Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (US, Canada, SF)
Short Storyover 1 year ago
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build internal and customer-facing services for processing customer orders.
- Establish design patterns and guidelines for backend workloads.
- Create user experiences and improve warehouse, logistics, and data insight systems.
- Apply backend and API testing patterns and contribute to test suite creation and automation.
- Collaborate with a distributed engineering team and potentially manage an engineering team of three or more people.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- 2+ years of Python experience.
- Familiarity with a Python web framework, testing frameworks such as PyTest, a cloud provider such as AWS, containerized workloads such as Kubernetes, relational databases such as Postgres, and SQL.
- Familiarity with infrastructure, CI/CD practices, common API testing patterns, and backend testing patterns.
- Strong communication and documentation focus.
- Preferred qualifications include remote international collaboration, test automation, queue or event-driven systems, sprint-based environments, OKR frameworks, and engineering team management.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off.
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental care.
- 401k with company match for US employees.
- San Francisco office or remote work in the US or Canada.
- Employee discount on merchandise.
- Opportunity to work at a Y-Combinator-backed startup with its founding team.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Short Story
Short Story is the premiere personal styling service for petite women 5’4” and under. The industry forgot about petites. We didn’t. We’re an award-winning, tech-powered retailer on a mission to deliver standout style, perfect fits, and magical moments of discovery without endless try-ons or hemming drama. Powered by data and rapid feedback loops, built with heart, and curated by humans, we’re flipping retail on its head. We move fast, test relentlessly, and build with empathy—obsessing over fit, quality, and what customers actually want. We’re not just selling clothes—we’re engineering a better retail model. At Short Story, fit isn’t an afterthought. It’s the whole story.