Senior AI Backend Engineer

## About the role At Locker, we have created a consumer shopping platform that revolutionizes the way consumers shop, and is democratizing curation and affiliate earning for the everyday consumer. Locker was named among the top 5 commerce startups and among the top 50 startups in 2024 by The Information. We are a seed stage startup, and have raised $3.5M in funding, with our seed round led by Wonder Ventures. Locker is seeking a senior backend engineer to join our team. In this role you will be responsible for delivering world-class UX to our user base, using your wide range of skills and expertise working in a product-driven organization. We are a remote team, mostly located in the Los Angeles area with occasional meetings on-site. ## Why join Locker's Engineering team? - Great team dynamics - we care more about whether someone is a good personality fit than whether they know every single area of our technical stack. - Great company culture - we love working with each other and we put in the time and effort to make Locker a great place to work. - Empathy-driven decision-making - we make decisions based on caring deeply about the customer experience. - Everyone has a voice - no matter your position in the company, your ideas will be respected and heard. - Strong technical drive - our team's tech experience is diverse, and we care deeply about the technical decisions we make. - Strong quality drive - we want to write the best code we've ever written, build the best products we've ever built, and have high standards for what we do. ## What you'll bring to the team: - A deep love of engineering. You care about the code you write and you have strong opinions about what makes good code (these don't need to be the same strong opinions as the rest of the team). - You're great to work with. Every colleague you have is excited to collaborate with you on a day to day basis. You'll help contribute to the company culture and make Locker a great place to work. - You're great to discuss solutions with. You're committed to finding the best answer for any problem, whether it was the idea you thought of first or not. You don't mind admitting you're wrong and have a healthy attitude to changing your mind. You value the expertise and input of others, and freely share yours. - You're light on your feet. You're comfortable working on an agile team at a small start-up, and you understand that priorities change and sometimes hours run late. You're adaptable and you don't mind jumping in when someone else on the team needs help. - You're excited about our mission. You love the idea of shaping the future of commerce, and the democratization of the creator economy. ## What you'll do: - Work on our Agile team to ship high-quality releases fast and often. - Play a critical role in maintaining and developing our backend API service. - Help plan, design, implement and maintain features ## Our tech stack: - Node.js - Next.js - Vercel - Express - GraphQL - Postgres - React Native - GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, BigQuery)