{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"da8ed204b483ecab0b2f8399","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/da8ed204b483ecab0b2f8399","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/da8ed204b483ecab0b2f8399","title":"Senior Full-Stack Engineer, E-Commerce Platform","description":"About Us:\n\nJetPens is a growing online retailer with over 20 years of history. We specialize in premium writing instruments and office supplies, and have been featured in Wired, New York Times, and CNBC.\n\nAt JetPens, software is central to nearly every part of the company, from how customers discover and purchase products to how orders move through inventory and fulfillment. Our custom platform supports millions of customers and a complex physical operation.\n\nRole:\nWe are looking for a backend-leaning Senior Full-Stack Engineer to help build and evolve the software behind our e-commerce business.\nYou’ll work directly with our principal engineer, help shape technical decisions, and modernize a successful platform through thoughtful, incremental improvements.\nThis is an opportunity for unusually broad ownership inside a stable, profitable business, not a narrowly defined role maintaining one small service.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign, build, test, and maintain features across JetPens’ customer-facing e-commerce site and internal business systems.\nOwn important work in areas such as checkout, payments, inventory, order processing, fulfillment, and customer communications.\nUnderstand business problems, evaluate tradeoffs, propose solutions, and carry work through implementation and deployment.\nInvestigate difficult problems across application logic, relational data, third-party integrations, and the production environment.\nImprove application performance, reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.\nModernize the application through carefully scoped changes that preserve stability and business continuity.\nDocument systems, operational procedures, and architectural decisions so knowledge remains accessible and useful.\nRequirements:\nA track record of independently designing, shipping, and maintaining significant production web features.\nStrong backend engineering fundamentals in PHP or another server-side language.\nStrong SQL and relational-database skills, including experience investigating performance and data-integrity problems.\nThe ability to trace difficult problems across application logic, data, integrations, and the production environment.\nComfort working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while remaining primarily backend-focused.\nSound technical judgment, including the ability to explain tradeoffs, identify risks, and choose solutions appropriate to the problem.\nWillingness to understand existing code and business behavior before changing them.\nClear written communication and disciplined documentation habits.\nBonus Points:\nProfessional experience developing PHP applications.\nExperience with e-commerce, payment processing, inventory, ERP, or warehouse systems.\nExperience improving database or application performance.\nFamiliarity with application infrastructure, caching, search, observability, or security.\nExperience incrementally modernizing a large, mature application.\nExperience working effectively on a small engineering team.\nTechnology Environment:\nOur platform is a large, mature web application built primarily with PHP and MySQL.\nMost interfaces are server-rendered, with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript used for customer-facing and internal applications.\nThe broader environment includes Linux-based production systems, containerized services, caching and search systems, and integrations with payment providers and other external services.\nYou do not need previous experience with every part of this environment. Strong backend engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn an unfamiliar codebase matter more than matching a checklist of tools.\nPrior PHP experience is helpful but not required, but you must be interested in using PHP as your primary development language.\nHours & Pay:\nBusiness hours are 9:00 AM PST - 5:30 PM Pacific Time.\nAnticipated starting salary range:\nSan Francisco Bay Area, New York City, and Seattle:\n$185K - $220K / year.\nOther U.S. locations:\n$155K - $220K / year.\nThis role may be local or remote.\nRemote employees must maintain at least four hours of overlap with Pacific Time business hours.\nWe prefer candidates who can be employed in the United States, but we may consider exceptional international candidates.\nThis is an exempt position.\nBenefits:\nBenefits for eligible U.S. employees include:\nUp to 99% company-paid premiums for health, dental & vision insurance.\nPartial dependent health insurance.\nHealth flexible spending account.\nCompany-paid long-term disability & life insurance.\nCommuter benefits.\nBenefits for all employees regardless of location include:\nPaid time off.\nPaid company holidays.\n401(k) retirement plan with 4% company match.\nAdditional Perks:\n\nEmployee purchase discounts, employee product giveaways, company parties, & free snacks.\n\nHow to Apply:\nPlease apply via JobScore link:\nPlease include a resume with a cover letter. Applications without a cover letter will not be reviewed.\nFor candidates who are within 10 years of graduation, please also include a college transcript.\n\nJetPens is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under California law.\n\nEmployment with the company is at-will, meaning either the employee or the company may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or notice.","company":"Jetpenscom","rawCompany":"jetpenscom","city":"San Jose","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-23T10:20:42.472Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Full-Stack Engineer, E-Commerce Platform","description":"About Us:\n\nJetPens is a growing online retailer with over 20 years of history. We specialize in premium writing instruments and office supplies, and have been featured in Wired, New York Times, and CNBC.\n\nAt JetPens, software is central to nearly every part of the company, from how customers discover and purchase products to how orders move through inventory and fulfillment. Our custom platform supports millions of customers and a complex physical operation.\n\nRole:\nWe are looking for a backend-leaning Senior Full-Stack Engineer to help build and evolve the software behind our e-commerce business.\nYou’ll work directly with our principal engineer, help shape technical decisions, and modernize a successful platform through thoughtful, incremental improvements.\nThis is an opportunity for unusually broad ownership inside a stable, profitable business, not a narrowly defined role maintaining one small service.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign, build, test, and maintain features across JetPens’ customer-facing e-commerce site and internal business systems.\nOwn important work in areas such as checkout, payments, inventory, order processing, fulfillment, and customer communications.\nUnderstand business problems, evaluate tradeoffs, propose solutions, and carry work through implementation and deployment.\nInvestigate difficult problems across application logic, relational data, third-party integrations, and the production environment.\nImprove application performance, reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.\nModernize the application through carefully scoped changes that preserve stability and business continuity.\nDocument systems, operational procedures, and architectural decisions so knowledge remains accessible and useful.\nRequirements:\nA track record of independently designing, shipping, and maintaining significant production web features.\nStrong backend engineering fundamentals in PHP or another server-side language.\nStrong SQL and relational-database skills, including experience investigating performance and data-integrity problems.\nThe ability to trace difficult problems across application logic, data, integrations, and the production environment.\nComfort working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while remaining primarily backend-focused.\nSound technical judgment, including the ability to explain tradeoffs, identify risks, and choose solutions appropriate to the problem.\nWillingness to understand existing code and business behavior before changing them.\nClear written communication and disciplined documentation habits.\nBonus Points:\nProfessional experience developing PHP applications.\nExperience with e-commerce, payment processing, inventory, ERP, or warehouse systems.\nExperience improving database or application performance.\nFamiliarity with application infrastructure, caching, search, observability, or security.\nExperience incrementally modernizing a large, mature application.\nExperience working effectively on a small engineering team.\nTechnology Environment:\nOur platform is a large, mature web application built primarily with PHP and MySQL.\nMost interfaces are server-rendered, with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript used for customer-facing and internal applications.\nThe broader environment includes Linux-based production systems, containerized services, caching and search systems, and integrations with payment providers and other external services.\nYou do not need previous experience with every part of this environment. 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