Senior Backend Engineer

Tilt; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to revolutionize the shopping experience. Join a dynamic team dedicated to creating scalable and efficient backend solutions using cutting-edge technologies. You'll work closely with talented engineers and designers to develop intuitive solutions that enhance seller experiences. This role offers the chance to contribute to exciting projects involving e-commerce integrations and AI-driven tools. If you're a problem-solver with a passion for technology and a desire to make a real impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Stock Options

MacBook Pro + Tech Budget

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and deploying scalable applications and APIs.
• Strong knowledge of NodeJS ecosystem and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build solutions.
• Ensure quality and scalability of backend solutions.

Skills

NodeJS

Typescript

Javascript

Postgres

AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS)

Terraform

CloudFormation

VueJS

React

GraphQL

Tools

NPM

Express

Webpack

Job description

Tilt

Our mission is to make fashion accessible to all and inspire everyone to dress a little better. We believe e-commerce is in a rut, with brands lost in a decades-long void, lacking innovation, and mindlessly redesigning websites without fixing the real issue — making shopping fun and affordable.

Today, we are the UK's biggest live shopping platform focused on making shopping a joyful, social experience that brings people together and helps everyone level up their style. We're growing fast and hiring innovative problem solvers to build the future of shopping.

Your Mission ????

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Seller Experience team. The Seller Experience team works on all things seller-related. This involves projects ranging from new selling mechanics, shipping integrations, e-commerce integrations, and AI-driven tools. You will work closely with an autonomous squad of engineers, designers, and product owners to rapidly innovate and ship exponential improvements to the seller experience.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team, end-to-end, from designing to building, releasing and iterating

• Develop intuitive solutions to interesting problems

• Ensure quality, maintainability, stability and scalability of backend solutions

• Build and ship fast

Requirements

You must be an ambitious, curious, relentless and no ego problem-solver excited to build the future of shopping. Additionally:

• Experienced with developing, running, and deploying highly scalable and available applications and APIs in production

• Strong knowledge of:

  • NodeJS ecosystem such as Typescript, Javascript, NPM, Express and Webpack

  • Relational databases like Postgres

  • AWS ecosystem, specifically ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, etc.

  • Infra as code, such as Terraform and CloudFormation

• Outstanding ability to communicate technical problems

• Ability to work autonomously to deliver results at a rapid pace

• Bonus:

  • Experienced with Javascript based Front-End Technologies such as VueJS and React

  • Experienced with the NestJS framework

  • Experienced with creating APIs using GraphQL

  • Experienced with AWS Typescript CDK

  • Experienced with Document DBs such as MongoDB and DynamoDB

  • Experienced with AWS Data Pipelines such as AWS Glue and SageMaker

Bonus Experience

• NestJS framework

• Creating APIs using GraphQL

• AWS Typescript CDK

• MongoDB, DynamoDB and other document DBs

• AWS Data Pipelines like Glue, DMS, SageMaker

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Salary

• Stock Options

• MacBook Pro + Tech Budget

Want to join?

Apply with your CV and provide authentic answers to the questions in the application form.