Software Developer

Job Description:

The Software Developer is a hands-on individual contributor within the engineering team, with primary focus on Lensrentals’ e-commerce platform. This role builds, tests, and maintains features across the front-end, back-end, and database layers, working from technical direction set by senior and lead engineers. The Software Developer collaborates with teammates and, as needed, with Digital & Marketing partners to deliver work that helps reach and engage audiences, build customer knowledge and trust, and improve the overall digital experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops, tests, and maintains software features across front-end, back-end, and database layers, contributing to core e-commerce systems

• Implements well-scoped features and enhancements from tickets, specifications, and technical direction provided by senior and lead engineers

• Builds and improves customer-facing digital experience features such as navigation, search, filters, and recommendations

• Follows established architectural patterns and technical direction, raising questions and surfacing implementation concerns to senior engineers when trade-offs arise

• Participates in planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, providing estimates and status updates for assigned work

• Collaborates with Digital & Marketing stakeholders as needed to clarify requirements and validate that delivered work meets intent

• Participates in code reviews, both submitting work for review and reviewing peers’ changes against team coding standards

• Investigates and resolves software defects and performance issues within assigned systems, escalating complex or cross-system problems as appropriate

• Communicates progress, blockers, and dependencies clearly and promptly to the team

• Pairs with and supports junior engineers on onboarding, tooling, and day-to-day technical questions

• Contributes ideas for improving team processes, tools, and delivery practices

• Maintains technical documentation in accordance with departmental standards

Education and/or Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience accepted in lieu of degree

• Minimum 4 years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications

• Demonstrated ability to independently deliver well-scoped features with limited day-to-day supervision

• Experience collaborating with teammates and non-technical partners (e.g., marketing, digital, product) to clarify and deliver requirements

• Exposure to e-commerce platforms or customer-facing digital experience work (search, recommendations, personalization, A/B testing) preferred

• Solid working knowledge of full stack development including front-end frameworks, back-end services, and relational databases

• Ability to write, review, and debug production-quality code in one or more of the team’s core languages and frameworks, e.g. Go, Ruby on Rails, React, with willingness to learn the others

• Working understanding of software design principles such as SOLID

• Familiarity with version control, testing practices, and CI/CD workflows

• Exposure to distributed systems concepts and NoSQL datastores is a plus, but not required

• Ability to manage personal workload and meet committed deadlines for assigned tasks

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work; primarily performed at a desk in an office environment.

• Ability to operate standard office equipment including computer, keyboard, and mouse for extended periods.

Location: Remote - USStatus: Full Time