Principal Software Engineer, API
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Engineering Manager
Replo (YC S21)
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $200,000 - $500,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Kafka
About the role
- MUST start off as an IC and MUST write code
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and define best practices across the team
- Lead and grow a team of exceptional engineers, providing mentorship and guidance
- Deeply understand customer needs and pain points to prioritize work
- Own project execution end-to-end — planning, architecture, and delivery
- Collaborate with high-visibility teams and stakeholders to drive product and platform initiatives
- Provide hands-on technical leadership from system architecture and design to incident response and roadmap definition
- Work every day with founders to shape and execute on the long-term vision for Replo's AI platform
- Partner with Chief of Staff to attract top-tier engineering talent and define hiring strategies
- Architect and implement full-stack product features (merchant commerce, subscriptions, dropshipping, digital products)
- Build agentic workflows that design and build online shops
- Build product and payments processing infrastructure for millions of users
- Ingest billions of events/month using Kafka + ClickHouse for real-time dashboards and marketing automation
- Own user onboarding and billing flow end-to-end
Requirements
- Has a CS degree (or equivalent)
- Can be in office 3-4 days/week in San Francisco
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development
- At least 2+ years of tech lead/engineering management
- Experience leading projects on a cross-team or company-wide scale
- Uses Cursor/Windsurf/GPT to accelerate their work
- Has built products 0 -> 1 with real users and revenue
- Is OK operating independently without product/design
- Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo
- Has a product and customer-focused mindset
- Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation
- Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points
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