Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Job summary

The Engineering team at Boo*** is responsible for developing and maintaining customer-facing features on our website and mobile applications as well as internal tools that support our fulfillment centers and other departments such as our Editorial, Customer Service, and Finance teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in…
• Developing high-quality, production code using Node.js.
• Utilizing TypeScript to ensure integrity of API contracts, store clean data, and future-proof projects for low-lift expansion while avoiding regressions.
• Modeling data in relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and evolving schemas safely against live production data.
• Designing and versioning REST APIs with clear, reliable contracts and consistent backward compatibility.
• Building and maintaining test suites rigorous enough to be trusted as a quality gate for production release.
• Prioritizing efficiency by optimizing SQL, minimizing DB trips, managing in-memory load, and utilizing third-party services such as Redis, Kafka, and SQS.
• About you…
• Solution-oriented: Enjoys tackling problems, breaking them down into pieces, and finding innovative ways to use ever-evolving

Responsibilities

• The Engineering team at Boo*** is responsible for developing and maintaining customer-facing features on our website and mobile applications as well as internal
• Own the end-to-end creation of features and

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