Software Developer

About the role

A hands-on individual contributor within the engineering team, focused on Lensrentals' e-commerce platform. This role builds, tests, and maintains features across the front-end, back-end, and database layers, working from technical direction set by senior and lead engineers. The Software Developer collaborates with teammates and, as needed, with Digital & Marketing partners to deliver work that helps reach and engage audiences, build customer knowledge and trust, and improve the overall digital experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops, tests, and maintains software features across front-end, back-end, and database layers, contributing to core e-commerce systems
• Implements well-scoped features and enhancements from tickets, specifications, and technical direction provided by senior and lead engineers
• Builds and improves customer-facing digital experience features such as navigation, search, filters, and recommendations
• Follows established architectural patterns and technical direction, raising questions and surfacing implementation concerns to senior engineers when trade-offs arise
• Participates in planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, providing estimates and status updates for assigned work
• Collaborates with Digital & Marketing stakeholders as needed to clarify requirements and validate that delivered work meets intent
• Participates in code reviews, both submitting work for review and reviewing peers' changes against team coding standards
• Investigates and resolves software defects and performance issues within assigned systems, escalating complex or cross-system problems as appropriate
• Communicates progress, blockers, and dependencies clearly and promptly to the team
• Pairs with and supports junior engineers on onboarding, tooling, and day-to-day technical questions
• Contributes ideas for improving team processes, tools, and delivery practices
• Maintains technical documentation in accordance with departmental standards

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience accepted in lieu of degree
• Minimum 4 years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications
• Demonstrated ability to independently deliver well-scoped features with limited day-to-day supervision
• Experience collaborating with teammates and non-technical partners (e.g., marketing, digital, product) to clarify and deliver requirements
• Exposure to e-commerce platforms or customer-facing digital experience work (search, recommendations, personalization, A/B testing) preferred
• Solid working knowledge of full stack development including front-end frameworks, back-end services, and relational databases
• Ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code in one or more of the team's core languages and frameworks, e.g. Go, Ruby on Rails, React, with willingness to learn the others
• Working understanding of software design principles such as SOLID
• Familiarity with version control, testing practices, and CI/CD workflows
• Exposure to distributed systems concepts and NoSQL datastores is a plus, but not required
• Ability to manage personal workload and meet committed deadlines for assigned tasks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Physical Requirements

• Sedentary work; primarily performed at a desk in an office environment
• Ability to operate standard office equipment including computer, keyboard, and mouse for extended periods

Location

Remote - US

Status: Full Time