Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

About Us 🌎
We're on a mission to make the fight against climate change easy, accessible, and affordable for everyone!EcoCart is the #1 solution for sustainable e-commerce, with products that allow online shoppers and businesses to make their orders carbon neutral with a single click. We are backed by top VCs, executives from Facebook, Affirm, & Klaviyo, and by top-tier e-commerce founders of Chubbies, Blue Bottle Coffee, BarkBox, & Felix Gray.
We are a Series A-stage startup based in San Francisco, CA looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is motivated by building products that will help change the world. We’re growing quickly, and want you to grow with us!
Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000Check out our tech stack on StackShare: https://stackshare.io/ecocart-io/ecocart-io
Our ideal candidate 🤩
A self-starter who enjoys working in a collaborative, dynamic environment, who shares our customer obsession and strives to deliver the most delightful customer experience.Someone who is highly detail oriented, has a data-driven decision making process, and most importantly, gets excited by the opportunity to make an outsized impact by building creative products that are helping save the world!

In this role you will be 💻

• A lead engineer at EcoCart, responsible for managing, coaching, and supporting our engineering team of 3 (and growing)
• Building out features/functionality of our carbon footprint calculation API, documentation, and onboarding new partners onto our API
• Implementing security and data protection, as well as data storage solutions such as s3, dynamo db or MySQL
• Putting together best-practice processes for the entire team that enable us to scale fast, but thoughtfully
• Bringing a level of technical expertise, guidance, and strategic decision-making to key areas of EcoCart including web infrastructure, microservices architecture, machine learning and its orchestration, data pipelines, devops, CI/CD, and internal tools
• Working collaboratively and directly with the Founders (CEO and COO), Director of Engineering, and Head of Product on strategizing and executing product roadmap

We are looking for 🔍

• 5+ years of full stack development experience in a startup environment
• A scrappy, action-biased, data-driven individual that can build processes to leverage the teams’ superpowers
• Someone who can take ownership and solve complex problems quickly and efficiently
• Deep web server knowledge (including building load balancers), specifically working with nginx, apache, Django and Flask
• Experience with scalable transactional web applications
• Experience designing relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, Maria DB, MySQL, AWS S3, and Dgraph)
• Experience with Cloud (AWS) and without (either on-prem or a more bare-bones provider like DigitalOcean)
• Ideally some data migration experience in SQL
• Ability to Dockerize and deploy GatsbyJS, Python, and PHP applications.
• Experience with Python testing frameworks, specifically PyTest
• Experience with Jinja, Flask, Peewee, and Fast API
• Excellent understanding of Internet security & privacy mechanisms

Bonus points 🚀

• Experience working with Shopify
• Experience with PyTorch, or at least another major deep learning framework such as TensorFlow, MXNet.
• Some experience with data science tools including Python scripting, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, jupyter notebooks, bash scripting, Linux environment.
• Experience with PHP, specifically work with symfony applications
• Past experience building out large scale APIs and developing their infrastructure is a huge bonus!

Benefits 🎉
-Series A Equity-Unlimited PTO-Flexible hours -Remote-first environment-Best-of-the-best options for medical, dental, & vision insurance-401(k)-Mental health benefits-Life insurance-Proactive, collaborative company culture with a shared vision for climate impact!-Carbon neutral life-Summer Fridays - Enjoy a half day every Friday during the summer!