Senior Backend Engineer - Build Scalable Systems (Remote)

Short Story; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Paid Time Off

Comprehensive health, vision, and...</

401k with company match (US)

Employee discount on merchandise

Job summary

Short Story is an award-winning, tech-powered retailer focused on petite women. We are building a data-driven platform to power orders, inventory, logistics, and fit, enabling faster iteration and better experiences.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and implement services that handle core workflows from order processing to logistics and internal operations, driving reliability and scalability. You will own meaningful components end-to-end, collaborate with product, frontend, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience and 2+ years of Python.
• 5+ years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• Familiar with infrastructure, monitoring, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience designing stable, scalable APIs.
• Strong focus on communication and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services powering core business workflows.
• Own projects end-to-end, from early design through production and iteration.
• Design APIs and data models that are clear, stable, and easy to work with.
• Work across systems (orders, inventory, logistics, data) to solve complex, interconnected problems.
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and maintainability.
• Improve system reliability through monitoring, testing, and debugging.
• Contribute to engineering standards, code reviews, and documentation.

Skills

Python

Data structures & algorithms

CI/CD

APIs design

Documentation

Communication

Tools

CI/CD tooling

API documentation

Job description

Short Story is an award-winning, tech-powered retailer focused on petite women. We are building a data-driven platform to power orders, inventory, logistics, and fit, enabling faster iteration and better experiences.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and implement services that handle core workflows from order processing to logistics and internal operations, driving reliability and scalability. You will own meaningful components end-to-end, collaborate with product, frontend, and