Senior Staff Engineer

Spreetail propels brands to increase their ecommerce market share across the globe while improving their operational costs. Learn how we are building one of the fastest-growing ecommerce companies in history: www.spreetail.com.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for architecting and building a brand-new, scalable platform that enables business-critical ecommerce capabilities.

This role requires deep full-stack expertise and prior experience in e-commerce SaaS environments. The engineer will design foundational architecture, define technical standards, and deliver a production-grade platform that supports long-term growth, extensibility, and operational excellence.

This is a highly autonomous role with significant influence over system design, technical direction, and engineering best practices.

Why Spreetail

Join a high-performing technology organization that values innovation, ownership, and collaboration. You’ll work with talented engineers who care deeply about building scalable systems and driving real business impact. Together, we’ll make Spreetail better.

How you will achieve success

• A scalable, multi-tenant 3PL platform capable of onboarding external clients with distinct catalogs, inventory, and fulfillment rules
• Reliable core systems for inventory management, order routing, and warehouse operations across client accounts
• Fast, low-friction onboarding for new 3PL clients through configurable, reusable platform components
• Accurate, real-time inventory and order visibility for both internal ops teams and external clients
• Reliable, observable, self-healing fulfillment pipelines with clear SLAs clients can be sold against
• Reduced manual intervention in exception handling (mis-ships, short-ships, returns, billing disputes) through AI-driven automation
• Clear architectural direction as the 3PL platform scales from first clients to broad external adaptation.

What experiences will help you in this role

• 6–8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems
• Experience informally or formally leading the technical direction of a team or workstream (design reviews, mentorship, setting standards)
• Experience with ecommerce order management, inventory, warehouse, or logistics systems is a strong plus
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, still-being-defined 0-to-1 environment

Technical Skills

• Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: APIs, data modeling, databases, and distributed systems
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native service design
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (queues, streams, async processing)
• Strong testing, debugging, and production-support practices

Technical Leadership

• Ability to set technical direction and make sound judgment calls without direct authority
• Strong code review and mentorship instincts
• Comfort representing a workstream in broader architecture discussions

Domain & AI Exposure (Nice to Have)

• Exposure to EDI standards or 3PL/WMS integration patterns
• Experience integrating ML model outputs (forecasts, predictions, anomaly scores) into application logic
• Interest in growing domain expertise in e-commerce logistics and fulfillment

Collaboration & Communication

• Ability to influence and align engineers without formal authority over them
• Clear written and verbal communication, especially in async, distributed team settings
• Comfort balancing hands-on technical work with guiding others