Software Engineer - Backend

Your Adventure Ahead

• You have consistently led and delivered large scale projects.
• Contribute to the ideation, technical design, implementation, and testing of product features
• Produce high quality software following good architecture and design principles that are scalable
• Design & deliver thoughtfully crafted clean APIs to drive the interactions between our client applications and backend services
• Collaborate with product, data and design to define the future of the ShopBack experience
• Comfortably lead and mentor other software engineers.
• Encourages others to follow engineering best practices.
• Analyze requirements well, come up with solutions, and explain trade-offs.

Essentials to Succeed

• At least 3 years of experience developing consumer facing web applications
• Proven experience designing complex distributed systems, management products or business applications
• Hands-on experience working with NodeJS (Preferred)
• Experience building and deploying applications and services into cloud environments (AWS highly desired)
• Strong experience leading design and implementation of robust and highly scalable web services
• Demonstrated use of Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude) to develop new or improve workflows, enhance productivity, and drive efficiency at scale
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, complex technical environment with high adaptability and flexibility

Technologies We Use & Love

• Cloud: AWS
• Infra: Kubernetes
• Programming languages: NodeJS / Typescript, Java, Kotlin, Python
• Relational database: Postgres
• Message queue: Kafka, SQS
• Continuous Integration: Gitlab / Jenkins
• Monitoring: Prometheus / DataDog
• Big Data: Redshift, Spark, S3, etc.
• Communication: Slack
• Project Management: JIRA / Confluence
• Other technologies:
• Knative Eventing / Serving
• Debezium + Kafka Connect