Lead Engineer, Order Management

Stitch Fix
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 111,800 - 186,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Mentorship","Engineering judgment","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Lead Order Management engineering initiatives from discovery through delivery, owning complex, multi-sprint outcomes across checkout, order lifecycle management, fulfillment orchestration, and partner integrations. Design and build reliable stateful backend services and workflows with a focus on correctness, data consistency, scalability, and recovery. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, set technical direction through tradeoffs, and raise reliability and operational excellence through testing, observability, safe rollouts, and incident learning.

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Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix
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Lead Engineer, Order Management

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Job Summary

Lead Order Management engineering initiatives from discovery through delivery, owning complex, multi-sprint outcomes across checkout, order lifecycle management, fulfillment orchestration, and partner integrations. Design and build reliable stateful backend services and workflows with a focus on correctness, data consistency, scalability, and recovery. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, set technical direction through tradeoffs, and raise reliability and operational excellence through testing, observability, safe rollouts, and incident learning.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead complex, multi-sprint Order Management initiatives end-to-end, independently owning outcomes and driving execution through ambiguity.
  • •Design and build reliable stateful services and workflows across checkout, order lifecycle management, fulfillment orchestration, and partner integrations.
  • •Drive technical decisions by evaluating and documenting options, constraints, and tradeoffs while balancing delivery with maintainability and technical debt.
  • •Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to define scope, milestones, estimates, dependencies, success criteria, and delivery risks.
  • •Improve engineering and operational excellence via automated testing, observability, safe rollout/rollback, incident leadership, and code/design reviews.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 111,800 - 186,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionEquity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex, business-critical backend, distributed, or workflow systems with high correctness and availability.
  • •Fluency in at least one modern programming language (Go, Ruby, Java, or Python) and comfort learning across languages; current stack is primarily Golang and Ruby.
  • •Strong relational database experience (PostgreSQL or MySQL), including data modeling, transactional semantics, schema evolution, and performance.
  • •Experience operating services on a major cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience:5+ yearsE-commerceOrder managementDistributed systemsWorkflow systems
Education:Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationMentorshipEngineering judgmentCross-functional collaboration
Tech Stack:GolangGoRubyRuby on RailsPostgreSQLMySQLAWSGCPAzureKafkaTemporalDatadogChatGPTGitHub CopilotAI-assisted development tools

Company Brief

Stitch Fix
Online personal styling service and apparel retailer that delivers curated clothing and accessories to customers through data-driven styling, algorithmic recommendations, and human stylists.
Industry: Fashion & Apparel
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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