Senior Software Engineer, Back-End

🕒 May 21

🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Short Story

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

👥 B2C

Fashion • Retail • B2C

Short Story is a premier personal styling service for petite women, dedicated to providing perfectly fitting clothes for those 5'4" and under. It offers a personalized shopping experience where customers receive a curated selection of styles designed to flatter petite frames. The service aims to solve the challenges petite women face with regular-sized clothing by offering trendy, high-quality brands that cater specifically to their proportions. With an emphasis on empowering petite women, Short Story removes the hassle from shopping, allowing customers to dress with confidence and style.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core business workflows • Own projects end-to-end, from early design through production and iteration • Design APIs and data models that are clear, stable, and easy to work with • Work across systems (orders, inventory, logistics, data) to solve complex, interconnected problems • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and maintainability • Improve system reliability through monitoring, testing, and debugging • Contribute to engineering standards, code reviews, and documentation

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience, 2+ Years of Python experience • 5+ years of experience with data structures and algorithms • Familiar with infrastructure, monitoring, and CI/CD practices • Familiar with the following technologies: • - A Python web framework • - Testing frameworks • - Containerized workloads (Docker) • - Relational database (Postgres preferred) and SQL • Focus on communication and documentation • Experience designing stable, scalable, and well-documented APIs

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental care • 401k with company match (US) • Employee discount on merchandise • Opportunity to work at a Y-Combinator backed startup with a dedicated and experienced founding team