Full-Time
Principal Engineer
Warehouse Engineering
Updated on 9/8/2026
Quince
1,001-5,000 employees
Direct-to-consumer fashion and home goods retailer
No salary listed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- 12+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale operational, supply chain, logistics, warehouse, or similar systems.
- Proven experience architecting and scaling distributed systems and event-driven architectures in production.
- Deep expertise in designing highly reliable systems where data integrity, consistency, and operational correctness are critical.
- Experience designing integration platforms and replacing bespoke integrations with standardized, scalable frameworks.
- Strong understanding of multi-tenant architecture, data isolation, application programming interface design, configuration management, and platform extensibility.
- Experience setting technical direction across multiple engineering teams or business domains.
- Strong understanding of inventory management, fulfillment workflows, and operational system design.
- Experience balancing scalability, performance, reliability, observability, and operational complexity.
- Strong technical communication skills with the ability to influence senior engineering and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and drive engineering excellence across teams.
- Experience working with artificial intelligence-enabled development workflows and/or integrating artificial intelligence capabilities into production systems.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with significant ambiguity and ownership.
- Architect and build a standardized integration platform connecting Quince with third-party warehouse operators and warehouse management system platforms.
- Define integration contracts, application programming interfaces, data models, and engineering standards that minimize bespoke development for new warehouse partners.
- Build scalable mechanisms for monitoring, reconciliation, error handling, and operational visibility across warehouse integrations.
- Establish platform capabilities that simplify warehouse onboarding and improve reliability across the warehouse network.
- Define the architecture and technical strategy for Quince’s proprietary Warehouse Management System.
- Build systems supporting inbound, outbound, inventory, fulfillment, and warehouse execution workflows.
- Design the platform to support both Quince-operated facilities and third-party warehouse operators.
- Establish scalable multi-tenant architecture, including data isolation, configuration management, access controls, and extensibility.
- Define architectural patterns that allow the Warehouse Management System to evolve into a scalable platform for external warehouse operators.
- Drive the architecture and evolution of Quince’s end-to-end returns platform.
- Design systems supporting return intake, inventory reconciliation, restocking, refurbishment, replenishment, and disposition.
- Build operational capabilities that provide visibility into reverse logistics workflows and enable efficient throughput.
- Ensure returns systems meet high standards for reliability, scalability, observability, and data integrity.
- Drive the adoption of artificial intelligence-native engineering practices across warehouse technology.
- Identify opportunities to apply artificial intelligence to exception management, warehouse operations, workflow automation, and operational decision-making.
- Partner with Data Science and Operations Research teams to productionize artificial intelligence and optimization models within warehouse systems.
- Establish reliable architecture patterns for integrating artificial intelligence capabilities into operational workflows while maintaining correctness and reliability.
- Define the long-term technical vision, architecture principles, and roadmap for warehouse engineering.
- Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction across warehouse, logistics, supply chain, and platform teams.
- Establish engineering standards around scalability, reliability, observability, data integrity, and operational excellence.
- Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and systemic opportunities across warehouse technology.
- Make high-impact technical decisions while balancing immediate business needs with long-term platform scalability.
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and raise the technical bar across the engineering organization.
- Partner closely with warehouse operations, logistics, product, and business stakeholders to translate operational challenges into scalable technical solutions.
- Influence technical strategy across multiple teams and domains without relying solely on organizational authority.
- Contribute to hiring, talent development, and building a high-performing engineering organization.
- Represent warehouse engineering in broader technical and organizational initiatives.
- Direct experience designing or building Warehouse Management Systems at scale.
- Experience working with commercial Warehouse Management System platforms and understanding the trade-offs between vendor solutions and custom-built systems.
- Experience with reverse logistics, inventory condition management, refurbishment, and disposition workflows.
- Experience in e-commerce fulfillment, third-party logistics operations, retail, logistics, or large-scale warehouse networks.
- Strong understanding of warehouse automation, inventory accuracy, fulfillment optimization, or operational planning systems.
- Experience building multi-tenant software-as-a-service platforms serving external customers, operators, or partners.
- Experience partnering with Data Science or Operations Research teams to productionize optimization and decision-making models.
- Experience in high-growth, technology-first organizations with highly autonomous engineering teams.
Quince operates an online, direct-to-consumer retail platform for fashion and lifestyle items. Customers browse and buy items such as dresses, blouses, leather goods, and home essentials on Quince’s website, with prices kept low by sourcing directly from manufacturers around the world. It differentiates itself by pursuing direct global sourcing to offer affordable luxury and by building a community of customers who share experiences on social media with #OneQuince. The goal is to provide high-quality products at accessible prices while growing a loyal online community around the Quince brand.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$958M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2018
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Quince raised $500 million on March 11, 2026, valuing it at $10.1 billion.
- Revenue topped $2 billion annualized in February 2026, after surpassing $1 billion in 2025.
- June 15, 2026 jury invalidated Deckers' UGG design patent, validating Quince's dupe playbook.
What critics are saying
- Mandel v. Last Brand expanded July 8, 2026, attacking Quince's pricing disclosures.
- Williams-Sonoma's November 2025 lawsuit targets Quince's 'Beyond Compare' charts and brand comparisons.
- Quince's dupe identity invites copycat fatigue; one adverse injunction would cripple customer acquisition.
What makes Quince unique
- Quince’s M2C system cuts retail markup, shipping factory-direct cashmere, bedding, and furniture.
- Quince pairs AI demand forecasting with near just-in-time manufacturing across 50-plus factory partners.
- Quince is building a broader luxury-basics platform, adding Canada, Europe, and beauty in 2026.
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↑ 46%One block of wood, four generations, 120 years. How a Michigan innovation became the foundation of four generations of Holland Bowl Mill August 13, 2026 West Michigan was already becoming a manufacturing powerhouse when Louis Fuller started making bowls in North Muskegon in 1906, where he developed the concept of making nesting bowls from a single block of wood. The region's forests supplied lumber and paper mills, its rivers and Great Lakes moved raw materials and finished goods, and its factories turned wood into furniture and other products that would become hallmarks of the region. Fuller found his own niche. He developed a remarkably efficient process that became the foundation of a business that would eventually make its way from North Muskegon to Holland and, 120 years later, into homes around the country. The story took a turn toward Holland in 1926, when Chester Van Tongeren opened the Wooden Shoe Factory. By the 1960s, the popular tourist attraction was selling Fuller bowls in its gift shops. The businesses remained connected for decades, and in 1987 Van Tongeren's grandson, Dave Gier, acquired the bowl business. In 1999, Gier made the decision to focus exclusively on bowls and renamed the company Holland Bowl Mill. The move transformed what had been part of a tourist-oriented woodworking business into a company centered on the bowl-making process Fuller had developed decades earlier. In 2001, Holland Bowl Mill moved to its current James Street location and expanded production with custom hydraulic lathes. Kory Gier took over as fourth-generation owner in 2017, and his sister, Krista Chalifour, joined the company in 2019. That same year, the mill began offering free factory tours and opened a retail store, giving visitors a chance to see the manufacturing process firsthand. Today, the bowls have traveled considerably farther than their West Michigan beginnings. Holland Bowl Mill has built partnerships with retailers including Quince, Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel. The company says revenue has grown from $700,000 in 2016 to $4 million, while some employees have been with the company for more than 20 years. That may be the most satisfying part of the 120-year story: a distinctly Michigan manufacturing idea didn't just survive. It found a way to remain relevant. "In a world where many products are becoming increasingly more based on trends, there's something special about staying true to a time-tested process. Quality, care, and tradition have always been at the heart of what we do, and we're proud to be preserving this craft and sharing it with future generations," said third-generation owner Dave Gier. Kory Gier sees the anniversary in similarly human terms. "This milestone is a testament to generations of hard work and the belief that a simple idea can grow into something lasting with the right team behind it," he said. "We're proud of our history, grateful for those who have helped shape it, and excited to continue building on that legacy for years to come." Holland Bowl Mill will celebrate its 120th anniversary Saturday, Sept. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The celebration will include live bowl turning, a tent sale with select products up to 50 percent off, raffles, food and refreshments, live music and kids' activities, including 7-inch bowl finishing and engraving for $15. The company also will offer exclusive "120 years" bowls signed by Dave Gier. Discover more Food drink guide City & Local Guides Local News
Quince, the San Francisco-based direct-to-consumer brand, has surpassed $2 billion in sales over the last 12 months. The company previously reported revenues of over $1 billion for 2025, with triple-digit annual growth since its 2018 founding. In March, Quince closed a $500 million series E funding round led by Iconiq, valuing the company at $10.1 billion. Investors included Baillie Gifford, Basis Set Ventures, DST Global, MarcyPen Capital Partners, Notable Capital, Wellington Management and WndrCo. Launched in 2019 with $50 cashmere jumpers, Quince has expanded to over 100 categories including apparel, home goods, jewellery and furniture. The company uses AI to predict weekly demand and adjusts production through manufacturer partnerships.
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Deckers Outdoor loses infringement lawsuit to Quince. June 15, 2026 Ugg brand owner Deckers Outdoor Corp. lost its lawsuit against Quince, with a jury deciding the design patent covering the Ultra Mini Boot is invalid. After a four-day trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the jury issued a verdict in Quince's favor on Monday, finding that Quince's Australian Shearling Mini Boot infringed US Patent No. D927,161, but that the claimed design was invalid. Because the patent was invalidated, Quince avoided all liability and financial damages. The jury reached the verdict after deliberating for over two hours. A juror noted to Bloomberg that the design drawings lacked adequate reproduction detail and featured strictly functional components like seams. Quince's counsel, Xinlin Li Morrow of Morrow Ni LLP, said the verdict "vindicated Quince's mission and consumer rights." The trial was seen as among the first tackling the legality of "dupes," or popular products that are advertised as low-cost equivalents to their brand-name counterparts. Quince, which specializes in dupes, says its mission is to "create products of equal or greater quality than the leading luxury brands at a much lower price." "This case was never about an ankle boot," Quince Head of Legal Joel Dion said in a statement. "It was about whether one company can claim ownership of a common, category-wide design and use the courts to push out anyone who competes with it." Deckers, which also owns Hoka and Teva, sued Quince in 2023 over allegedly copying its design patent covering the Ugg Classic Ultra Mini boot. Quince denied the allegations and argued the patent was invalid. Deckers had previously argued that Quince also violated its trademark rights. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin dismissed Deckers' trademark-related claims last year after finding the Ugg design was too generic for trademark protection. Image courtesy Ugg
Online retailer Quince said on Wednesday it has raised $500 million in a Series E funding round at a post-money valuation of $10.1 billion, signaling strong investor appetite for tech-enabled retail platforms benefitting from resilient spending by wealthy shoppers.