Quince
Software Development Engineer III (Planning and Forecasting)
Palo Alto, California, United States · Mid · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$205k-$215kDetected 30 days ago
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About the role
- Software Development Engineer III (Planning and Forecasting)
- You'll be senior enough to make the local technical calls that don't need to escalate, and to mentor the engineers around you.
- And you'll be in a small enough team that your work will visibly compound.
Responsibilities
- Own a meaningful piece of the planning platform (e.g., feature pipelines, model serving, the experimentation framework, the operator console, or a critical integration) from design through production.
- collaborate with leadership as needed
- Drive the engineering quality bar within your workstream: testing, observability, performance, and operability
- Use AI coding tools fluently in your day-to-day work and help raise the bar across the team for how we build with them
- Mentor juniors on design, code review, and operational ownership
- Drive design reviews for your area
Requirements
- 5-8 years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production systems beyond features-on-rails
- Track record of leading workstreams end-to-end with a small team around you
- comfort with ML-adjacent infrastructure (feature pipelines, model serving, evaluation harnesses)
- AI-native engineering at a level where you can credibly set standards: specific examples of how AI tools changed your shipping cadence, your testing strategy, or the products you've built
- Mentorship track record with adjacent engineers who became better because they worked with you
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent depth of professional experience
Skills
- They're technically opinionated but collaborative; they argue for what they think is right and accept being shown a better answer.
- They are AI-native by reflex.
Compensation
- $205,000 - $215,000 USD
- Joining Quince means being part of a mission-driven team reshaping retail. You will work alongside talented colleagues, tackle meaningful challenges, and contribute to building a more sustainable, accessible future for customers and partners alike.
- Quince is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
- We review all requests individually and will work with you to determine appropriate accommodations on a case-by-case basis.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Quince will conduct background checks in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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Benefits
- Bonus and equity may also be provided for eligible roles.
Company info
- to make really high quality essentials for really low prices, produced fairly and sustainably.
- We believe everyone deserves exceptional craftsmanship and timeless design without the traditional markups.
- Quince is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) model that cuts out middlemen and leverages just-in-time manufacturing to minimize waste and maximize value.
- Quince is a tech company disrupting the retail industry by putting AI, analytics and automation at the center of everything we do.
- Our unwavering commitment to excellence and company values guide our teams and actions:
- Founded in 2018, Quince was built to challenge the idea that nice things have to cost a lot.
- Innovation and transparency ensure value for both customers and partners.
- At Quince, you will be part of a high-performing team that is redefining what quality, value, and sustainability mean in modern retail.
- We are a destination for builders, innovators, and operators to come together and challenge the status quo.
- Our collective ambition is bold.
- We are creating an entirely new category and customer experience - one that democratizes luxury and provides high quality products at radically low prices.
- That mission demands a world-class team committed to excellence.
- If you are motivated by impact, growth, and purpose, you will find a strong sense of belonging at Quince.
- Mentor juniors on design, code review, and operational ownership; raise the average level of the engineers around you
- Drive design reviews for your area; bring rigor to architectural decisions and a willingness to hear pushback
- Partner directly with data scientists on what the platform should expose for them, and with the planning team's operators on what they need to do their job better
- Translate fuzzy operational problems into well-shaped engineering work, without waiting for a PM to translate
Equal opportunity
- If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application or to perform the essential functions of a role at Quince, please let us know by completing this accommodation form.
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