Senior Software Engineer - Digital Experience Team

IPSY is a beauty platform that connects brands, creators, and consumers through beauty membership programs. The Senior Software Engineer will join the Digital Experience team to build and support shared platform foundations, gateway services, mobile capabilities, observability, experimentation and analytics, performance improvements, and AI enablement.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain shared components, libraries, and common services using Next.js / TypeScript / CharkraUI, enabling Frontend teams to build and scale efficiently
• Oversee and optimize Kong API Gateway services, including LUA scripting, and partner with Infrastructure on cloud deployments across AWS, Netlify, and Jenkins to ensure secure, reliable system performance
• Build and support the mobile application ecosystem (React Native), ensuring platform reliability across customer-facing surfaces
• Implement and improve monitoring and observability capabilities using Datadog to maintain system health, operational visibility, and incident response
• Build and evolve the experimentation and analytics platform, enabling product teams to measure engagement, run experiments, and make data-informed decisions using tools such as Statsig and Amplitude
• Drive performance metrics improvements across platform services and customer-facing surfaces, identifying bottlenecks and delivering optimizations that improve reliability and user experience at scale
• Contribute to AI enablement across the platform, building shared tooling and patterns that help engineering teams integrate AI-powered capabilities safely and efficiently

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience developing platform or full-stack applications in JavaScript/TypeScript, with Next.js and React
• Experience designing and maintaining shared libraries, common services, or internal platform components used by multiple engineering teams
• Hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway, including LUA scripting
• Experience with AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins), and deployments on composable platforms such as Netlify or Vercel, in partnership with Infrastructure teams
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog), product analytics or experimentation platforms (e.g., Statsig and Amplitude), and performance measurement at scale
• A creative, precise problem solver with a strong focus on building modern, scalable platform solutions
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and comfort partnering with Infrastructure, SRE, and security stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Must be legally authorized to work full-time in the U.S. without requiring current or future visa sponsorship
• Experience with Storybook, design systems, and component libraries such as Chakra UI
• Experience building platform tooling or integrations that enable AI-powered product capabilities
• Experience working in subscription and/or e-commerce companies