At Short Story, you will be a part of a high-velocity engineering team that creates new user experiences, optimizes warehouse and logistics operations, and improves data insights to better serve our customers. We are looking for self-motivated individuals who enjoy tackling ambiguity and can solve complex problems end-to-end. 

The Role:

As an early Senior Backend Engineer, you will build internal and customer-facing services for processing customer orders and establish key design patterns/guidelines for all backend workloads.

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Must Haves

• 5+ years of software development experience, 2+ Years of Python experience

• Familiar with infrastructure, CI/CD practices

• Familiar with the following technologies:

  • A Python web framework 

  • A testing framework (PyTest preferred)

  • A cloud provider (AWS preferred)

  • Containerized workloads (Kubernetes preferred)

  • Relational database (Postgres preferred) and SQL 

• Focus on communication and documentation

• Familiar with common API and backend testing patterns

Nice to Haves

• Worked in a fully remote environment with colleagues from around the world

• Test suite/pattern creation and automation experience 

• Managed an engineering team of 3+ people

• Experience with queue / event-driven systems

• Worked in sprint-based environments with an OKR framework

Benefits and compensation:

• 4 weeks of vacation (20 days)

• Medical, vision, and dental benefits

• Fully remote work; SF and Toronto offices available

• Employee discount