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# Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack (US, Canada, SF)

- **Company:** Short Story
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Test Suite, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Software Design Patterns, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Web Application Frameworks, Event Driven Architecture, Pytest, Containerization, Kubernetes
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-73FA23A02B1EEBD0CB/

## About the Role

At Short Story, you will be a part of a high-velocity engineering team that creates new user experiences, optimizes warehouse and logistics operations, and improves data insights to better serve our customers. We are looking for self-motivated individuals who enjoy tackling ambiguity and can solve complex problems end-to-end., * 5+ years of software development experience, 2+ Years of Python experience

 * Familiar with infrastructure, CI/CD practices
 * Familiar with the following technologies:

 * A Python web framework
 * A testing framework (PyTest preferred)
 * A cloud provider (AWS preferred)
 * Containerized workloads (Kubernetes preferred)
 * Relational database (Postgres preferred) and SQL

Focus on communication and documentation

Familiar with common API and Back End testing patterns
Nice to Haves

 * Worked in a fully remote environment with colleagues from around the world
 * Test suite/pattern creation and automation experience
 * Managed an engineering team of 3+ people
 * Experience with queue/event-driven systems
 * Worked in sprint-based environments with an OKR framework

## Description

As an early Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will build internal and customer-facing services for processing customer orders and establish key design patterns/guidelines for all Back End workloads.


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