Location: Los Angeles area

Remote: Open to remote anywhere or hybrid in the LA area

Willing to relocate: Leaning toward no

Technologies: Lately Ruby/Rails. Python/Flask before that. Some React sprinkled in there. I'm not too picky about tech stack – I've switched a few times and I'll probably be able to pick yours up.

Resume: on request

Role: targeting senior/staff backend IC. Not interested in director, EM, or heavy leadership type roles – I want to stay hands on.

Email: audible.cleats-07@icloud.com

I'm a value-minded backend engineer, currently in a staff+ role at a successful ecomm company. 15ish YoE, most of that in startups, most of those backend roles. My main strengths are:

- Pragmatism: doing what's right for the company/business rather than what seems cool in terms of tech.

- Aptitude for understanding complex legacy systems & working productively within them (I'm not going to say "this sucks! we need to stop everything and rewrite it!" a week after joining)

- Curiosity/interest in learning about the business and customers impacted by my work (so I can do a better job of building). Learning new domains and new business areas is one of the things I like most about changing jobs.

- Willingness to color outside the lines when needed to make the company successful (e.g., putting on my PM hat to fill in gaps where needed). I think of this as a "fixer" mindset.

I'm passively looking for my next role. Main priorities are:

- Sustainable pace, and good work/life balance. I don't want an org that encourages – explicitly or implicitly – folks to work themselves to burnout.

- Financially solid/healthy company (for obvious reasons in this economy)

- Diverse team (in age, seniority, past experience, etc). I want different perspectives to learn from.

- Collegial, friendly, supportive team dynamic.

- Collaborative and open product/eng relationship.

Open on tech stack – I'm a quick learner and not snobby about them. Pretty open on industry/company focus. I specialize in logistics now & would love to continue learning about that, but not a requirement. I'm in LA and like it here, but would consider relocating to the SF Bay Area or NYC for a really awesome fit (and a really strong offer).