Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Software Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining scalable backend systems for Good Inside. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance core product infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain reliable backend services and APIs that support critical business applications.
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, designers, and senior backend engineers to define data models, API contracts, and system boundaries.
- Identify, triage, and resolve performance issues and production defects. Profile services and optimize queries with guidance as needed.
- Contribute to code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Participate in an on‑call rotation and incident response with support from senior teammates, help drive post‑incident follow‑ups and incremental improvements.
- Write clear technical documentation and communicate trade‑offs behind implementation choices.
- Advocate for continuous improvement, raising the bar on code quality, reliability, and engineering standards.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of professional experience in backend software engineering.
- Proficiency with a modern backend language and framework (e.g., FastAPI, Flask, Django)
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Working knowledge of distributed systems, scalability principles, and database systems (SQL and/or NoSQL)
- Strong debugging and problem‑solving skills with a practical approach to troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern CI/CD practices.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker), exposure to Kubernetes or similar orchestration is a plus.
- Track record of effective collaboration across engineering, product, and design.
- Clear, concise interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Company Equity
- Comprehensive benefits package
- 401k + Company match
- Time off to recharge
- Hybrid work environment
- A high-ownership, high-performance, high-collaboration culture
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