Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

Palo Alto, California, United States

About Quince

Founded in 2018, Quince was built to challenge the idea that nice things have to cost a lot. Our mission is simple: 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:

• Customer First: We prioritize customer satisfaction in every decision.
• High Quality: True quality means premium materials and rigorous production standards you can feel good about.
• Essential Design: We focus on timeless, functional essentials instead of chasing trends.
• Always a Better Deal: Innovation and transparency ensure value for both customers and partners.
• Social & Environmental Responsibility: We commit to sustainable materials, ethical production, and fair wages.

Quince partners with world-class manufacturers across the globe and serves millions of customers. With strong investor backing and a focus on sustainable growth, we are a company that is rapidly scaling while maintaining a commitment to quality, simplicity, and radical price transparency.

Our Team and Success

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.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a deeply technical growth engineer who combines hands-on execution with system-level thinking. You have built and operated production-grade marketing automation systems at scale — from campaign management pipelines and ads bidding infrastructure to creative generation tooling and experimentation frameworks — and you take pride in engineering platforms that drive measurable business outcomes.

You are the kind of engineer who gravitates toward the hardest problems at the intersection of technology and performance marketing: designing a low-latency bidding optimization engine, building a reliable creative generation pipeline, or defining the architectural patterns that will shape how Quince scales its growth stack. You operate with high autonomy, hold yourself to exceptional standards, and naturally raise the bar for the engineers around you through rigorous code reviews, sharp technical judgment, and a bias toward clean, durable solutions over quick fixes.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own business critical end-to-end efforts on performance marketing initiatives, working closely with the marketing, product, data science and analytics teams to deliver high-quality and high-performance tooling and systems.
• Drive technical design and architecture for growth engineering systems, including campaign management, ads bidding optimization, and creative generation pipelines.
• Collaborate across other engineering teams and the data science org to understand and implement business requirements.
• Partner with stakeholders to define and refine requirements, ensuring they are translated into actionable tasks and milestones.
• Define performance metrics and drive data-driven decisions across the growth stack.
• Identify and resolve systemic engineering gaps — reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and scaling constraints — proactively.
• Drive a code review culture and contribute to the development of architecture and design, and help identify and resolve performance issues.
• Drive alignment with leadership and team members along with your management counterparts.

Experience Required

• Excellent computer science fundamentals
• 8+ years of industry experience building and shipping high-impact software systems.
• Proven experience in growth engineering, including building and owning performance marketing tools, campaign automation pipelines, or ads optimization systems.
• Experience building and maintaining highly reliable distributed systems that operate at scale.
• Experience partnering with Data Science to drive performance marketing efficiency.
• Knowledge of campaign management and ads bidding optimization is a strong plus.
• Experience with A/B testing frameworks and data-driven experimentation.
• Deep familiarity with full-stack development workflows, product ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize service availability, performance, and stability through operational excellence.
• You are an advocate for maintaining the highest standards in terms of code quality, latency, and observability.
• You understand the hustle of a startup and are good at handling ambiguity.
• You can effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You are a curious, quick learner, scrappy, and someone who loves to experiment.

Pay Range: $230,000-$275,000 + bonus + equity

All posted ranges are reflective of base salary and may vary depending upon experience level and location. Bonus and equity may also be provided for eligible roles.

Pay Range

$230,000 - $275,000 USD

Why Quince?

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.

Equal Opportunity & Hiring Integrity

Quince provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applications for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Quince is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. 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. 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.

Security Advisory: Beware of Frauds

At Quince, we're dedicated to recruiting top talent who share our drive for innovation. To safeguard candidates, Quince emphasizes legitimate recruitment practices. Initial communication is primarily via official Quince email addresses and LinkedIn; beware of deviations. Personal data and sensitive information will not be solicited during the application phase. Interviews are conducted via phone, in person, or through the approved platforms Google Meets or Zoom—never via messaging apps or other calling services. Offers are merit-based, communicated verbally, and followed up in writing. If personal information is requested to initiate the hiring process, rest assured it will be through secure and protected means.