About Us:
Nationwide Marketing Group supports thousands of independent retailers across appliances, furniture, bedding, electronics, and custom installation—helping them grow strong businesses without giving up what makes them unique.With over 5,000 members and 14,000 storefronts, we’re the largest group of our kind, built to give independents the scale, tools, and support they need to compete and win.For nearly 50 years, we’ve stayed focused on one thing: helping independents thrive on their own terms—through smarter marketing, better buying power, and real business know-how.Learn more at nationwidegroup.org.
What We'll Do for You:
- Competitive base pay and annual performance bonus
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with low cost employee-only coverage options
- Employer Paid Basic Life/AD&D
- Employer Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- MetLife supplemental insurance benefit options
- Matching 401K with 100% vesting
- Open PTO Policy, Paid Holidays, Paid Maternity/Paternity to help you balance work and personal life
- Business casual work environment
- Discounts Program on Electronics, Cells Phones, Health & Wellness, Travel, Entertainment, Home & Auto, Pet Insurance and more!
Job Location:
Remote;
Open to all U.S. candidates
What You'll Do:
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our growing engineering team responsible for building and scaling our flagship eCommerce platform. OneShop is adding new sites daily and migrating legacy systems into its unified modern foundation. We’re looking for a hands-on senior engineer who is comfortable coding daily, while also mentoring peers and influencing cross-team technical direction. This role requires excellent communication and collaboration skills – you must be able to explain complex technical solutions clearly, earn buy-in across Engineering and Product teams, and help shape how multiple teams align and deliver together.
The ideal candidate has deep experience with Node.js, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and a solid understanding of React for frontend system integration. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about automation, system reliability, and developer productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in Node.js, integrating with React and Hasura/GraphQL for APIs
- Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery) with a focus on reliability and scalability.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automation to improve developer productivity and release quality.
- Partner closely with DevOps, QA, Product, and Leadership to align on decisions that impact broader platform and build seamless end-to-end experiences
- Implement best practices for observability, monitoring, logging, and security
- Mentor and guide engineers at other levels, providing technical reviews, driving discussions, setting coding standards and sharing best practices.
- Lead initiatives to improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance
- Stay current with industry trends and advocate for continuous improvement and innovation
- Break down and articulate complex problems into clear, actionable solutions for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications:
- Required:
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, strong experience with Node.js for backend services and React for frontend integration.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure transferrable), Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD Pipelines.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and container-based architecture
- Proficiency with GraphQL or similar real-time API frameworks
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, or similar)
- Proven ability to communicate technical ideas clearly to engineers, product managers, and leadership.
- Strong problem-solving skills, collaborative mindset, ability to mentor other engineers and drive alignment across teams.
- Preferred:
- Experience in eCommerce Platforms or other large-scale, high-traffic systems
- Background in microservices architecture, service mesh, and event-driven-design.
- Knowledge of WebSockets, or other real-time communication protocols
- Experience with serverless platforms or edge computing
- Contributions to open-source projects
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical demands: While performing duties of the job, incumbent is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, climb or balance, kneel, crawl or crouch, use hands to finger, handle, or feed objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
Employees must occasionally lift, push, pull or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
115000.00 To 125000.00 (USD) Annually
