What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer position at Furniture.com?
About the company
Furniture.com is a high growth consumer tech start up that is addressing fundamental challenges in the $200B US furniture space. The company is a B2B and B2C digital aggregator with a simple mission: To make finding furniture easy.
For consumers, we make it easy to find the right furniture by enhancing search and streamlining the end-to-end customer experience. For retail partners, we deliver a digital platform allowing them to expand their reach with a high-intent, high value furniture audience.
Furniture.com is growing fast. Our team is comprised of furniture experts (obviously) as well as world-class technologists and brand builders. We come from a variety of walks of life and can be found either in Atlanta or in NYC. We are backed by the investment arm of one of America’s largest furniture retailers, although we are independent and proudly building technology in service of the furniture industry and furniture shoppers.
We are looking for Senior Backend Engineer who will shape our marketplace by adding E-commerce capabilities for us to better service the consumer’s needs. In this role, you will be provided with an opportunity to build services from the ground up and integrate them with the marketplace website. This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking new engineering challenges to solve a complex business problem.
Responsibilities
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Furniture.com is a high growth consumer tech start up that is addressing fundamental challenges in the $200B US furniture space. The company is a B2B and B2C digital aggregator with a simple mission: To make finding furniture easy.
For consumers, we make it easy to find the right furniture by enhancing search and streamlining the end-to-end customer experience. For retail partners, we deliver a digital platform allowing them to expand their reach with a high-intent, high value furniture audience.
Furniture.com is growing fast. Our team is comprised of furniture experts (obviously) as well as world-class technologists and brand builders. We come from a variety of walks of life and can be found either in Atlanta or in NYC. We are backed by the investment arm of one of America’s largest furniture retailers, although we are independent and proudly building technology in service of the furniture industry and furniture shoppers.
We are looking for Senior Backend Engineer who will shape our marketplace by adding E-commerce capabilities for us to better service the consumer’s needs. In this role, you will be provided with an opportunity to build services from the ground up and integrate them with the marketplace website. This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking new engineering challenges to solve a complex business problem.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and iterate e-commerce functions to extend the offerings of the marketplace website on our ecommerce platform
- Serve as a specialist backend services and API engineer to build with 3rd party integration and our proprietary AI technologies
- Participate in architecture and code reviews to ensure code and designs conform to technical standards and business requirements
- Emphasizes on outcomes while demonstrating incremental updates for large projects
- Collaborate with peers in DevOps, Frontend engineering, Designers, and Product Management in Agile Scrum ceremonies
- Dissect large projects into granular Backlog user stories to support agility in Scrum sprints
- Drive continued Engineering excellence by helping establish code and architectural standards in collaboration with senior engineers
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 8 years of proven experience as a Backend Engineer developing middleware and/or messaging services
- 5 years of hands-on experience with TypeScript and js
- Current or prior experience with one or more compiled languages like Java, C#, Rust, Golang are highly desired
- Excellent understanding of REST and GraphQL design principles
- Develop optimized distributed database systems for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance
- Worked on advanced caching layers to reduce latency and improve application throughput
- Deep knowledge and experience engineering with Design Patterns and SOLID principles
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, SQS, RDS, S3, EC2, and API Gateway
- Prior experience developing an API ecosystem either REST and/or GraphQL is a must have
- Understands the use cases for RDBMS vs NoSQL databased technologies and when to adopt them in technical solutions
- Experienced with one or more of the following: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or similar tools
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting experience with audit logs and cloud telemetry
- Experience delivering in an Agile Scrum environment paired with releasing code to production early and often
- Experience measuring middleware and API load for resiliency and performance
- Experience with Commerce platform APIs (g. Shopify, CommerceTools, VTEX, BigCommerce) is required, but an exception will be made for highly experience and technically strong Backend engineers
- AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is a plus
- Working knowledge of Identity Providers, Single Sign-On/SAML integrations is a plus
- Frontend experience with React and TypeScript is a plus but not required
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform knowledge is a strong plus
- Experience with event-driven architectures
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
