Senior Backend Engineer (Analytics/ AI Personalization)

Santa Monica, California, United States

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$175,000 – $200,000Compensation

Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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E-commerce, SaaS, Mobile ApplicationsIndustries

Requirements

Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with strong expertise in distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure. Required technical skills include Node.js, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code, CICD tools, and various database architectures such as Mongo, Postgres, BigQuery, and Bigtable is necessary. Familiarity with data processing frameworks like Apache Beam and dbt, along with system architecture design, application development, and cloud networking configuration, is also required. Experience with Gen AI frameworks, React, React Native, Next.js, or mobile development is a plus.

Responsibilities

The Senior Backend Engineer will design, build, and scale the infrastructure for analytics, segmentation, and personalization products, including powering AI/ML systems. This role involves architecting, building, and maintaining data infrastructure systems, as well as building and deploying new microservices in a cloud environment to ensure scalability and reliability. The engineer will optimize cloud infrastructure for cost and performance, implement enterprise-grade security best practices, and drive architectural decisions in collaboration with cloud technology partners. Responsibilities also include defining API schemas, managing change over time, and ensuring the data platform remains efficient and secure while complying with global regulations.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Distributed Systems

Database Architectures

Data Processing

Analytics

AI Personalization

Segmentation

Infrastructure

Agile

Customer Value

Code Quality

Best Practices

Tapcart

Mobile ecommerce platform for custom apps

About Tapcart

Tapcart provides a mobile ecommerce platform that allows brands to create personalized mobile apps without needing any coding skills. The platform includes a user-friendly drag-and-drop design tool, enabling businesses to customize their apps to fit their brand's needs. Tapcart focuses on helping online retailers enhance their mobile presence and increase sales through features like interactive push notifications and real-time communication with customers. Unlike many competitors, Tapcart specifically targets small to medium-sized online retailers, offering a subscription-based model with tiered pricing plans that cater to different levels of features and integrations. The company's goal is to improve customer engagement and streamline the mobile shopping experience, providing fast checkout processes and real-time analytics to help retailers understand their performance.

Santa Monica, CaliforniaHeadquarters

2017Year Founded

$67.3MTotal Funding

SERIES_BCompany Stage

Consumer Software, Consumer GoodsIndustries

51-200Employees