Staff Software Engineer

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Growth Engineering): Own end-to-end performance marketing engineering efforts, building growth stack systems such as campaign management, ads bidding optimization, and creative generation pipelines with an accent on low-latency optimization, reliable distributed systems, and measurable business outcomes. Focus on designing scalable architectures, driving data-driven experimentation, and proactively eliminating reliability and performance bottlenecks through strong engineering practices.

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Salary: $230,000-$275,000 USD + bonus + equity

Company

Quince is a direct-to-consumer retail tech company using AI, analytics, and automation to deliver high-quality essentials at low prices.

What you will do

• Own business-critical end-to-end performance marketing initiatives in partnership with marketing, product, data science, and analytics.
• Drive technical design and architecture for growth engineering systems, including campaign management, ads bidding optimization, and creative generation pipelines.
• Collaborate with data science and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into actionable milestones.
• Define performance metrics and make data-driven decisions across the growth stack.
• Identify and resolve systemic engineering gaps such as reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and scaling constraints.
• Lead code review culture and contribute to architecture/design while helping resolve performance issues.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience building and shipping high-impact software systems.
• Proven experience in growth engineering, including owning performance marketing tools, campaign automation pipelines, or ads optimization systems.
• Experience building and maintaining highly reliable distributed systems operating at scale.
• Experience partnering with Data Science to drive performance marketing efficiency.
• Strong A/B testing and data-driven experimentation framework experience.
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and strong operational excellence (availability, performance, stability, latency, observability).

Nice to have

• Knowledge of campaign management and ads bidding optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• High-autonomy role with a bias toward clean, durable solutions and rigorous code reviews.
• Opportunity to work on hard problems at the intersection of technology and performance marketing.
• Compensation includes base salary plus bonus and equity.
• Startup environment with comfort handling ambiguity and experimenting.

Hiring process

• Interviews may be conducted by phone, in person, or via Google Meets or Zoom.
• Background check required for employment.