Backend Developer WW-FT

Role Overview

Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer and play a pivotal role in revolutionizing fashion discovery and commerce. You'll contribute to building a personalized platform that connects shoppers with unique brands while providing valuable insights to our retail partners. Collaborate closely with our founders to influence both product development and technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Stabilize and enhance product and inventory ingestion processes for both Shopify and non-Shopify brands.
• Improve scraper reliability, ensuring accurate product matching, category accuracy, pricing, availability, and link integrity.
• Develop and maintain automated workflows for brand onboarding, catalog synchronization, alerts, and operations.
• Enhance backend system reliability, optimize database performance, and implement robust access controls and security measures.
• Maintain search and recommendation systems utilizing Elasticsearch and embedding-based similarity.
• Ensure accurate end-to-end functionality for affiliate links, purchases, credits, and commerce attribution.
• Refine Amplitude event instrumentation to ensure trustworthy activation, retention, sharing, and purchase behavior data.
• Implement monitoring, smoke tests, failure recovery strategies, and comprehensive operational documentation.
• Collaborate directly with founders to prioritize impactful product and infrastructure tasks weekly.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in startup environments or small product teams.
• Proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript and a strong understanding of both frontend and backend systems.
• Experience with production React or React Native applications.
• Strong knowledge of relational data modeling, SQL, APIs, webhooks, authentication, and permissions.
• Ability to debug distributed workflows and third-party integrations using logs and data.
• Commitment to product quality, user experience, and handling edge cases.
• Excellent prioritization, communication skills, and ability to work with minimal process.
• Ownership mentality from problem definition through deployment and verification.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fashion, retail, marketplaces, ecommerce, or affiliate commerce.
• Familiarity with Shopify apps, Admin APIs, webhooks, billing, or merchant onboarding.
• Skills in web scraping, catalog ingestion, data normalization, and managing scheduled workers.
• Knowledge of search, recommendations, embeddings, or applied machine learning systems.
• Expertise in Supabase, PostgreSQL performance, and row-level security.
• Proficiency in Amplitude instrumentation, experiment analysis, and retention metrics.
• Experience with App Store and Google Play release workflows.