Software Engineer I

About this role

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>About the Team </strong></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At GOAT Group, the Engineering team is an integral part of our dynamic company. By joining the team, your skills will be front and center, working alongside other passionate individuals to solve problems and build software. From launching compelling new consumer experiences, tackling global logistics challenges to scaling infrastructure to facilitate our rapid growth – technology is essential to driving our vision forward. The work you do will change the way the world shops, while also empowering entrepreneurs, including individual sellers, brands and boutiques.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Role Overview</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are looking for a Backend Engineer to help design and implement new features across multiple backend applications. As a presence and an individual contributor on a small team, you will play a key role in both enhancing a Ruby on Rails backend at the heart of the business and building out a new, more scalable service-driven architecture.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Language requirement: Fluent in Mandarin and English</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Location: Shanghai, China</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Manage projects and problems of significantly larger scopes</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Formulate an efficient game plan for delivering a stable, well-tested feature on time</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Make technical recommendations that improve the codebase while minimizing risk</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Identify and fix (or, ideally, avoid) bugs and performance bottlenecks</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>We are looking for:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BS degree preferred</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2-5 years of experience in software engineering with Ruby on Rails&nbsp; (Python, Go, PHP, or Java is ok too)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with e-Commerce/Web Applications</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Familiar and comfortable with the technologies, the tradeoffs, and the design patterns emerging in web services</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A quick learner, a self-starter, able to work autonomously, and you're willing (and able) to handle the pressures of an increasing level of responsibility</span></li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers, apparel and accessories. Operating four distinct brands–GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias–GOAT Group has a global community of more than 60 million members across 170 countries.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOAT is the global platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become one of the leading and most trusted sneaker platforms in the world, and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company offers styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations, while delivering products to over 60 million members across 170 countries.</span></p> <p><s