Senior Backend Engineer

Tilt

Our mission is to make fashion accessible to all and inspire everyone to dress a little better. We believe e-commerce is in a rut, with brands lost in a decades-long void, lacking innovation, and mindlessly redesigning websites without fixing the real issue — making shopping fun and affordable.

Today, we are the UK's biggest live shopping platform focused on making shopping a joyful, social experience that brings people together and helps everyone level up their style. We're growing fast and hiring innovative problem solvers to build the future of shopping.

Your Mission

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Seller Experience team. The Seller Experience team works on all things seller-related. This involves projects ranging from new selling mechanics, shipping integrations, e-commerce integrations, and AI-driven tools. You will work closely with an autonomous squad of engineers, designers, and product owners to rapidly innovate and ship exponential improvements to the seller experience.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team, end-to-end, from designing to building, releasing and iterating
• Develop intuitive solutions to interesting problems
• Ensure quality, maintainability, stability and scalability of backend solutions
• Build and ship fast
  
  

Requirements

You must be an ambitious, curious, relentless and no ego problem-solver excited to build the future of shopping. Additionally:

• Experienced with developing, running, and deploying highly scalable and available applications and APIs in production
• Strong knowledge of:
• NodeJS ecosystem such as Typescript, Javascript, NPM, Express and Webpack
• Relational databases like Postgres
• AWS ecosystem, specifically ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, etc.
• Infra as code, such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Outstanding ability to communicate technical problems
• Ability to work autonomously to deliver results at a rapid pace
• Bonus:
• Experienced with Javascript based Front-End Technologies such as VueJS and React
• Experienced with the NestJS framework
• Experienced with creating APIs using GraphQL
• Experienced with AWS Typescript CDK
• Experienced with Document DBs such as MongoDB and DynamoDB
• Experienced with AWS Data Pipelines such as AWS Glue and SageMaker
  

Bonus Experience

• NestJS framework
• Creating APIs using GraphQL
• AWS Typescript CDK
• MongoDB, DynamoDB and other document DBs
• AWS Data Pipelines like Glue, DMS, SageMaker
  
  

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Stock Options
• MacBook Pro + Tech Budget
  
  

Want to join?

Apply with your CV and provide authentic answers to the questions in the application form.