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    Quince

    Retail

    Staff Engineer - Growth

    Palo Alto, United StatesOn-SiteFull-time8+ yrs experience$230k – $275k / yearPosted 5mo ago
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    ABOUT QUINCE

    Quince is a destination for builders, creators, innovators, and operators who want to come together and challenge the status quo. Our mission is simple: make really high quality essentials for really low prices, fairly and sustainably. We deliver on that mission through a unique manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) model eliminating the layers of traditional retail that add cost and result in consumers paying more than they need to. We find, build relationships with, and work directly with the manufacturing partners behind some of the world’s finest products. From there, our teams design smart, efficient operational processes  and build and deploy proprietary technology, AI, and analytics to help us scale fast.

    What began with a small assortment of elevated basics has quickly grown into a cross-category brand spanning apparel, accessories, home goods, and more. Today, tens of millions of people across a growing number of countries come – and return – to Quince because they trust us to deliver.

    OUR CULTURE

    Quince is a culture built for builders by builders. Our way of working starts with a blank sheet of paper. We question conventional thinking, use technology and data to uncover new opportunities, and move quickly to turn ideas into reality. We aren’t interested in replicating how others do retail. We’re building a better way – at a speed and scale unlike anything that’s been done before.

    • We dream big and chase the hard problems others shy away from. Rejecting long-held assumptions is part of our company's DNA.  Where conventional wisdom says you have to choose – soft or durable, speed or rigor, quality or price – we ask why that trade-off has to exist in the first place.
    • Our pace is fast and the bar is high because our customers expect a lot from us and we refuse to let them down. We believe the best results come from challenging ourselves, learning from one another, and building on each other's strengths.
    • Here, responsibility is not determined by role, tenure, or seniority. Every team member - no matter their level - has the opportunity to drive our business and shape our trajectory.

    If you’re someone who likes to imagine new possibilities and build better systems rather than plug-in to outdated ones, Quince is the place for you.

    THE ROLE

    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.

    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.

    Qualifications

    Required:

    • You have 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.

    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.

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    About the company

    Quince

    Quince is an affordable luxury brand that sells high-quality fashion and home goods at radically low prices— direct from the factory floor. The company has pioneered a manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) retail model in which factories produce inventory on a near just-in-time basis and ship their goods directly to consumers' doorsteps, cutting out financial and environmental waste. Quince is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and partners with more than 50 top manufacturers around the world. Most recently, Quince completed a $77 million Series B upround raise. The investment was led by Wellington Management with participation from GGV Capital, and continuing participation from Basis Set Ventures, Insight Partners, Lugard Road, and 8VC. Visit Quince at quince.com or on Instagram at @onequince.

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    Industry
    Retail
    Founded
    2018
    Open roles
    152

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