Senior Software Engineer

Join our Consumer team as a Senior Backend Engineer. In this high-impact role, you will own backend architecture and execution for our consumer-facing features. You will lead system design, optimize existing systems, and serve as the team's technical anchor. You should have a strong proficiency in backend languages, experience with high-traffic consumer applications, and a proactive ownership mentality.

• Lead backend architecture and system design, proactively proposing and driving new systems that support critical customer-facing features.
• Take point on initiatives, owning the backend roadmap, driving technical decisions, and coordinating cross-functional delivery.
• Optimize existing systems for performance, reliability, and cost, treating production health as a first-class priority.
• We need someone who doesn't wait to be told what to build, you see the opportunity, rally the team, and ship it
• Proficient with AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Codex, Copilot, etc.) and a believer in using them to multiply team output
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems that handle real-world traffic at scale
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• A T-shaped engineer / generalist mindset with deep expertise in at least one domain (e.g., API design, data pipelines, event-driven architectures, infrastructure)
• Proven track record of leading a team to execute and ship features, you've been the tech lead others rely on
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, Ruby, or similar backend languages/frameworks
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend / distributed systems
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, handling conflict constructively, and building consensus across teams with competing priorities
• A proactive ownership mentality, you don't wait for permission to improve things; you identify problems, propose solutions, and execute
• Experience with high-traffic consumer applications
• Familiarity with the technologies, tradeoffs, and design patterns emerging in modern web services and cloud-native architectures
• Frontend experience (React, TypeScript, iOS, Android or similar), we value engineers who can work across the stack when needed
• Experience with high-scale commerce events (flash sales, product drops, Black Friday)
• Familiarity with ecommerce applications