Warby Parker is on the lookout for a Staff Web Engineer to help drive the evolution of our mission critical business systems. In this role youll take ownership of the development, design, testing strategy & standards of the Warby Parker web application. Youll also help establish best practices & guidance around all aspects of our technology in order to help build a best-in-class technology discipline. Think youve got the goods? Keep reading.

What youll do:

• Help build & design a roadmap for your engineering team to build highly scalable, observable, & reliable systems
• Drive the execution & delivery of this roadmap across the engineering organization, working closely with stakeholders, SREs, & other principal engineers 
• Provide technical guidance & facilitate the process of engineering design reviews on migrations towards service-oriented architecture, changes to existing architecture, & making existing systems more scalable
• Build a metrics-driven operational culture support our practices for KPI measurement & review, as well as for logging, monitoring, alerting practices
• Propose & drive large improvements to business systems to achieve significant impact to our business 
• Mentor & coach other engineers to be help solve technical challenges & grow overall technical prowesses

Who you are:

• Backed by 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experienced building modern & performant frontend applications with or more modern client-side frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular, Ember) in a professional setting
• An expert in domain modeling & system design
• Someone with deep technical experience with cloud providers, distributed systems, & service-oriented architecture
• A clear, concise communicator with the ability to influence others
• Someone with a strong belief in accountability, who holds engineering teams to a high standard
• An expert in data modeling in one or more modern relational databases
• Someone with strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, & complexity analysis
• Able, willing, & just plain excited to learn new domains quickly
• Insatiably curious & passionate about innovation
• Not on the Office of Inspector Generals List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)

Extra credit:

• Direct involvement with open source software projects
• Experience optimizing the JavaScript performance of high-volume systems

Some benefits of working at Warby Parker for full-time employees:

• Health, vision, & dental insurance
• Life & AD&D Insurance
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid Holidays
• Retirement savings plan with a company match
• Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
• Short-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Bereavement Support
• Education Reimbursement
• Free eyewear
• And more (just ask!)