engineering
Posted Mar 24Staff Engineer, Full Stack (US, Canada, SF)
at Short Story
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- - Drive technical direction: influence architecture, make trade-offs, and establish engineering standards that balance speed and scalability.
- - Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and operations to deliver solutions end-to-end, from UI to backend services.
- experience and business outcomes. - Multiply team effectiveness: mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar. - Ensure quality and reliability: drive testing and automation across the stack (Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, integration tests). - Own deployment and operations: manage apps on Netlify, AWS, or equivalent, and build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. - Champion engineering culture: set standards around performance, security, accessibility, and technical excellence.
Requirements
- experience for millions of petite women so they can dress with effortless confidence.
- As a fast-growing startup, we're revolutionizing retail with a data driven learning system that leverages customer feedback to create tailored products.
- What You'll Do: - Design, build, and scale full-stack applications with technologies like Next.js, React Query, TailwindCSS, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
- - Translate Figma designs into seamless, interactive experiences while ensuring backend integrations are robust and performant.
- Must Haves: - You are passionate about improving the user
- experience and have built and launched high-quality user-facing products. - You’re fluent in TypeScript and CSS, and have extensive
- experience building scalable applications using NextJS and ReactJS - You have hands-on
- experience with React-Query, Tailwind CSS, and front-end tooling like Webpack and Yarn - You’ve worked in collaborative development environments using Git and GitHub - You’ve translated designs from Figma into elegant and accessible interfaces across multiple devices and browsers - You are able to establish testing practices and methodologies for the team - You understand how to optimize front-end performance and build for scalability - You’re thoughtful about documentation, communication, and team
- experience in professional front-end development -
- Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment -
- experience with server-side rendering (SSR) and static site generation (SSG) - Have worked on sprint-based teams using OKRs or similar frameworks - Have