ABOUT US (AND OUR EXCITING FUTURE):
We pioneered cloud logistics with our on-demand fulfillment center and shipping tools, Web services, innovative developer tools and integration with today's top e-commerce platforms. Our award-winning platform provides on-demand e-commerce fulfillment and supply chain management from a network of global pick-pack and ship warehouses in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia to more than 1,000 emerging brands and web retailers.
It's an incredibly exciting time for our organization. In December 2013 we were acquired by Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), a Fortune 100 company who is also the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle services. This will allow us to accelerate our platform (much more quickly than we could have as a stand-alone company) in a $40 billion market for e-commerce fulfillment services that is estimated to be growing by double-digits through 2015. The full details are publicly available here: http://goo.gl/mSHCjc and on our blog
As a stand-alone subsidiary of Ingram Micro in the Silicon Valley we will be continuing our start-up culture and maintaining our focus on revolutionizing the supply chain in favor of emerging brands. Through Ingram we have access to global facilities and distribution strength that will accelerate our innovation. Our charter is to be visionary and define the future of this market. .
Exciting? We think so.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY:
You’re the right fit if you have principled intuitions for how to scale systems, or at least a strong desire to learn. The best fit for this role will have experience in large scale commerce sites handling either 10s of thousands of concurrent users or millions of dollars in transactions daily. Tackling the challenges that come along with building, deploying and operating large sites that cannot fail should have been your focus in recent years. Our transactions per day stand to grow 20x-100x in the next year, so we need folks who have worked on more than just content management systems and intranet sites (where somebody else worried about architecture and data).
OUR CURRENT STACK:
We run single-page backbone.js-based apps, on top of a set of RESTful APIs while the back end is built in Modern PHP (clean, object-oriented, namespaced) and adjoining components like PHPnginx/php-fpm, Percona server, redis and gearman. All performing in a cloud/auto-scaling environment.
YOU SHOULD BE PROFICIENT WITH(in) MOST OF THESE...
- Expert in "modern" PHP (clean, object-oriented, namespaced, etc.)
- Deep experience with the components typically adjoining PHP that help it scale and be robust: nginx/php-fpm, Percona server, redis (or other NoSQL databases), gearman (or other job queues)
- MySQL and or NoSQL
- Linux Command Line finesse
- cloud/auto-scaling environments
- Good experience with RESTful APIs
- Unit test frameworks/tools like QUnit and PhantomJS (command-line comfortable)
AND HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH...
- Writing code that simply works
- Not being content with code just because it works
- Thinking big
- Planning big
- Planning for the worst case
- Keeping it simple as long as possible
- Keeping it fun
- Iteration
- Intellectual curiosity
- Persistence
- Customer commitment
- Team commitment
- Team input
- Candor
- Respect
- A desire to leave everything a little better than you found it
THESE ARE PLUSES…
Agile, Paired, TDD workflows