Senior Backend Software Engineer

An established name in online retail technology is expanding its product engineering team and wants someone who can move fluidly across the stack, from the services that power day-to-day transactions down into the data feeding them. This isn't a rebuild-from-scratch situation; it's a chance to shape how a platform that already serves a large customer footprint keeps evolving, using modern tooling (including AI-assisted coding) alongside solid engineering fundamentals. Senior Backend Engineer Location: Sacramento (Hybrid) Type: Full-time Salary: $150–180k (DOE) + Bonus and Benefits What the role involves Owning meaningful parts of a large-scale production system used by a substantial customer baseBuilding services and integrations that other teams and downstream systems depend onGetting hands-on with the data side (pipelines, storage, performance) and not just application codeSitting in on architecture and design conversations, and helping newer engineers grow Background that fits Several years (5+) as an engineer at a product or technology companyCloud platform experience, ideally within the Microsoft ecosystem, plus comfort with containerized environmentsFluency in more than one modern programming language, with Python and Java both in the mixA track record with relational databases and structured data at scaleCuriosity about applying AI tooling to real, ongoing engineering work rather than side projectsRetail, ecommerce, or high-transaction-volume experience is a nice-to-have, not a requirement