Software Engineer

[REMOTE CONSIDERATION AVAILABLE]

OneSpace is a team of passionate individuals all working toward the same goal: to help consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies improve their performance on the world’s largest online retailers. To accomplish this goal, our expert team members work side by side with our customers to deliver full-service digital shelf management solutions that put their products front and center in the digital world. Using our sophisticated and ﬂexible platform, our team improves and optimizes their ecommerce product content at unrivaled speed and scale.

Our clients include the world’s leading CPG brands and retailers. We have helped them increase their discoverability and conversions online, while creating streamlined content production processes that improve their speed to market.

Software Engineer

Our Engineering Team powers the very core of our business. As a Software Engineer at OneSpace, you will work closely with our product team to architect exciting new features that take our platform to the next level. You’ll have the ability to tackle every aspect of feature design from usability and responsiveness to reliability and performance at scale. We’re looking for engineers at a variety of levels and skill sets who are passionate about creating great software, regardless of the language and frameworks you’re most comfortable with now. We believe that the fundamentals of great programming are drastically more important than the particular tools you’re using today.

Remote Consideration:

The opportunity for remote consideration is available for the right candidate and will be based on regionality. With an expectation of there being regular onsite visits to the office (monthly or bimonthly after initial training and onboarding), we’re looking for applicants approximately within a 300-mile radius from our headquarters in Swansea, Illinois.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

Join a team of enthusiastic engineers in building a distributed web application that pairs freelancers with work
Help an application grow and scale to support millions of simultaneous users
Become a fanatic performance tweaker who blasts out latency bottlenecks
Learn more about microservice architectures, NoSQL data stores, and distributed caches
Help us architect scalable data models and services that support ultra-responsive web applications
Have more fun than you ever thought was possible in a real job
Guide us in our incessant efforts to improve our own work environment and agile development processes
Participate in technical sparring with the product team to better satisfy customer needs

WE’RE LOOKING FOR FOLKS WHO BRING THESE TO THE TABLE:

Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience and certification)
- 2 to 4 years of professional experience in a software development or engineering role; familiarity working with C# and ASP.NET MVC strongly preferred
Social Skills:
- The ability to hold your own in architectural and design discussions with engineers
- A clear communication style that translates to both verbal and written discussions
- A sense of humor about geeky TV shows and internet memes
- Ability to weigh priorities and manage multiple simultaneous projects
A solid technical base of engineering fundamentals:
- Ability to use common patterns to solve technical problems with code
- Experience building and debugging complex applications
- Understanding of how to leverage memory management and caching to improve performance
- Understand database relational models and transactional processing
- Know the difference between synchronous and asynchronous application models
- Knowledge of software design patterns and architecture
- Ability to use different techniques to diagnose and fix software problems
- Experience collaborating with other engineers
Other factors we look for (the more the merrier here):
- Experience in one of our core languages (C#, Node.js, React.js, or PHP)
- Experience running services in both Linux and Windows environments
- Ability to architect and manage distributed data environments
- Knowledge of micro-service architectures (e.g. the Netflix OSS stack)
- Experience using distributed caching, NoSQL data stores, and Big Data analytics tools
- Web development experience that involved JavaScript, CSS, or Node.js
- Experience building REST APIs with JSON messages
- Ninja-like skills in working with OLTP databases
- Ability to read and optimize SQL query plans
- Ability to read and write SQL stored procedures
- Knowledge of networking protocols, infrastructure, etc.
- Experience with performance monitoring tools and dashboards (e.g. StatsD, InfluxDB, Grafana, etc.)
- Understanding of distributed messaging infrastructure (e.g. Kafka)
- Excitement about introducing the team to new tools, languages, or concepts that will help make our team and our product better

Why OneSpace?

Excellent benefits with significant portion of premiums paid by the company
15 paid holidays
PTO starting at 12 days per year
A unique tech startup experience unparalleled in the Midwest
Distinction of joining a recurring Best Places to Work and Top Workplaces honoree in the St. Louis area
Casual, flexible and positive work environment with an invigorating, inclusive culture
Competitive compensation
And more!