Fitz Frames Hiring for Lead Backend Engineer at Los Angeles, CA Full Time

Lead Backend Engineer

About Fitz:
Fitz is revolutionizing the way people get glasses. No more hours and hours of searching for glasses that fit. Our revolutionary app scans faces, takes millimeter-accurate measurements, and allows shoppers to select from a catalog of frame styles, do a virtual try-on, and order custom 3D printed glasses: delivered right to the home in about a week. Our innovative pricing model means that families will have a plan when life happens.

We’re proudly designed, engineered, and manufactured in the USA. Our team of purpose-driven entrepreneurs love taking on big challenges and finding innovative solutions. We believe in ownership, accountability, innovation, and fun. From our offices in Los Angeles, to our manufacturing facility in Youngstown, Ohio, we’re constantly looking for ways to make the experience of getting glasses better than ever. Fitz: glasses, solved.

We’re looking for a full-stack lead backend engineer to drive technical decisions and implementation. You will get to touch and own all parts of the platform: integration with iOS and Android clients, augmented reality toolkit, ecommerce back-end, marketing automation, data and analytics, and 3D printing and production. As a technical lead you’ll help to establish our engineering culture and help to build out our engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial-minded engineer to have a huge impact both on the product and the overall business.

You will:

• Be actively involved in strategic direction and infrastructure decisions.
• Partner with iOS, product, business leads to plan and prioritize our roadmap.
• Help to define our development process and deliver a regular cadence of releases = ship lots of code!
• Design, build, and maintain APIs used by our native clients.
• Develop and support a robust platform that handles sales, order generation and production integration of our eCommerce stack and our 3D printer and production queue.
• Debug production issues and be responsible for overall infrastructure uptime.

You may be fit for this role if you:

• Have a strong technical background, including 6+ years of experience building impactful products end to end.
• Enjoy being a generalist working on not just the backend but anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally.
• Can stitch together many different services and processes together even if you have not worked with them before.
• Have real-world experience with modern front-end architectures (React, React Admin, CSS, etc.).
• Have experience in some modern language (JavaScript, Java, etc)
• Have managed and developed within the AWS cloud infrastructure and services (Cognito, CodePipeline, S3, CloudFormation)
• Have experience with eCommerce stacks and payment systems (e.g. Stripe).
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate close collaboration with product and business teams.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• manufacturing or operations: 2 years (Required)
• consumer products industry: 2 years (Preferred)

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