Staff Software Engineer in Tempe, Arizona at RevolutionParts

At RevolutionParts, we’re building the AI powered technology behind how automotive parts are bought and sold online - at real scale, with real complexity, and real impact.
Our platform powers eCommerce for thousands of dealerships, handling massive product catalogs, real-time inventory, complex pricing rules, and high-volume order processing. As we grow, we’re rethinking how our systems scale, how our data flows, and how fast our teams can ship - and that’s where you come in.This role is for engineers who enjoy solving hard, real-world problems, not just writing code in isolation.
The Role
RevolutionParts is looking for talented and dedicated Staff Engineers to help evolve our technology to support our next phase of growth. You'll be joining a team of professionals who are fiercely dedicated to using technology to revolutionize an industry not known for being high-tech: auto parts.
If you want a clear-cut role with the same tasks for years, this is not for you. If you like to Think Big and work on a variety of projects, we need you!
*Please note that this is a hybrid role that requires that you work from our Tempe, Arizona, offices at least 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Thursdays). If you do not currently live in Arizona, you must be willing to relocate to Arizona, or you cannot be considered for the role.
Also note: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor employment-based visas at this time.
AI Fluency & Modern ToolingAt RevolutionParts, we expect team members to actively use modern tools — including AI-powered systems — to improve decision-making, productivity, and quality of work.This includes:

• Using AI tools responsibly to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and problem-solving
• Exercising strong judgment around data privacy, accuracy, and ethical use
• Continuously learning and adapting as AI capabilities evolve

Proven examples of using AI to improve outcomes in prior roles is expected.

Types of problems we are solving

• We have 50 million parts in a DB. Create a back-end technology stack that can support real-time dynamic search of these parts (Google style) -- think "2010 accord water pump". Keywords: ElasticSearch, node.js, parallel processing ??
• We have a history of 700,000 orders. Create a recommendation engine that will suggest other parts along with what a buyer already has in their cart. Oh -- and the recommended part has to fit the same car. Return the result in 100 ms or less. Keywords: Uhm, we're not sure, research technologies that might help accomplish this.
• Create a clean public REST API for parts dealers to import orders that they get from sources other than our stores. Keywords: Authentication, JSON, good API design.
• Create an internal shopping cart service that can manage millions of carts a month. Keywords: memcached/redis, NoSQL, scaling, availability
• We need to spin up 50 servers on AWS to crunch some numbers every month. Let's automate that.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive, hands-on software development experience. We use PHP, but we don't care if PHP is not your strongest language... as long as you are willing to learn!
• Experience leading teams using various Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban to deliver software products
• Deep understanding of OO design and all Computer Science fundamentals
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field - OR over 15 years of software development experience
• Experience working in a cloud-based software development environment, preferably with AWS
• Experience working in a constantly growing and changing environment
• Experience working in multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Experience with payments and/or eCommerce
• A growth mentality - willing to own problems
• Good communication and collaboration skills; comfortable discussing projects with anyone from end users up to the executive company leadership
• Great interpersonal skills including a positive can-do attitude and sense of humor
• A desire to GSD - Get Stuff Done!

Nice to have skills

• Masters Degree in Computer Science
• Experience with Marketplaces

RevolutionParts is proud to provide all full-time Revolutionaries with a comprehensive employment package including competitive compensation, career development, benefits, 401K match, parental leave, and many more valuable perks. You can learn more about our core-value driven culture at our career page.
RevolutionParts is an Equal Opportunity Employer; we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender orientation, gender identity or expression, sexual identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status, genetic information, veteran status, or disability status.
Please Note: You will only receive correspondence through the Gem ATS or from a @revolutionparts.com email address. If you are receiving communication through any other platform or domain, it may be fraudulent, and we urge you to ignore the communication.