Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Furniture.com – Atlanta, Ga    

WHO WE ARE   

Furniture.com is building the most intelligent furniture shopping platform on the planet. We don’t sell furniture. We help people find it better. We are a technology company in the service of furniture. A creative industry, with a consumer base that really cares about the decisions they make.    

With over 2 million products from 60+ trusted brands, our AI-powered search platform connects shoppers with the right pieces—based on style, space, budget, and intent—without the 15-tab madness of traditional furniture search, discovery and shopping.   

ABOUT THE ROLE   

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will shape our marketplace by adding E-Commerce capabilities tobetter serve the furniture consumer. In this role you will be provided with an opportunity to build services from the ground up and integrate them with the marketplace website. This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking new engineering challenges to solve a complex business problem. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design, develop, and iterate e-commerce functions to extend the offerings of the marketplace website on our ecommerce platform
• Serve as a specialist backend services and API engineer to build with 3rd party integration and our proprietary AI technologies
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to ensure code and designs conform to technical standards and business requirements
• Emphasizes on outcomes while demonstrating incremental updates for large projects
• Collaborate with peers in DevOps, Frontend engineering, Designers, and Product Management in Agile Scrum ceremonies
• Dissect large projects into granular Backlog user stories to support agility in Scrum sprints
• Drive continued Engineering excellence by helping establish code and architectural standards in collaboration with senior engineers
• Experiment with and evaluate emerging AI tools, providing feedback and sharing insights with the engineering team.

WHO YOU ARE 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field 
• 8+ years of proven experience as a Backend Engineer developing middleware and/or messaging services
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with TypeScript and js 
• Current or prior experience with one or more compiled languages like Java, C#, Rust, Golang are highly desired
• Excellent understanding of REST and GraphQL design principles
• Develop optimized distributed database systems for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance
• Worked on advanced caching layers to reduce latency and improve application throughput
• Deep knowledge and experience engineering with Design Patterns and SOLID principles 
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, SQS, RDS, S3, EC2, and API Gateway
• Prior experience developing an API ecosystem either REST and/or GraphQL is a must have
• Understands the use cases for RDBMS vs NoSQL databased technologies and when to adopt them in technical solutions
• Experienced with one or more of the following: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or similar tools
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting experience with audit logs and cloud telemetry
• Experience delivering in an Agile Scrum environment paired with releasing code to production early and often
• Experience measuring middleware and API load for resiliency and performance
• Experience with Commerce platform APIs (g. Shopify, CommerceTools, VTEX, BigCommerce) is required, but an exception will be made for highly experience and technically strong backend engineers
• Familiarity with modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub, Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT) to accelerate code generation, documentation and refactoring.  
• Experience using AI-powered debugging and testing tools to identify and resolve issues faster.    
• Comfortable with prompt engineering practices to fine-tune interactions with AI assistants and agents to enhance the product and team efficiency.    

Nice to Have Skills 

• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is a plus 
• Working knowledge of Identity Providers, Single Sign-On/SAML integrations is a plus 
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript is a plus but not required 
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform knowledge is a strong plus 
• Experience with event-driven architectures 

This company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual based on race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age and any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws. 

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.