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.