Warby Parker · 15 hours ago
Staff Web Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$184K/yr - $210K/yr
7+ years expWarby Parker is on the lookout for a Staff Web Engineer to help drive the evolution of our mission critical business systems. In this role you’ll take ownership of the development, design, testing strategy and standards of the Warby Parker web application.
E-CommerceFashionRetail
Responsibilities
Help build and design a roadmap for your engineering team to build highly scalable, observable, and reliable systems
Drive the execution and delivery of this roadmap across the engineering organization, working closely with stakeholders, SREs, and other principal engineers
Provide technical guidance and facilitate the process of engineering design reviews on migrations towards service-oriented architecture, changes to existing architecture, and making existing systems more scalable
Build a metrics-driven operational culture support our practices for KPI measurement and review, as well as for logging, monitoring, alerting practices
Propose and drive large improvements to business systems to achieve significant impact to our business
Mentor and coach other engineers to be help solve technical challenges and grow overall technical prowesses
Qualification
Required
7+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experienced building modern and performant frontend applications with or more modern client-side frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js) in a professional setting
An expert in domain modeling and system design
Deep technical experience with cloud providers, distributed systems, and service-oriented architecture
A clear, concise communicator with the ability to influence others
Strong belief in accountability, who holds engineering teams to a high standard
An expert in data modeling in one or more modern relational databases
Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Able, willing, and just plain excited to learn new domains quickly
Insatiably curious and passionate about innovation
Not on the Office of Inspector General's List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)
Preferred
Direct involvement with open source software projects
Experience optimizing the JavaScript performance of high-volume systems
Experience using Vercel
Benefits
Health, vision, and dental insurance
Life and AD&D Insurance
Flexible vacation policy
Paid Holidays
Retirement savings plan with a company match
Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
Short-term disability
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Bereavement Support
Education Reimbursement
Free eyewear
And more (just ask!)
Company
Warby Parker
Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (6)
2024 (3)
2023 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$730.5MKey Investors
GoogleD1 Capital PartnersDurable Capital Partners
2025-05-20Post Ipo Equity· $75M
2024-02-21Post Ipo Debt· $120M
2021-09-29IPO
Leadership Team
Dave Gilboa
Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Neil Blumenthal
Co-founder and Co-CEO
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