Solutions Engineer

Location: This position is Hybrid.

Huge is looking for a Solutions Engineer to join the global Tech team. The ideal candidate possesses a wide range of technical knowledge across multiple systems and solution types with a deep understanding and capabilities across one or more systems. The Solution Engineer can learn and understand a new language quickly, jump into a new or existing project on a moment’s notice, recommend or understand the stack, and have an immediate impact on the project.

What will you do?

• Assembling an architecture of multiple platform capabilities to enable a world-class user experience. 
• Define and clearly present the architectural design of a system to the project team and stakeholders alike
• Own and lead architectural conversations
• Design a system that can meet agreed SLAs
• Able to break down the solution to show how the system works and meets requirements
• Identify architectural roadblocks and provide alternate approaches
• Quickly identify critical capabilities or gaps and communicate them to the team
• Create limited scope proof of concepts (POCs) to validate and pattern minimal amounts of scope
• Lead DevOps processes and implement them within a project
• Adapt and apply abstract solutions to individual situations
• Learn new technologies quickly and is able to impart that information to the team, and apply it to a project
• Communicate with other disciplines and teammates to resolve issues
• Focus on individual systems and problems in any given situation
• Mentor the development team and provide thought leadership
• Deliver and ensures engineering best practices
• Make sure code is tested properly by self and others
• Lead work sessions to come up with creative solutions
• Proactively refactor/iterate over the lifecycle of a project in order to achieve simplicity
• Apply security as code across the code base, as well as DevOps tools and practices, and evaluate/recommend new code and DevOps Security tools.
• Work with QA leads and help define the testing strategy

What do we expect from you?

We realize this is a long list and don’t expect candidates to check every box. 

• Proven experience designing and implementing microservices architecture at scale, with particular expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP and Vercel) 
• Demonstrated success building platforms to support web and mobile platforms simultaneously 
• Track record of successfully orchestrating complex third-party API integrations while maintaining system coherence 
• Experience implementing robust authentication systems(Auth0) and content access control for premium/paid content 
• History of architecting and scaling e-commerce solutions with particular focus on security and payment flows 
• Possesses a wide range of technical knowledge across multiple systems and solution types with a deep understanding and capabilities across one or more systems.
• Experience with CMS, ecommerce, CDP, CRM, and mobile app development process
• A track record of architecting large scale, global platforms
• Experience in ensuring high availability through hardening, load testing, and monitoring
• Familiarity with OWASP security best practices
• Experience with RESTful architecture and GraphQL 
• Experience in API Gateway Technologies
• Familiarity with OpenAPI (Swagger) or other API definition languages
• Experience with real time content delivery
• Strong cloud architecture experience (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Strong foundational knowledge of microservice design pattern
• A hands-on engineer, supporting development work while providing senior oversight to the engineering team
• Understanding of video streaming technologies and content delivery networks, especially experience integrating with platforms like Vimeo OTT 
• Background in payment processing and subscription management systems, with knowledge of integrations for PPV
• Experience building real-time, interactive features similar to the application’s TikTok-style content scrolling and community engagement components 

About Huge

Huge is a design and technology company. We create products and experiences that grow the world’s most ambitious brands. We do this by designing experiences for people, not users, and uncovering new sources of growth by leveraging our creative talent, our proprietary platform LIVE and unlocking the advantages brought to us by emerging technologies. We believe all experiences should be intelligent, shoppable and unique to every brand.

Huge’s nearly 1,000 thinkers, tinkerers, makers and creators, have been problem-solving across North America, Europe, and Latin America for over 25 years. Interested? You’ll find more information at www.hugeinc.com.

Huge is committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you’re parenting the next generation of innovators, we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.

Huge is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We strongly support diversity in the workforce. We are committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process and work environment. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise us of any accommodation needed to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process. Any information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

Workers shall not be required to pay employers’ or agents’ recruitment fees or other related fees for their employment. If any such fees are found to have been paid by workers, such fees shall be repaid to the worker.

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