Senior Platform Engineer

🧑‍💻 The Role

Are you one of those rare people who combines agile product engineering skills with a love of infrastructure as code and slick deployment engineering? Do you enjoy working closely with agile product teams to improve their lives while making state-of-the-art delivery practices an out-of-the-box default?

At NewStore, our product engineering teams use XP practices to build and run our industry-leading cloud-native Omni-Channel Point of Sale platform. They follow the “you run what you build” ethos - but that doesn’t mean they’re on their own!

The NewStore Platform Engineering & DevEx team enables our product engineering teams to move fast without breaking things. Happy developers are productive developers, so we use a platform-as-product approach to moving much of the undifferentiated heavy lifting into our internal developer platform, thus reducing cognitive load while ensuring consistent application of security and architectural standards.

🚀 What You'll Do

As part of our team, you’ll work closely with stream-aligned teams following eXtreme Programming practices, including TDD and trunk-based development. With a focus on Developer Experience, you’ll use your cloud and deployment engineering expertise to build reusable golden paths that make doing the right thing the easiest thing.

🤝 How We Work Together

We’re a team that values empowerment, collaboration, and ownership. We use a platform-as-product approach, treating our internal developer platform as a core product, ensuring happy, productive, and effective developers. You’ll collaborate closely with agile product teams, aligning on shared goals, and continuously improving practices to reduce cognitive load and enhance security.

📚 Your Story

If you bring strength in any or all of the following competencies, you are a great fit for our team.

• Building shared GoLang libraries to deliver a best-in-class developer experience

• Secure Infrastructure, Cloud Security Frameworks (CIS Benchmarks, AWS Well-Architected, GCP Security Foundations), Secure CI/CD Pipelines, and Identity & Access Management (IAM) Best Practices.

• XP practices, including TDD, pair programming, trunk-based development and customer feedback

• CI/CD and deployment engineering, infrastructure as code, immutable infrastructure, zero-downtime deployments and progressive deployments

• Cloud engineering and architecture - particularly AWS, but familiarity with GCP would also come in handy

  Our tech stack is mostly AWS (principally EKS, RDS, AmazonMQ and MSK) with some GCP. Terraform, GoLang, Python, TypeScript and GitLab are also prominently featured.

We evaluate candidates based on the sum of their strengths. You may not have depth in all of these areas, but we will look to you for thought leadership where you do have strength. We expect you to pick up new skills and leverage the expertise of your teammates to get the job done across the breadth of our stack.

📕 Our Story

At NewStore, we're on a mission to create a seamless, app-based omnichannel experience that will change the game for innovative retail brands. And guess what? We're doing just that, by empowering brands in 40+ countries to run their entire stores on an iPhone, we're paving the way for a brighter future in retail, where shopping is an effortless, enjoyable experience.

At NewStore, our diversity is our greatest strength. Our team comprises over 40 nationalities, fostering a melting pot of unique perspectives, cultural experiences, and innovative ideas.

Join us in our mission to bring the joy back to retail and be part of a team that is breaking down barriers and creating a brighter future.

🔥 Perks and Benefits

Generous PTO and R&R: We prioritize your well-being with a generous PTO policy and a culture that encourages you to take the time you need to recharge and relax.

Professional Growth: We support your career development with a dedicated personal development budget and a learning-centric environment to help you advance your skills and knowledge.

Flexible Work Options: With the option to work remotely, you can create a work environment that suits your lifestyle and maximizes your productivity.

Balanced Work-Life: Our "life-friendly" working hours are designed to help you maintain a fulfilling career and a balanced personal life.

Financial Rewards: As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to participate in our success with employee stock options and a quarterly bonus based on company performance.