Stord

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Job Description: • Own the design, development, and operational health of shared services including authentication/authorization, eventing/messaging, API gateways, and shared libraries • Establish clear service contracts, SLOs, and integration patterns that product teams can rely on • Maintain and improve service documentation, onboarding guides, and self-service tooling for consuming teams • Translate architectural direction from the Principal Engineering Group into production-quality implementations • Build reference implementations that demonstrate how product teams should integrate with shared services • Identify and resolve technical debt in shared services that slows product team velocity • Write clean, well-tested, production-ready code—this is a hands-on building role • Contribute to the technical strategy for unifying Stord’s product suite into a composable marketplace of services Requirements: • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems • Strong proficiency in at least one of: Elixir or TypeScript. Willingness and demonstrated ability to learn the other quickly • Experience designing, building, and operating shared services or platform capabilities consumed by other engineering teams • Track record of taking ownership of ambiguously-scoped technical problems and driving them to resolution • Comfort working across multiple codebases and navigating unfamiliar systems • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: service contracts, event-driven architectures, API design, and failure modes • Clear technical communication—ability to write effective design documents and explain trade-offs to varied audience Benefits: • Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Remote work options