Senior Backend Engineer

Your role:

Reports to: Engineering Lead

• The Senior Backend Engineer builds and extends Tushop's backend architecture to support new launches, new features, and a fast-growing user base. As a technologist and a leader, the Senior Backend Engineer pushes the team toward building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant e-commerce platform. The Senior Backend Engineer follows and improves upon Tushop's engineering processes and standards while advancing Tushop's mission and business objectives. This is a technical leadership role within Tushops technical track. You will report to the Engineering Lead and collaborate cross-functionally with all Tushop teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement features aligned with the Product roadmap.
• Conduct thorough design document reviews, perform code reviews, and provide input on implementation decisions made by other technical teams. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Procurement, and Finance) to deliver scalable software solutions.
• Continuously enhance our codebase with clean and efficient code while applying the most suitable technologies to solve challenges.
• Strengthen the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules. 
• Elevate monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to enable proactive improvements in availability and response times. 
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Backend and Frontend Engineers to build/extend complex modules, including remote team members.

The profile we're likely to hire:

• Possesses a minimum of 4+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Ideally 4+ years of coding experience in NodeJS
• Demonstrates a track record of developing and launching large-scale consumer applications on Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure)
• Holds expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web applications
• Exhibits mastery in Agile development processes
• Excels in prioritization and communication within a fast paced environment
• Brings strong expertise in both relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL) and non-relational databases (Firebase, MongoDB)
• Previous experience at a tech startup is a valuable plus.