Senior Backend Software Engineer

GOAT; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fashion marketplace is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join their team. In this role, you will work on complex problems and help shape the technical vision, collaborating with product managers and other engineers. Responsibilities include extending the API, maintaining backend systems, mentoring team members, and solving architectural challenges. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in backend engineering, proficient in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Competitive compensation offered.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience building and maintaining production web applications.
• Knowledge of API and database design.

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers and designers to build features.
• Extend API and backend systems.
• Coordinate with other technical and product teams.

Skills

API design

Database design

Server-side technologies

PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, to solve complex problems gracefully, grow scalable systems, and help to shape our technical vision. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll take an active role in breaking down projects into tasks, as well as the implementation methods used. We are solving a wide range of technical challenges as we power a leading fashion marketplace.

This is an opportunity to join a team of smart, thoughtful engineers with a clean, robust tech stack. We are organized into cross-functional squads, where you’ll get to use some skills you already know, learn new ones, and help take the team to the next level. We are community driven, and supporting our sellers is critical as our marketplace continues to grow and thrive.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
• Extend our API and back-end systems
• Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster
• Add to and improve our testing environment
• Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti-fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more
• Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes
• Keep up with the latest development trends in server-side technologies
• Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
• Be part of an on‑call rotation
• Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows

Qualifications

• 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications.
• Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services.
• Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning.
• Professional experience with the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS).

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