Full-Time
Principal Software Engineer
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Favor
1,001-5,000 employees
On-demand delivery service connecting local businesses
Expert
Austin, TX, USA
This is a hybrid role, meaning you’ll work from home roughly three days per week and collaborate with other team members in person at our HQ in Austin, Texas for the remaining work days.
You match the following Favor's candidate preferences
Employers are more likely to interview you if you match these preferences:
- A relevant degree or equivalent work experience with 15+ years in software engineering.
- Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional initiatives, collaborating effectively with product, design, and engineering teams.
- Strong technical influence shapes engineering direction, defines quality standards, and drives best practices to ensure engineering excellence.
- Deep expertise in software design patterns, enabling the development of clean, well-structured, and idiomatic code that fully leverages modern programming language.
- Ability to architect and write scalable, efficient solutions using advanced algorithms and data structures, optimizing for various technical and business constraints.
- Expertise in test automation, observability, and debugging strategies to ensure software reliability and maintainability.
- Strong understanding of data engineering principles, ensuring effective data processing, storage, and scalability.
- Strong knowledge of security best practices, proactively addressing vulnerabilities and designing secure systems.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive problems from conception to resolution, and advocate for solutions with a strong sense of ownership.
- Ability to communicate difficult technical concepts in precise, concise, and unambiguous terms.
- Champion best practices and scalable architectural patterns, enabling engineers to drive adoption across the org for a maintainable and reliable codebase.
- Lead and drive large-scale technical initiatives, balancing short-term practical needs with long-term architectural vision while securing buy-in from engineers and leadership.
- Eliminate barriers to scale through technology and process and provide building blocks of world-class applications and services.
- Influence across disciplines, cross-functional teams, and leadership, effectively bridging technical and business considerations.
- Serve as a mentor and technical leader, fostering growth in engineers and raising the overall technical bar through coaching and shared expertise.
- Appreciate simple design.
- Enjoy implementing robust engineering strategies, including best logging, tracing, and troubleshooting practices to improve observability and reliability.
- Will take ownership during critical incidents, working with on-call teams to diagnose and resolve complex production issues swiftly and effectively.
- A proven leader who identifies areas needing engineering direction and sees them through to impactful solutions.
- Can write clean, well-tested code in your sleep, with a test-first mindset.
- Very well-versed in Domain Driven Design.
- Enjoy working with other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.
- Communicate well with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience or familiarity with one or more of the following technologies: JVM-based languages, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, NoSQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch.
Favor Delivery operates in the on-demand delivery market, primarily in Texas, providing a service that delivers a variety of products, including food, beverages, and everyday essentials, directly to customers' homes. The service works by partnering with local businesses such as restaurants and retail stores, allowing customers to choose from a diverse selection of items that can be delivered quickly. Favor Delivery stands out from competitors like DoorDash and Uber Eats by focusing on hyper-local markets and building strong relationships with local businesses, as well as actively supporting community initiatives that resonate with socially conscious consumers. The company's goal is to offer convenience to busy individuals and families while promoting local businesses and community engagement. Favor generates revenue through delivery fees charged to customers and service fees from partner businesses, along with potential earnings from promotional partnerships.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$34M
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Founded
2013
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Favor's H-E-B Now feature offers fast grocery delivery with no fees on orders over $25.
- The company's community support initiatives strengthen its brand loyalty among Texans.
- Favor's Order-In Experts program enhances customer engagement and local cuisine discovery.
What critics are saying
- Increased competition from DoorDash and Uber Eats threatens Favor's market share in Texas.
- Rising operational costs, including fuel and labor, may impact Favor's profitability.
- Dependence on H-E-B poses a risk if partnership dynamics change or H-E-B develops its own platform.
What makes Favor unique
- Favor focuses on hyper-local markets within Texas, fostering strong local business relationships.
- The company actively supports community initiatives, resonating with socially conscious consumers.
- Favor's exclusive partnership with H-E-B enhances its grocery delivery offerings.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Vacation
Professional Development Budget
Flexible Work Hours
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
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↑ 3%2024 report highlights the Lone Star State's most memorable delivery moments and cravingsAUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Favor, the only on-demand delivery app by and for Texans, today released its second annual How Texas Orders In Report, showcasing the trends, tastes and memorable orders that defined the year in delivery across the Lone Star State. From top dishes, dips and drinks to the most heartwarming and hilarious delivery notes, the 2024 report shares how Texans relied on delivery to make the most of every moment this year.What filled Texans' plates:
New campaign from AOR Preacher humorously touts the overabundance of items now available through FavorAUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Favor Delivery , the only on-demand delivery app by and for Texans, today announced the launch of H-E-B Now , a new grocery product offering in partnership with its parent company and beloved Texas grocery retailer, H-E-B. Available today exclusively in the Favor app, H-E-B Now offers a fast and convenient solution for busy individuals and families to take care of their last-minute grocery needs.Perfect for quick grocery shop needs, Favor customers can use H-E-B Now’s search feature to find their favorite items, as well as browse popular categories across fruit and vegetables, milk and eggs, pantry, deli and prepared food, meat and seafood, everyday essentials, health and beauty and more.Whether it is a forgotten recipe item or a midweek restock on produce and pantry staples, Favor customers can get up to 15 items delivered in 45 minutes or less through H-E-B Now – and with no delivery or service fees on orders over $25 now through the end of the year. Texans can shop H-E-B Now in the Favor app's new "H-E-B" tab, along with all of their other H-E-B favorites, including H-E-B Beer & Wine, Blooms by H-E-B, H-E-B Sushiya, True Texas BBQ and more. The exclusive offering marks the latest in the brand's push to continue proving its mantra that Favor is "How Texas Orders In."To introduce H-E-B Now, as well as highlight all that the Favor app has to offer – from restaurants of every cuisine to groceries, flowers, alcohol and more – the brand is launching a campaign called "All in Favor" created in partnership with agency of record, Preacher. Playful ads feature a fast-talking Texan who shows up amid everyday moments — watching the big game in the living room, hitting the pickleball courts, swinging at the playground — to let customers know, in just 30 seconds, the abundance of items that can be ordered through the app.The campaign, which will run throughout the state of Texas on connected and linear broadcast TV, as well as digital media and social media platforms, closes with the reminder of all that Favor delivers, "All your local restaurants
Favor Delivery, the only on-demand delivery app by and for Texans, today announced the launch of H-E-B Now, a new grocery product offering in partnership with its parent company and beloved Texas grocery retailer, H-E-B.
To introduce H-E-B Now and highlight everything the Favor app has to offer, Favor Delivery once again teamed up with Austin creative agency Preacher to launch the new campaign, titled "All in Favor."
$50,000 giving campaign to help fight summer hunger across Texas; Favor to donate 10 meals to Feeding Texas for every delivery completed now through July 31, 2024AUSTIN, Texas, June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Favor Delivery, the only delivery app by and for Texans, today announced a giving campaign to donate up to 200,000 meals to Feeding Texas , the state's largest hunger-relief organization. Now through July 31, Favor will donate the equivalent of 10 meals to Feeding Texas for every delivery completed, giving customers an easy way to help fight summer hunger in Texas every time they use Favor. Feeding Texas consists of a network of 20 local member food banks across the state – with $2.50 equaling the cost of 10 meals for those in need, the total donation could amount to up to $50,000.25% of Texas children experience hunger — higher than the national average. Favor's summer meals campaign with Feeding Texas will help serve the millions of Texas children who experience food insecurity with no access to free or reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches during the summer when school is out."Feeding Texas is thrilled to partner with Favor to support our fight against summer hunger and ensure Texas kids have access to food year-round," said Celia Cole, CEO of Feeding Texas, the state association of food banks. "We know that here in Texas, hunger doesn't take a summer vacation. While summer should be a time of joy and relaxation for kids, it can also mean up to 90 days without reliable school meals that many kids depend on to thrive