Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable E‑commerce & Logistics

Short Story; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health, vision & dental

401k with company match

Remote in US/Canada

Employee merchandise discount

Job summary

Short Story is a fast-growing, data-driven retailer focused on petite women. We’re building a data-powered backend that unifies orders, inventory, logistics, and personalization.

Join a driven engineering team shaping the future of ecommerce delivery and fit. The Senior Backend Engineer will own end-to-end backend services, collaborate with product, frontend, and operations, and help set engineering standards as we scale.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services powering core workflows.
• Own projects end-to-end from design to production.
• Design APIs and data models that are clear and stable.
• Work across systems (orders, inventory, logistics, data) to solve complex 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

Software development

Python

Algorithms

CI/CD

APIs

Documentation

Tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Short Story is a fast-growing, data-driven retailer focused on petite women. We’re building a data-powered backend that unifies orders, inventory, logistics, and personalization.

Join a driven engineering team shaping the future of ecommerce delivery and fit. The Senior Backend Engineer will own end-to-end backend services, collaborate with product, frontend, and operations, and help set engineering standards as we scale.