Senior Software Engineer, Backend
What happens when your business model breaks the assumptions most e-commerce platforms were built on?
At Short Story, we’re rethinking how online shopping works: from inventory and logistics to personalization and fit, because the standard playbook doesn’t work for our customers. That means building systems that don’t fit neatly into existing patterns.
If you’re excited by designing systems from first principles and working on problems without obvious answers, you’ll feel at home here.
You’ll be part of a fast-moving engineering team building the systems that power our customer experience, warehouse operations, and data platform. We value engineers who take ownership, move quickly, and are comfortable figuring things out as they go.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design and build the services that power our core workflows, from order processing to logistics and internal operations.
You’ll own meaningful parts of the system end-to-end, making decisions about data models, APIs, and system behavior. You’ll work closely with product, frontend, and operations to ensure what we build is reliable, scalable, and actually solves the problem.