Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (Remote Canada)

Short Story, Canada (remote)

The role

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.

The team

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.

What you will do

Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core business workflows
Own projects end-to-end, from early design through production and iteration
Design APIs and data models that are clear, stable, and easy to work with
Work across systems (orders, inventory, logistics, data) to solve complex, interconnected problems
Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and maintainability
Improve system reliability through monitoring, testing, and debugging
Contribute to engineering standards, code reviews, and documentation

What you need

5+ years of software development experience, 2+ Years of Python experience
5+ years of experience with data structures and algorithms
Familiar with infrastructure, monitoring, and CI/CD practices
Familiar with the following technologies:
A Python web framework
Testing frameworks
Containerized workloads (Docker)
Relational database (Postgres preferred) and SQL
Focus on communication and documentation
Experience designing stable, scalable, and well-documented APIs

Nice to have

Test-driven development (TDD) experience
Tech Lead for an engineering team of 3+ people
Proven track record running large-scale distributed systems
Worked in sprint-based environments