Software Engineer 2

ABOUT PURPLLE AND OUR MISSION

Purplle is more than a beauty e-commerce destination; we are a technology-first platform redefining how digital scale is managed. We are currently in a transformative phase, moving from manual intervention and firefighting to an era of Systematic Resilience.

Our mission is to build "Unbreakable Systems" - platforms that do not just survive failures but absorb them, self-heal, and scale with the business calmly and predictably. We are looking for engineers who want to stop fixing and start architecting at the highest level.

THE PURPLLE WAY: AI-NATIVE ENGINEERING

We believe that as a business scales, technology should not become more fragile. We have redesigned our entire engineering lifecycle to be AI-native, moving away from manual toil toward a world of intelligent, self-governing systems.

• Velocity without Fear: 70% AI-Assisted

We ship fast because we have built the safety nets to do so. You will not just be a coder; you will be a system architect. We empower our engineers to use AI for the heavy lifting of development, aiming for 70% of Pull Requests to be AI-assisted, so you can focus on complex logic and high-level architecture.

• Built-in Guardrails and Self-Healing Systems

Security and quality are not extra steps; they are built into our Golden Paths. We build systems that use AI for automated rollbacks and deterministic fallback logic, ensuring the platform absorbs mistakes automatically and remains resilient under pressure.

• Intelligence by Default: Zero-Toil Operations

We embed AI across the entire lifecycle - Build, Test, Detect, and Operate. By utilizing AI agents to eliminate Ops Toil, we have created an environment where anomaly detection and incident diagnosis happen in minutes, not hours.

• Predictable Economics and Growth

We treat cloud costs and system performance as core engineering disciplines. Every engineer at Purplle understands the unit economics of their code, ensuring our infrastructure scales as efficiently as our business.

THE PURPLLE ENGINEER: MINDSET AND IMPACT

We are not looking for feature factories; we are looking for owners of a resilient ecosystem. At Purplle, your success is defined by your mindset and the tangible impact you have on our platform.

• The Systems Thinker: Quality and Resilience

You hate fixing the same bug twice. You would rather build a self-healing mechanism than perform a manual fix. Your goal is to maintain a Change Failure Rate below 1.5% and help us reach a state of fewer than 2 Sev-1 incidents per quarter.

• The AI-Fluent Architect: High Velocity

You are already using AI tools to significantly improve your productivity. You leverage these tools to drive a cycle time below 4 hours and maintain a high frequency of daily deployments, moving code from commit to production with total confidence.

• The Data-Informed Engineer: Economic Discipline

You care about the why behind the code. You understand that latency and cloud spend are engineering disciplines, and you optimize your infrastructure so that our cost per order remains predictable as we scale.

• The Proactive Collaborator: Security and Governance

You thrive in a cross-functional environment involving Engineering, Data, DevOps, and Security. You take ownership of the Golden Path, ensuring 100% of your repositories are gated and that zero critical vulnerabilities reach our production environment.

YOUR SPECIFIC MANDATE

In this role, you will be directly responsible for:

• AI-Native Velocity

Lead the 70% AI-assisted PR mandate by mastering Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude to accelerate delivery of Node.js with NestJS and Golang microservices, while keeping human intelligence focused on high-level system design and architecture decisions.

• Unbreakable Backend Architecture

Architect high-throughput, event-driven microservices using Kafka and Redis, embedding resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, health checks, and fallback mechanisms to handle massive traffic spikes without manual intervention.

• Data and Performance Ownership

Own the unit economics of the data layer. Optimize MySQL and MongoDB queries, design efficient schemas, and ensure sub-second p99 latencies with predictable infrastructure costs on GCP.

• End-to-End Golden Path Ownership

Drive features from design documents to Kubernetes deployment, ensuring high reliability through strong engineering practices and maintaining low change failure rates and minimal Sev-1 incidents.

• API and Service Design Excellence

Build clean, versioned, and backward-compatible APIs and modular microservices with a strong focus on maintainability, scalability, and clear service contracts.

• Cloud-Native Operations and Observability

Design and operate services on Kubernetes with robust logging, monitoring, and alerting. Proactively debug production issues and ensure high availability.

• Scalability and Cost Efficiency

Continuously optimize system throughput, fault tolerance, and infrastructure utilization to support high growth while maintaining strict control over cloud costs.

• Technical Leadership and Collaboration

Lead design decisions, write clear RFCs, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, Data, and DevOps teams to drive high-quality outcomes.

• Core Engineering Excellence

Apply strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, and data structures, combined with sharp problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills.

TECH STACK

Languages and Frameworks: Node.js, NestJS, Express, Golang

Data and Messaging: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Aerospike, Elasticsearch

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Docker

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

AI Productivity: Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot

EXPERIENCE

SDE1: 1 to 2 years of backend engineering experience

SDE2: 2 to 5 years of backend engineering experience with strong ownership of production systems

SDE3: 5 to 7 years of experience with a proven track record of designing distributed systems at scale

WHY JOIN PURPLLE TECH?

You will be joining a team that is actively moving away from the chaos of traditional scaling. At Purplle, we are building a tech culture that is "Operational, not Aspirational."

We provide the tools, the AI-first environment, and the Golden Paths to let you do the best work of your career.

If you want to build intelligent, unbreakable systems that scale with confidence, your journey starts here