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Principal Engineer - Warehouse Management System

Brisbane, Ca or Remote

 

 

Principal Engineer - Warehouse Management System

At Trove Recommerce

Remote 

 

About Trove Recommerce

Recognized in 2020 by FastCo as one of the world's most innovative companies, Trove powers resale for the world's most inspired brands and retailers.  We provide brands with the technology and logistics to own the secondary market for their products.  With our white-label capabilities, our partners reap the rewards of managing their own resale market by accelerating long-term revenue, increasing customer loyalty, gaining new customers and boosting store and site traffic.  Resale is a revenue and customer engagement opportunity growing at 5 times the rate of e-commerce and 21 times the rate of traditional retail.  We power in-store and online retail for leaders such as Patagonia, REI, Eileen Fisher, Arc’teryx, Allbirds, Carhartt, Michael Kors, Levi’s, and more.

 

About the Principal Engineer role

In this position, you will serve as a technical leader focused on our Recommerce Warehouse Management System (ReWMS), the critical infrastructure powering our recommerce operations. You will architect and evolve ReWMS to efficiently handle inventory processing, order fulfillment, and warehouse operations that are essential to giving products multiple lifecycles. As a Principal Engineer, you'll balance technical innovation with operational stability, ensuring ReWMS can scale to support growing business volume while maintaining performance and reliability. Your work will directly impact our ability to process second-hand goods efficiently, a cornerstone of our sustainable retail mission.

 

What You’ll Do

  • Architect and evolve our Recommerce Warehouse Management (ReWMS) System to support increasing scale and complexity of warehouse operations
  • Design robust integrations between ReWMS and other critical systems (e-commerce platform, 3PLs and ERPs)
  • Lead technical decisions regarding ReWMS customizations, extensions, and optimizations to support unique recommerce workflows
  • Partner with warehouse operations teams to translate their requirements into technical solutions
  • Establish monitoring, observability, and reliability practices for mission-critical ReWMS components
  • Mentor and guide engineers working on ReWMS-related projects and initiatives
  • Create technical roadmaps for ReWMS enhancements that align with business growth objectives

 

Experience You Bring

  • Strong experience designing and implementing warehouse management systems or similar logistics/supply chain technologies
  • Deep understanding of inventory management, order processing, and fulfillment workflows
  • Track record of optimizing system performance in high-volume transaction environments
  • Experience with asynchronous processing, queueing systems, and distributed system design
  • Knowledge of database design and optimization for inventory and order management use cases
  • Ability to balance technical elegance with pragmatic solutions that solve immediate operational needs
  • Excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between warehouse operations and engineering teams
  • Passion for sustainability and the circular economy, with a drive to build technology that makes recommerce more efficient and scalable

 

Bonus Points If You Have

  • Experience with specific WMS platforms or logistics software (Manhattan, HighJump, etc.)
  • Background in designing systems that handle unique recommerce challenges like product condition grading or authentication
  • Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Prior experience working at a startup

 

Why Work Here? 

  • Flexible Remote Workplace - Trove’s flexible schedule and remote workplace allows employees more freedom in their schedule, which is invaluable when it comes to attending to the needs of personal and work life needs.
  • Flexible PTO - Our flexible vacation company policy allows employees to take leave as they need.
  • 401K - Employees can set aside pre-tax dollars to invest in a qualified retirement investment plan. 
  • Medical/Dental/Vision plan options
  • Equity/Share Options - The longer the employee works, the more stocks become available to purchase.
  • Learning Fund - Exempt employees have access to a pool of funds to support execution of their self-development goals and objectives. 
  • Partner Discounts - Enjoy eligibility for Pro Accounts and various partner discounts from Patagonia, Arcteryx and Eileen FIsher
  • Mission Driven - Work alongside passionate people to build the leading recommerce infrastructure and  the circular economy.

Trove is committed to creating an equitable and transparent workplace. The annual compensation range for this position is $190,000 - $234,000 and equity. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, location and skills and may vary from the range listed above. 

Trove is proud to be an equal opportunity company. We believe that diversity and gender balance will help us reach our full potential. At Trove we are building a company where we are not only proud of our mission, but how we are pursuing it. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status and we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.

 

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