Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

**ABOUT US** Join us in inspiring everyone to express their unique beauty. IPSY is the beauty industry’s most powerful platform, uniting brands, creators, and hyper-engaged consumers with unprecedented access to each other through the ultimate beauty membership. Home to sample-size subscription IPSY Original, full-size subscription IPSY Extra, and quarterly, limited-edition collection IPSY Ultimate, we curate beauty for millions of members so they can play, explore, and express their unique beauty every day. We think self-discovery, self-expression, and confidence are beautiful. Agree? Then join us! Explore careers and learn more about our values, culture, and benefits across all our brands: [IPSY Careers](https://www.ipsycorporate.com/careers). We're proud to be a **remote-first company.** Our fully remote team members have the chance to live and work where they want, because we believe work should fit into your life—not the other way around. We offer monthly virtual activities, company-wide offsites, professional development, and learning sessions, to help our team members stay connected, engaged, and impactful while working virtually. **United States Remote:** Remote positions which may be performed in any of the states where IPSY has established a Business presence: **Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. [California Privacy Notice](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jGS82ftqnPlT-vJg0U-DMDKOTkz0cx2MwJdSKCB-YCU/edit?usp=sharing)** **Beware job scams!** IPSY recruiters only use @[ipsy.com](http://ipsy.com/) email addresses. We **do not** interview via text/message/Teams. We don't ask for software downloads (except Zoom) and we will never ask for sensitive information (like SSN/bank info). Suspect fraud? Report it to law enforcement and *recruiting@ipsy.com.* **About the Role:** We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team (EDP). The team builds shared foundations — libraries, gateway services, mobile platform support, observability, experimentation/analytics, and AI enablement — that help Frontend and product teams ship reliably at scale for millions of IPSY subscribers across IPSY subscription programs (Original, Extra, Ultimate). You will design, build, and support modern platform solutions in Next.js / TypeScript / Chakra, Kong API Gateway, and React Native, partnering with Infrastructure, SRE, InfoSec, MarTech, and Frontend teams on IPSY's modern platform stack. This is a platform engineering role for a strong TypeScript/React engineer who also wants breadth across gateway services, mobile, observability, analytics, performance, and AI enablement. **This position reports to an Engineering Manager and can be fully remote** **(only from one of the 16 U.S. states where IPSY has a business presence - see above for list).** **What You’ll Be Doing:** - Design, develop, and maintain shared components, libraries, and common services using Next.js / TypeScript / CharkraUI, enabling Frontend teams to build and scale efficiently. - Oversee and optimize Kong API Gateway services, including LUA scripting, and partner with Infrastructure on cloud deployments across AWS, Netlify, and Jenkins to ensure secure, reliable system performance. - Build and support the mobile application ecosystem (React Native), ensuring platform reliability across customer-facing surfaces. - Implement and improve monitoring and observability capabilities using Datadog to maintain system health, operational visibility, and incident response. - Build and evolve the experimentation and analytics platform, enabling product teams to measure engagement, run experiments, and make data-informed decisions using tools such as Statsig and Amplitude. - Drive performance metrics improvements across platform services and customer-facing surfaces, identifying bottlenecks and delivering optimizations that impro…