Software Engineer, Back End

About you:

• You’re interested in early stage startup experience and growing a company culture
• Building a company from the ground up is an exciting challenge
• You’re able to balance software design, planning, and coding and manage your calendar
• You have an eye for detail and quality in product and people
• Your focus is on doing the right thing for your people, clients, and the world
• You’re excited about roadmapping for rapid growth and user count
• You’re happy working in an unstructured environment and excited to build future structure
• You flourish working independently and collaboratively in a startup environment
• You’re familiar with product life cycles and eager to build new designs

Your Toolkit

• Grounding in CS fundamentals - you have a broad based knowledge of all things back end
• 3+ Python experience
• PostgreSQL experience preferred
• Strong communication skills conversationally and via Slack
• Experience in a startup environment a plus
• We work on Heroku and AWS

Why Short Story:

• The opportunity to be involved in an early stage start-up and build the culture
• The opportunity to build a unique business from the ground up
• The opportunity to work on interesting problems around personalization
• You’re interested in supporting petite women better than ever before
• You relish the chance to own the development of internal tooling
• The opportunity to take a start-up from the starting line to success

Benefits and compensation:

• Attractive early stage compensation and equity package
• Compensation range: $150K-190K, based on experience level
• Unlimited vacation
• Medical and dental benefits
• Competitive startup compensation
• Opportunity to work with a dedicated and experienced founding team
• Opportunity to work at a Y-Combinator backed start-up

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