Senior Software Engineer

Online shopping has changed. Today’s e-commerce runs on selling products, not brands. 

SamCart is the only eCommerce software platform built for creators, by creators, who want to build a profitable digital business and experience personal freedom and growth. 

Sr. Software Engineer (Full Stack)

About SamCart Engineering

At SamCart, we are not just coders – we are craftsmen. We are professionals who take pride in and hold ourselves accountable for the applications that we build. We practice discipline in our approach, demanding highly performant, thoroughly tested, and exquisitely designed code from ourselves. We value honest communication, close collaboration, and lifelong continuous learning. We are deeply empathetic to the impact our software has on the lives of our customers, and we readily accept that great responsibility with humility, determination, and skill.

SamCart is looking for an innovative, dedicated, and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Software Engineering team. In this role, you will design, implement, test, and release new features of our e-commerce product. Using modern tools and methodologies, you will leverage deep technical knowledge of object-oriented design to ensure simplicity, changeability, and longevity in our codebases. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a dynamic team of Designers and SDETs to deliver sophisticated e-commerce systems at Internet scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy features across the application stack.
• Follow best practices like test-driven development, refactoring, and simple design.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and testers to ensure features achieve business goals and meet usability and experience standards.
• Pair effectively with other engineers to deliver high-quality code.
• Author technical documentation for workflows and processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in full-stack software development leveraging front-end frameworks (Next.js, React, etc.) and back-end frameworks (Go, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, etc.) 
• Expert knowledge of multiple object-oriented programming languages (PHP, C#, Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, etc.)
• Professional approach to software craftsmanship with an unflinching commitment to the disciplines of test-driven development, refactoring, simple design, collaborative programming, and acceptance tests.
• Demonstrated skill in building reliable software systems incorporating fundamental design principles (design patterns, SOLID, etc.)
• Experience developing and deploying software in a containerized environment.
• At least 5 years of professional experience building software applications leveraging web application frameworks.

This is what you’ll love about SamCart

Our co-founders always say, “Their success is our success,” and we believe that about our people, too! We want everyone to love their job at least 80% of the time, and when you are successful, the whole team is successful. 

• Diversity adds value to everything we do. We hire from and for a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, allowing the team to bring their unique ways of thinking and working to each project.
• We have unlimited PTO with an encouraged 14-day minimum to empower our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their day-to-day lives.  
• Yay, we have 401K! 
• Health Insurance premiums are covered 100% by SamCart for you +1, be it a significant other or child. 
• Supportive parental leave policies for all parents 
• Career growth and development are essential here at SamCart, and we want all team members to build sustainable, future-proof, and adaptable careers.

Our Core Values

• Play to Win. We play offense every single day. Unshaken by bigger companies, we see them as proof of what’s possible. We adapt, innovate, and outthink them.
• Take Risks, Embrace Failure. Fear doesn’t paralyze us—standing still does. We take risks and embrace failure because it’s the quickest path to success.
• Complexity is the enemy. We keep it simple and stay lean in everything we do—our teams, projects, product, and strategies. We double down on what works, perfecting the few things we do best.
• Ahead of the Curve. Always. We combine intuition, experience, and data to drive breakthrough ideas. We stay curious, spot trends early, and know our customers, market, and business better than anyone.
• The Customer is everything. We treat their business like it’s our own. Their wins are our wins. Their goals are our goals.
• Work with Purpose, Live with Balance. Work is important, but it’s not everything. Our greatest wins happen when we bring our best to work, without sacrificing what matters most: our families, friends, and our personal growth.

Want to learn more about what SamCart Culture looks like? Check out our Culture Page here: Culture @ SamCart