Lead Backend Engineer

Job Description

Mission

At TILT, we're pioneering the future of online shopping. For far too long, the retail experience has been tumbling mindlessly down a path of copy-paste websites, spammy offers, and impersonal checkouts. We're changing that by creating a fresh, interactive, fun way to shop through live streams.

Culture

• Experimental and obsessed with building the best shopping experience in the world.

• Seriously fast-paced and challenging.

• Extremely ambitious, friendly and want to win together.

• You will be proud of your work for years to come.

• Meritocracy, hard work and high impact are rewarded.

What You'll Do

The Lead Backend Engineer will play a pivotal role in our ambitious mission to create the world's best shopping experience. Some of your responsibilities will be to:

• Own our backend

• Implement highly-available systems that scale to millions of users

• Provide technical leadership to the backend team and others

• Design and build new features.

• Communicate challenges to technical and non-technical team members.

Requirements

• Experience working in a seriously fast-paced start-up (prefer early stage)

• Know what it takes to be the best

• Experience with real-time, scalable, and distributed mobile APIs

• Must have:

  • AWS

  • Node.js

  • PostgreSQL

• Nice to have:

  • ElasticSearch/OpenSearch

  • NestJS

  • Terraform

• Note: You must be in London, UK, for this role. We are not sponsoring visas at the moment.

Perks & Benefits

• Stock options - we share in our growth

• Remote team (hybrid work soon)

• MacBook Pro, display & accessories

• Competitive salary