Senior Engineer - Shopper Backend
Core
Design, build, and deploy high-performance, multi-region backend services to empower shoppers nationwide.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (distributed systems)
Builds
Multi-region services, RESTful APIs, and data models for a retail delivery platform
Domain
Retail technology / Distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RESTful API design, distributed system architecture, performance/load testing, observability (logging/metrics), on-call incident management
Preferred skills
Snowflake, microservices, SOA, mentoring peers
Technologies
Go, Copilot Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Snowflake
Responsibilities
Design and deploy multi-region distributed architectures; optimize database queries and data models; lead complex technical challenges autonomously; mentor junior engineers; perform 24/7 on-call rotation for production issues
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC