Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 June 5

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Lovevery

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

📚 Education

🛒 Retail

🧘 Wellness

💰 $100M Series C on 2021-05

Education • Retail • Wellness

Lovevery is a company that creates educational play kits designed by experts to support the developing brains of children. These play kits are intended for children ranging from 0 months to over 5 years old and include a variety of playthings and books aimed at stimulating fine motor skills and cognitive development. Lovevery's products emphasize safety, sustainability, and high-quality natural materials. The company also offers a research-backed play guide and app to provide additional resources for parents. With millions of play kits shipped and numerous positive reviews, Lovevery aims to make learning through play enjoyable and beneficial for young children.

📋 Description

• Architect, develop, and optimize the backend services and APIs that drive our global e-commerce and digital parent experiences. • Create scalable data models and systems designed to evolve in tandem with our product roadmap and an expanding global audience. • Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend teams to ship impactful features that support every stage of the customer journey. • Own the security, reliability, and performance of our backend stack, ensuring a seamless experience for millions of parents. • Guide technical direction by evaluating new vendors and platforms, weighing the benefits of internal builds versus third-party integrations. • Champion engineering excellence by refining technical standards, development workflows, and team-wide best practices. • Leverage AI coding tooling and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate development while maintaining a high quality bar and sound engineering judgment. • Iterate on our CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure to ensure consistent, high-velocity software delivery. • Foster a collaborative culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and a shared commitment to our mission.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. • 5-7 years of experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, or equivalent server-side programming languages, and some professional experience with JavaScript, Swift, Java/Kotlin, or other client-side programming languages (with a personal methodology to learn new languages) • Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails and SQL • Hands-on experience with AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure • Familiarity with caching, queuing, and search tools such as Redis, RabbitMQ, or Elasticsearch • Comfort with Docker, microservices, and containerized architectures • Experience writing automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines • Clear written and verbal communication; strong collaborator and self-starter. • Experience with NoSQL databases and data modeling for analytics or BI (Nice to Have) • Strong understanding of the strengths and limitations of AI-assisted software development, including when to rely on generated solutions and when deeper engineering analysis is required. (Nice to Have) • Background in consumer subscription or e-commerce platforms (Nice to Have) • JavaScript familiarity for occasional full-stack collaboration (Nice to Have) • Passion for early childhood development and empathy for parents as product users (Nice to Have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Lovevery is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all forms. All employment decisions at Lovevery are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.