Job Description
About Underground Cellar:
Underground Cellar is a Y Combinator and VC-backed startup based in San Francisco that is currently experiencing hyper-growth. We’ve ‘gamified’ wine sales through our addictive e-commerce platform that gives buyers a great value through upgrades, allowing wineries to quickly sell wine without resorting to brand-damaging discounts. Underground Cellar has become the most exciting way to buy wine in the world, with over 1,000,000 bottles sold to thousands of customers through the platform.
We’re looking for someone to jump right in and join a highly-effective and talented team of people who are solving challenging problems and learning from one another. We value talent and dedication just as much as we encourage creativity and passion. Join our team!
As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will be a key player in taking Underground Cellar’s product to a whole new level. Our ‘gamified’ e-commerce platform merges the worlds of physical and digital, leveraging e-commerce, game theory, and gamification to completely transform how customers discover, buy, and store the best wines in the world. Customers are OBSESSED with our platform, leading to 10x growth in the past 18 months at a $30M run rate, and we’re on track to 10x again in the next 18-24 months!
In this role, you’ll work closely with the engineering, product, data, and design teams to ensure our product and website are state of the art and that we continue to ship exceptional and performant features. You will report to our Head of Engineering and work cross-functionally with other company leaders to ensure you have significant input in bringing our product vision to life.
The ideal candidate has great CS fundamentals and expertise in how to write performant code both on the server and in the client. You get excited about complicated challenges and are able to break them down in digestible pieces that are maintainable, scaleable and serves our customers great joy. You are motivated by ownership, want to work with a small and rapidly-growing team that shares similar values.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain customer-facing applications using Python, Django, React and Nextjs.- Stay up-to-date and aware of the latest web technology trends.- Build and design performant APIs that can power and delight the user experience- Work with the product and design team on creating new user experiences and features.- Create and monitor analytics to prove how effective new and existing features are to helping customers.
About you:- Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, or equivalent.- 5+ years of experience in software engineering.- Extensive experience and expertise in Python.- Extensive experience and expertise in React.- Previous experience working on customer facing websites, servers and products.- You are resourceful, a self-starter and you’re able to make things happen, against all odds.- You have strong interpersonal skills and excel working with different groups of people, especially non-technical team members.- You are passionate about delivering outstanding experiences for our customers, and team. You are an ambitious top performer, you persevere through intense obstacles.We’ve Got You CoveredUnderground Cellar is invested in the health and wellness of our family-like team:- Equity ownership for every employee- Competitive base salary- Premium health, dental, and vision insurance- 401k with matching- Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off- Parental leave benefits- Company-wide events and travel (we took the whole team to Hawaii once!)- Free gym membership- Free and low-cost bottles of wine shipped to you to expand your wine knowledge- Complimentary wine tastings throughout Napa, and more!
Our Core Values - Ones we actually live by!
Lead with integrityWe operate at a high level of integrity that is deeply rooted in large ways and in small daily activities and practices. We act with honor and truthfulness in all that we do.
Be supportiveWe achieve the best results through the combined efforts of each individual. Our culture creates an eagerness in employees to take initiative and personal interest in the people with whom they work with.
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