systems via logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Contributing to the growth and culture of the backend team

You will own features and work with various cross-functional teams and partners. In addition, you will collaborate with Tech leadership on defining milestones and identifying areas for improvement. This role reports into our Engineering Manager, Backend.

First Year Objectives:

• Month 1: Familiarize yourself with the current development process for the Backend team, meet all key stakeholders, familiarize yourself with (and help monitor and modify) the infrastructure.
• By Month 2: Continue to grow familiarity with some of our services by building upon a suite of features to improve operations. Build on our tests and work with our QA Engineer to document workflows and processes. Add to our growing documentation of service integrations, monitors, dashboards, and alarms.
• By Month 4: Be plugged into the system to facilitate Holiday Sales support and troubleshoot issues with order flow, fulfillment, inventory, etc.
• By Month 6: Work with our Engineering Manager to deliver features on our newest service to facilitate Sales Order processing from Shopify.
• By Month 8: Work with our QA Engineer to help automate testing of our new Sale Order Service and ensure it’s ready for production.
• By Month 10: Better understand client-facing feature requests and their requirements from our business systems and integrations, and implement solutions facilitating a best in class experience.
• By Month 12: Lean into testing our infrastructure and integrations, and create meaningful dashboards, monitors, and alarms to keep us ahead of any potential issues ahead of the holidays.

Competencies:

• 1+ years engineering experience; e-commerce experience a plus.
• Ability to Deliver: You have a proven ability to deliver against the plan (Structured approach). The business will be relying on you and your expertise.
• Can own their expertise: You own your area of expertise in Ruby on Rails and your changes in our codebases. You can proactively identify technical gaps and articulate it to the team for prioritization.
• Can organize their code and cover with tests: You write readable, testable code with an emphasis on maintainability.
• Communication - Support teammates with documentation and thoughtful discussion: You can effectively describe technical concepts, challenges, and issues to both peers and stakeholders. You can communicate your thoughts in various forms, from planning notes to engineering docs to demos.
• Buy it vs build it: You know when to leverage open source/third party solutions over in house implementations, factoring in time, cost, reliability, security, etc.
• Thoughtful with data in general, databases in particular: You model data in a way that is intuitive to understand and easy to ingest. You write performant queries when fetching from a data source.
• Practiced in RESTful API development and consumption: You follow standard best practices when working with RESTful APIs. You are comfortable using tools to test and verify APIs.
• Curious and at home solving challenging problems: You are passionate about building web based systems, staying current with modern architectures, and view a challenge as an opportunity.

The primary location for this role can be based in either our Summit, NJ headquarters, New York City office, or fully-remote for U.S. based candidates. We believe our business and our culture are strongest when we work together in person. We also know that it’s helpful to have flexibility to work remotely. Currently we are operating under a hybrid model whereby all teams work in an office a minimum of two days per week (Tuesdays/Thursdays) and may be provided flexibility to work from home on other days. There may be times when you’re asked to work in our Summit, NJ office because it’s in the best interest of our business or your team.

The annual base salary range for this role is $75-110k (new hires are typically brought into the organization between the minimum to midpoint of the salary range posted depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role). It is important to note that our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size, industry, and the market and are one part of the total rewards that we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, scope of the role, and internal peer benchmarking. In addition to your base compensation, you may be eligible to be part of the Company’s annual bonus program with a non-binding Company and individual performance-based target bonus.

The above is a comprehensive, but not exhaustive, description of requirements and expectations that may evolve over time based on business needs. You must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

What We Offer:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life/AD&D insurance
• Commuter Benefits, HSA/FSA, STD/LTD, and Employee Assistance Program
• Family-Planning Services, Gender-affirming healthcare, and Health Advocacy Program
• Fitness Reimbursement Program, 401(k), Paid Time Off, and an Employee Discount

About Boll & Branch:

At Boll & Branch, we don’t make bedding like everyone else. We make it better.

In 2014, our founders, Scott and Missy Tannen, challenged every conventional standard in the textile industry, creating a new supply chain that prioritized thread quality, not thread count. By investing exclusively in 100% organic raw materials from the start, we became the first bedding company ever to be Fair Trade Certified. Today, we keep five commitments at the heart of everything we do. We are:

• Cultivators of the Highest Quality Threads
• Pioneers in 100% Organic Cotton
• Free from Toxins at Every Step
• 100% Traceable from Farm to Finish
• Committed to Fair and Ethical Treatment for All

Boll & Branch has over 150 employees, and we are headquartered in Summit, NJ, with a second office in New York, NY and a dedicated Photo Studio in New Providence, NJ. In 2019, to propel our growth, we raised $100M from L Catterton, a leading consumer goods private equity fund. We are also progressively expanding our retail and wholesale footprint. While the heart of our business lies in the direct-to-consumer online model, we also have several retail stores around the country as well as partnerships with Bloomingdales and Nordstrom.

Boll & Branch LLC is an equal opportunity employer.