Lead Software Engineer - Commerce

• Lead Software Engineer - Commerce Lead Software Engineer - Commerce Lead Software Engineer Req ID FY R&D #0 Location(s) Arlington, Virginia, USA;
• Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Dallas, Texas, USA; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Houston, Texas, USA;

Los Angeles, California, USA; Portland, Oregon, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA; Work arrangement(s) Fully Remote (works exclusively from home) Your opportunity Stellar opportunity to join the Commerce team at New Relic! Our team’s mission revolves around offering both a self-serve and sales-led experience to facilitate customer plan management.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll spearhead the design and development of our microservices architecture using Kotlin for backend services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

Additionally, you'll contribute to our full-stack capabilities, leveraging React framework for frontend development. We focus on delivering incremental value, releasing multiple times a day and using Agile techniques, tools and methodologies. What you'll do

• Develop reliable and stable services in Kotlin, Node, Postgresql, Graphql, React, Javascript, Typescript
• Create appealing external user interfaces for plan management and internal tooling in React.
• Use all of New Relic’s cool product features to monitor and troubleshoot your own services.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and data analysts to help define the team’s scope of work for both product-led and engineering-led initiatives
• Participate in a one-week on-call rotation to support our services. We bake stability into everything we do to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Support and mentor your teammates and help them grow in their roles.

This role requires

• 6+ years experience in writing software in Kotlin and / or Java.
• Experience working Javascript and / or Typescript and React or similar frontend frameworks
• Experience with databases such as Postgres and Redis
• Experience in technical leadership and guiding an engineering team
• Having a collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership
• Being comfortable in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques, tools and methodologies.

Bonus points if you have

• Familiarity working with or building GraphQL schemas
• Experience in Ruby or Elixir
• Experience working with data warehouses such as Snowflake

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day.

We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us including nontraditional ones.

Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

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We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.

Our hiring process

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification.

Note : Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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New Relic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, free from all types of discrimination, so our Relics can thrive.

We hire people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

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Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, mental health benefits, a (k) plan and match, flex time-off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

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