Senior Software Engineer

Tapcart is the ultimate mobile commerce platform fueling the fastest growing brands. We power mobile apps for over 50 million consumers worldwide, processing over $6 billion in mobile commerce revenue.

Almost all ecommerce traffic comes from a mobile device; we turn these users into high retention growth for some of the largest brands, including BÉIS, Princess Polly, gorjana, LSKD, BYLT Basics, and many more. Tapcart is trusted by thousands of brands to power their mobile experience by building mobile apps in hours (not months).

As a Senior Engineer at Tapcart you will contribute to our Platform Engineering team by developing innovative, customer-facing products as well as SDKs and APIs for our growing mobile app authoring platform. This role is perfect for an ambitious candidate interested in working on a wide variety of projects with a small team. You will have the opportunity to work in a cloud full-stack role, with a strong emphasis on backend and cloud technologies. We are looking for candidates with a proven track record designing, building, and launching production software with a focus on resilience, performance, and extensibility in the ecommerce space.

The ideal candidate is passionate about the latest cutting-edge technologies, is experienced with iterative development, is a good communicator, and is a strong creative collaborator. Presented with a problem space this person can translate business and functional requirements into live production-ready stacks. This person will help shape the next generation of products at Tapcart - building marketing tools, developer tools, generative AI tools, and more - as part of a cross-functional team.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Build and deploy new microservices in a cloud environment
• Architect and review the design for cutting-edge services using the latest tools in close collaboration with our cloud technology partners
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost and performance
• Protect customer and shopper data with enterprise-grade security best-practices and global regulatory compliance

WHAT SKILLS YOU’LL NEED

• 5-7 years experience in software engineering
• Expertise with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Ability to architect software solutions and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
• Proven experience defining API schemas and managing change over time
• Experience in system architecture design, application development, and DevOps
• Experience with technologies such as Node.js, Typescript, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CICD tools for provisioning cloud infrastructure and deploying software
• Expertise with cloud-based solutions such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience working with NoSQL and SQL databases
• Nice-to-haves: Experience with React, React Native, Next.js, CSS and CSS preprocessors, and/or Mobile development