Staff Software Engineer, Pricing and Discounts

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and performant pricing and discounts systems
• Establish best practices and frameworks for backend development, ensuring performance, accuracy, and maintainability
• Mentor and collaborate with team members, fostering growth and innovation in both technical and business domain knowledge
• Architect and build robust pricing calculation engines, discount logic, and tax computation systems using C# .NET
• Design and optimize complex business rules, algorithms, and workflows for pricing scenarios
• Develop high-performance APIs to support real-time pricing and discount calculations under high-volume transactional loads
• Build intuitive user interfaces using React for configuring pricing rules, discounts, and promotions
• Design efficient database schemas in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL to support pricing data models
• Optimize complex queries and stored procedures for pricing calculations, ensuring data integrity and consistency
• Implement effective caching and performance optimization strategies
• Build and maintain seamless integrations with other systems (e.g., inventory, orders, payments)
• Partner with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Implement comprehensive testing strategies to ensure pricing accuracy and system reliability
• Design systems that scale to support growing transaction volumes and business complexity

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack application development with deep expertise in backend systems and server-side languages, primarily C# .NET
• Extensive experience building complex business logic, calculation engines, and transactional systems with a strong backend focus
• Solid experience with modern frontend development using React for building intuitive user interfaces
• Strong proficiency with database technologies, including MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL, with advanced SQL skills and database optimization expertise
• Proven track record designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
• Experience with pricing systems, e-commerce platforms, discount engines, or similar complex business rule systems (highly preferred)
• Strong understanding of system scalability, performance optimization, and reliability patterns
• Familiarity with Ruby or other backend languages for integration scenarios (bonus)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) for application deployment and scaling
• Knowledge of testing strategies, including unit testing, integration testing, and test automation
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Strong mentorship and technical leadership experience, with a track record of guiding junior engineers
• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and business stakeholders
• Experience working in fast-paced environment with rapid iteration cycles

Benefits & Perks

• Full medical benefits including dental and vision plans
• Equity packages in the form of stock options
• Technology (hardware, software, reading materials, etc..) allowance
• Flexible vacation and sick days

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