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Software Engineer, Core

Medusa

2 years ago

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Medusa is the leading open source ecommerce platform for Javascript developers. It provides the foundational building blocks for tomorrow’s ecommerce infrastructure by combining an open and headless architecture with a strong developer experience.

About the Core team

The Core team is responsible for designing and building our core engine including complex commerce features, sophisticated abstractions, and general technical architecture thus Core Engineers are critical for the long-term success of Medusa.

What you’ll work on

  • Our open-source project; the foundational core as well as plugins.

  • Developing and documenting web applications and web servers.

  • Implement highly performant and scalable applications.

  • Solutions that will enhance the developer experience and broaden the customizations options of Medusa.

  • Supporting the community through technical support whenever needed.

Who you are

  • Experienced. You have worked in the role as a full-stack engineer with +7 years of SW Engineering experience. Ideally with some experience from a leading role.

  • Team player. You like to both provide and receive feedback to help the team, product and company improve.

  • Coming from a start-up environment. You have worked in (or have strong appetite for) a fast-growing startup environment.

  • A big fan of excellent developer tooling. You appreciate good developer tooling and strive to provide such an experience when building products.

  • Good at taking ownership. You want to take ownership and responsibility for tasks throughout the development cycle while sometimes supporting less experienced teammates if needed.

  • Know your way around the e-commerce world. You’ve been working within e-commerce space and have preferrably been building custom solutions with existing platforms.

Tech stack

We build our applications using modern and battle-tested technologies and these include Node.js (TypeScript), React, Next.js, GatsbyJS, PostgreSQL and Redis.

If you have experience and harness all of these technologies already then fantastic. However, aptitude and attitude are valued over experience with the next shiniest tool. We would still love to hear from you if you haven’t had experience with all of these languages and tools.

What you get

  • A competitive salary and ownership in one of the fastest-growing ecommerce startups around.

  • Remote first and flexible working hours. As long as you get your work done, you can work from almost anywhere.

  • Full WFH setup and $500 per annum to spend on your remote workspace. New plant?

  • Company retreats, virtual Friday bars, community events and many other activities.

  • Unlimited PTO and flexible working space.

  • Discovery Days every Friday promoting explorative projects.

For more details on our benefits go here.

Why Medusa?

So far, Medusa has managed to become one of the fastest-growing projects on GitHub. In less than a year, the project soared to +10,000 GitHub stars, +2,000 community members and +10,000 project starts. Companies - from global start-ups to larger enterprises - have adopted Medusa, with many already using it in production. In the Summer of 2022, Medusa closed an $8M seed round and is now looking to invest heavily in growing the team.

We strive to build exceptional products and that requires an exceptional team. We focus on supporting each others’ personal growth and encourage experimentation, curiosity and ownership in all aspects of our work. This allows us to push the bar for creativity in our problem-solving and leads to better solutions for our community.

The team

We work remote-first with a diverse and young team from different parts of the world. We appreciate hard-working people with a can-do attitude and in return give great flexibility in terms of working style and extensive responsibility early on. We are a small and caring bunch that treats our Core team as a community on its own.

Company

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Medusa11-50 employees
The Open Source Shopify alternative.

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